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Ann-Marie Powell talks lockdown and sharing her garden.

"No one is more surprised at the success of her lockdown project than Ann-Marie Powell. The popularity of her daily Instagram Live posts from her garden is, she says, simply astonishing.

Broadcast live every lunchtime, My Real Garden followed Ann-Marie, who trained at Capel Manor, as she shaped her lawn, planted fruit and chose plants for shady spots. There's been advice on watering and deadheading to keep summer displays going."

What's the Difference Between Oregano and Marjoram?

If you've grown both, you know they look quite similar, and they are often confused for one another. But when it comes to flavor and taste, they are easy to tell apart.

Oregano tends to be earthy, pungent, and spicy. It can easily overpower the other flavors in a dish. To subdue the pungency, cooks recommend using the dried form of oregano.

On the other hand, marjoram is milder. Use that alliteration to help you remember, Mild Marjoram. Marjoram's flavor is more refined; it's floral and woodsy. Because marjoram is sweeter and milder, chefs recommend using fresh marjoram rather than dried for cooking.

Botanical History On This Day

1744 Mary Delany, who wrote enchanting letters from her Dublin garden and later became the famed creator of nearly 1,000 botanical “paper mosaics,” described the wild beauty and hidden delights of her new home.

1888 Caroline “Carrie” Dormon, Louisiana naturalist, botanist, author, preservationist, and steward of Briarwood Nature Preserve, was born.

1889 Leslie Coulson, the English WWI poet who wrote poignantly of flowers blooming above the fallen, was born.

1920 John Macoun, one of Canada’s leading botanists and a passionate childhood plant-lover, died at age 90.

Unearthed Words

A poem of July—power outages, lavender, wrens, lettuces, and childhood wonder—captured in gentle, observant verse. Keeping July by Joanna O’Sullivan

Grow That Garden Library™

Read The Daily Gardener review of Garden to Table by the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen

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Today's Botanic Spark

1933 Robert Fenton, the Pennsylvania landscape architect who once planted a 25-foot ash tree without permission—removing a parking meter in the process—was born. His guerrilla planting made headlines when the city cut the tree down… only for another tree to take its place years later.

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