July 16, 2020 Hanging Garden Ideas, Tarragon, Elijah Fenton, Camille Corot, Orville Redenbacher, July Flowers in Poetry, Scentual Garden by Ken Druse, and the Charles Clemon Deam Biography
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If you're living in a small apartment, there's really not a whole lot of room to make your greenery dreams come true. Unless you take things vertically, that is.
1. Plant wall
2. Hanging Bottles
3. Kokedama
4. Upcycled Stick
5. Wall Containers
6. Above-the-Bed Shelf
7. Doorway Garden
8. Wire Wall Grid
9. Scrap Wood
Did you know Tarragon is an Artemisia?
Botanical History On This Day
1730 Elijah Fenton, English poet, translator of The Odyssey with Alexander Pope, and author of “Ode to Spring” and “Variety of Nature,” died.
1796 Camille Corot, the French landscape painter whose tender reflections on nature inspired the Impressionists and resonate deeply with gardeners, was born in Paris.
1907 Orville Redenbacher, USDA scientist and co-creator of the light, fluffy “snowflake” hybrid popcorn that made his name a household word, was born.
Unearthed Words
A handful of quotes and poems celebrating the flowers and moods of the July garden—from devil’s claw and love-in-a-mist to marigolds that echo the sun. Flowers of the July Garden – selected quotes and poems
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Read The Daily Gardener review of Scentual Garden by Ken Druse
Buy the book on Amazon: Scentual Garden by Ken Druse
Today's Botanic Spark
1987 Charles C. Deam’s biography, telling the stories of Indiana’s legendary self-taught botanist and forester—complete with the tale of the pistol, the open window, and the rabbit that dared raid his garden—was announced in *The Indianapolis Star*.
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