November 1, 2020 Carl Linnaeus, Charles Eliot, John Lindley, Russell Page, Maggie Dietz, The Garden-Fresh Vegetable Cookbook by Andrea Chesman, and John Lindley’s Unmade Bed
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Botanical History On This Day
1783 Carl Linnaeus, the Father of Taxonomy, who gave us the binomial naming system and brought order to the botanical world, passed away.
1859 Charles Eliot, the Boston landscape architect and visionary advocate for public green space, was born.
1865 John Lindley, the botanist who saved Kew Gardens and lent his name to the Lindley Library, died.
1906 Russell Page, the British gardener and landscape architect best known for his book The Education of a Gardener, was born.
Unearthed Words
November brings a quiet beauty and reflection in this poem by Maggie Dietz.
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Today's Botanic Spark
John Lindley’s Unused Bed — a story of devotion and discipline from the young botanist who slept on hardwood floors to toughen himself for plant expeditions that, sadly, he never took.
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