July 17, 2020 A Hot Tip for Hydrangeas, the B-Line Network for Pollinators, Charles Theodore Mohr, George William Russell, Arthur Koehler, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, Dog Days Poetry, How to Make a Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oakes, and Poppy Art at the Tower of London
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Botanical History On This Day
1901 Charles Theodore Mohr, the German-born pharmacist who became one of Alabama’s first botanists and painstakingly compiled the flora of the state, died, leaving behind tens of thousands of herbarium specimens.
1935 George William Russell (“AE”), the Irish poet, mystic, and editor of The Irish Homestead, who wrote of invisible beauty and “great spirits,” died.
1967 Arthur Koehler, xylotomist and pioneering forensic botanist whose expert testimony on a homemade wooden ladder helped solve the Lindbergh kidnapping, died.
1996 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, the visionary landscape architect who called garden design “the mother of all arts” and created works from the Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens to the unbuilt Moody Gardens scheme, died.
Unearthed Words
Reflections on the Dog Days of summer—hushed afternoons, jeweled July, sticky leaves, thunder in the air, and the strange pleasure of suffering the heat. Dog Days of Summer – a collection of quotes and poems
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Today's Botanic Spark
2014 Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, the haunting public art installation of 888,246 ceramic red poppies filling the moat of the Tower of London—one for every British and Colonial life lost in WWI—began to be installed.
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