December 15, 2020 How Front Gardens Boost Wellbeing, Margaret Cavendish, Joyce Winifred Vickery, The National Herb Garden, Donald Culross Peattie, Farming the Woods by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel, and Fenway Park Boston Ivy
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Botanical History On This Day
1673 Margaret Cavendish, the audacious 17th-century writer-naturalist who likened the mind to a garden and made a living by her pen, died; her floral metaphors—and critics—have echoed for centuries.
1908 Joyce Winifred Vickery, Australian botanist and forensic pioneer, was born; her plant and soil identifications helped solve the 1960 Graeme Thorne case and shaped modern forensic botany.
1978 The National Herb Garden began construction at the U.S. National Arboretum—2.5 acres of knot, rose, and themed herb gardens gifted by The Herb Society of America to inspire cooks and gardeners alike.
Unearthed Words
Winter’s “toy shop at night” and the quiet company of owls, mice, stems, buds, and bark. Donald Culross Peattie
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Today’s Botanic Spark
Boston Ivy ‘Fenway Park’—how a golden sport spotted near the ballpark by Peter Del Tredici became a beloved cultivar of Parthenocissus tricuspidata. Read today’s Botanic Spark
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