July 15, 2020 Climate-Change-Ready Trees, St. Swithin’s Day, Inigo Jones, John Wilson, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, Niagra Falls, Insect Poetry, How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work by Jeff Bredenberg, and William Robinson
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"Botanists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that "penny-pinching" evergreen species such as Christmas favorites, holly and ivy, are more climate change-ready in the face of warming temperatures than deciduous "big-spending" water consumers like birch and oak.
The reason for the detected differences in the evergreen and deciduous plant responses to climate change lies in their leaf texture. The leaves of evergreens are generally thicker and sturdier than deciduous plants in colder climates, while they are mostly similar in texture between the two groups in the warmer climates."
Botanical History On This Day
1573 Inigo Jones, the English architect who brought the Italian Renaissance to Britain and designed Covent Garden—the “finest barn in Europe,” as he joked—was born.
1751 John Wilson, the shoemaker-turned-botanist who nearly sold his cow to buy a botany book and once won a plant-naming contest with a “weed,” died.
1793 Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, educator and author of Familiar Lectures on Botany, whose mindfulness-infused writings influenced young Emily Dickinson, was born.
1885 Niagara Falls Restoration Opens, a moment celebrated by thousands after Frederick Law Olmsted advocated for preserving its once-magnificent forest beauty.
Unearthed Words
Poems celebrating the music of summer insects—from Keats’s grasshopper and cricket to Bodecker’s twilight mosquito. Poems About Insects – Keats & Bodecker
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Today's Botanic Spark
1838 William Robinson, the grand champion of the wild garden, was born, and as a young gardener, once walked overnight to Dublin after a greenhouse disaster, beginning the legendary career that reshaped horticulture.
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