November 20, 2020 What to Know Before Planting Bulbs, Penelope Hobhouse, Richard Fagan, August Henry Kramer, Martine Bailey, Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Judith Tankard, and the Misnaming of Lespedeza
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Botanical History On This Day
1929 Penelope Hobhouse, influential garden writer and designer, was born—her “rooms and bones” approach shaped gardens from Walmer Castle to the New York Botanical Garden and even Steve Jobs’s Woodside home.
1969 Richard William Fagan, the Oregon columnist behind Portland’s tiny Mill Ends Park (a single-rose “park” in a lamp-post hole), died; his whimsy helped keep Portland the true “Rose City.”
1989 Buried Blossoms—the St. Louis Post-Dispatch revealed the rediscovery of August Henry Kramer’s 493 luminous botanical watercolors, long hidden in family basements and moving boxes.
Unearthed Words
A November walk among frilled seed pods and copper light—seeking lessons from nature’s annual dying and renewal. Martine Bailey, from A Taste for Nightshade
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Today's Botanic Spark
1933 Lespedeza’s mistaken name—a Knoxville Journal note traced the genus’s misnaming to Michaux’s error or misprint for Governor Cespedes; too late to change now without botanical confusion.
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