July 28, 2020 The Garden and Mental Health, John Evelyn, Andrew Jackson Downing, Roger Tory Peterson, Women and the Garden, The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman, and Bill Cullina’s 2011 garden
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1662 John Evelyn, English gardener-writer and diarist, met the dowager Queen Henrietta Maria; the salad-loving author of Acetaria later saw his beloved garden ravaged by Peter the Great’s rowdy entourage—proof that a gardener’s work (and heartbreak) is never at an end.
1815 Andrew Jackson Downing, the visionary editor of The Horticulturist and early champion of Central Park and a tree-rich National Mall, died tragically after a steamboat fire—his landscape ideals living far longer than his 36 years.
1996 Roger Tory Peterson, naturalist and creator of the modern field guide, passed away; his keen notes—“purple finch: a sparrow dipped in raspberry juice”—taught generations to truly see birds.
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2011 Bill Cullina’s Perfect Pause — With weeds at bay and 29,000 new plants settling in, Cullina savored that brief mid-season stillness; years later, he would lead the Morris Arboretum, carrying that quiet joy into public gardens.
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