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Revisiting Garden Dreams | The Daily Gardener

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own — spacious and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering.
But if I don't succeed, never mind — I've still got the dream.
— Ruskin Bond, Indian writer, children's author, and novelist, Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas

Botanical History On This Day

1964 Denys Zirngiebel, the Swiss-born florist and breeder who became America’s “Pansy King,” passed away; his Giant Swiss Pansies became Needham, Massachusetts’ floral emblem.

1925 Joseph Henry Maiden, champion of the Australian Wattle and Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, died after 43 years advancing the study of Eucalyptus and native flora.

1954 Albert Francis Blakeslee, geneticist and Datura devotee, revealed that molds could be male or female and pioneered the study of polyploidy in plants.

Unearthed Words

A tribute to the lyrical botanist who saw beauty in every season. Donald Culross Peattie

“Winter is a study in halftones, and one must have an eye for them or go lonely.”

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Read The Daily Gardener review of The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden

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Today's Botanic Spark

1845 Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland—the socialite who introduced the Dahlia to England—died today. Her bloom from Madrid still fills English gardens and hearts.

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