July 20, 2020 Thomas Rainer’s Garden Tips, David Nelson, Gregor Mendel, Daylilies, Brian Shaw, Katharine White, The Garden as Sanctuary, Shrubs by Andy McIndoe, and Katharine White
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Unconventional Wisdom: 8 Revolutionary Ideas for Your Garden from Thomas Rainer - Gardenista
“When you meet landscape architect Thomas Rainer he comes across as a pleasant, mild-mannered fellow… not at all the type to be traveling around the world, as he does, spouting revolutionary ideas calculated to upend years and years of conventional gardening wisdom.
As he writes in his preface to Planting in a Post-Wild World, the 2015 book he wrote with Claudia West, his ideas come from his time as a boy in suburban Birmingham, Alabama where he spent countless happy hours roaming a stretch of indigenous Piedmont forest near his home."
Botanical History On This Day
1789 David Nelson, Cook’s quiet botanist, died at sea after the Bounty mutiny; Bligh honored him with naval rites and later named Tasmania’s Mount Nelson for him.
1822 Gregor Mendel was born; in a monastery garden, he “gave peas a chance,” sowing the laws of heredity with 30,000 plants and the language of dominant and recessive traits.
1960 Daylilies Declared “Tops”—the Chicago Tribune praised their hardiness, weed-suppressing foliage, and effortless grace for problem corners and weekend gardeners.
1974 Brian Shaw, a 21-year-old newlywed, was murdered by the IRA; a florist bill still in his pocket turned flowers into a heartbreaking footnote.
1977 Katharine S. White died; the New Yorker editor whose Onward and Upward in the Garden bloomed posthumously—lovingly prefaced by her husband, E. B. White.
Unearthed Words
A trio of grateful garden devotions—from Frost’s “God’s Garden” to R. H. Swaney’s seed-words and Emerson’s thanksgiving. Sanctuary Among the Flowers
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Today's Botanic Spark
E. B. White, Elizabeth Lawrence, and a Daffodil Named ‘Supreme’—tender letters after Katharine’s passing, sapling elms and oaks planted for remembrance, and a gardener “always out of control” in bloom time.
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