July 27, 2020 Piet Oudolf Finds Solace in the Garden, Jeanne Baret, Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Hewett Cottrell Watson, William T. Hutchins, Silly Garden Poems, Rustic Garden Projects by Marianne Svärd Häggvik, and Bernadette Cozart.
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Landscape designer Piet Oudolf on finding solace in the garden | PBS NewsHour
"I think every day is an experience, because there's always something you will like, and it's not only about the plants. It's also about the light and the movement.
Once you touch the plants and just start to work with them, there's a big chance that you get lost in the world of plants and that you want to experience more of gardening.
You can think while you're gardening. You can think about life and how to follow up after this crisis.
But at least people want to go to places where I normally would go to, to gardens and to parks. And I think that people will realize that we, as human beings, need that, to feel good.
What I say for people that just start gardening, I think anything that you see at the garden center that you like can be a good start — to become a serious gardener."
Botanical History On This Day
1740 Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, disguised herself to join Philibert Commerson’s expedition and collected the tropical vine later named Bougainvillea in honor of their commander.
1810 Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, railroad magnate and plantsman, was born; his Wellesley estate boasted America’s first topiary garden and a famed pinetum, drawing visitors by the thousands to Lake Waban.
1864 Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, later the revitalizing curator of Harvard’s Asa Gray Herbarium and founding editor of Rhodora, died on this day.
1881 Hewett Cottrell Watson, father of British plant geography, died; his insights primed the way for ecology and earned Darwin’s admiration after the publication of On the Origin of Species.
1895 Rev. William T. Hutchins, Burpee’s sweet pea evangelist and author of All About Sweet Peas, was featured in print—helping spark America’s love affair with Lathyrus odoratus.
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1949 Bernadette Cozart, founder of the Greening of Harlem Coalition, was born; her vision brought flower gardens and green spaces into the urban fabric, allowing children to “see things grow” right where they lived.
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