December 21, 2020 Six Healthy Winter Vegetables to Grow, Robert Brown, Rosemary Verey, Mistletoe, Growing Winter Weeds with Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The Gardens of Luciano Giubbilei by Andrew Wilson, and Lucien Daniel’s 1917 Watering Tip
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Botanical History On This Day
1773 Robert Brown, Scottish botanist and microscopist who identified Brownian motion, coined the cell “nucleus,” and distinguished angiosperms from gymnosperms; he also named the Hoya genus for his friend Thomas Hoy.
1918 Rosemary Verey, “Queen of the Traditional English Country Garden,” was born; her Barnsley House gardens (Laburnum Walk, potager) shaped late-20th-century garden taste and winter-garden aesthetics.
1997 Mistletoe Lore—a reminder that this partly parasitic plant’s name traces to “dung on a twig,” spread by birds, even as its folklore spread by kisses.
Unearthed Words
A winter kitchen brightened by cultivated “weeds” and wild flavors. “Gather Ye Wild Things” by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
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Today's Botanic Spark
1917 A capillary-wick watering method—linen strips drawing water drop by drop—was touted as the “right way to water plants.” Read today’s Botanic Spark
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