January 8, 2021 The Three Friends of Winter, Eliza Ridgely, Walter Tennyson Swingle, Dig For Victory January Advice, A Place For Us by Harriet Evans, and Herb Wagner of Wagner Tree Fame
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Botanical History On This Day
1828 Eliza Ridgely marries into the Hampton estate of Maryland, where she transformed the gardens with Victorian carpet bedding, exotic specimens, and a marble urn collection. She cultivated grandeur with citrus in her orangery, a Lebanon cedar from a seedling in a shoebox, and irrigation so advanced that her flowers thrived when neighbors’ gardens wilted.
1892 Birth of Walter Tennyson Swingle, agricultural botanist and plant wizard. Swingle gave California its date palms, hybridized citrus into citranges and limequats, and saw potential where others saw only desert—turning the Coachella Valley into orchards of golden fruit.
Unearthed Words
Today’s excerpt on January in the garden is from a Dig for Victory Pamphlet, January 1945
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Today's Botanic Spark
2000 Death of Warren “Herb” Wagner, Jr., fern expert and pioneer of modern systematics. His “Wagner trees” shaped the way scientists classify evolutionary history. Herb had a wry gardener’s wit, once saying: “Deer in the winter are nature’s closest thing to actual zombies. They chew everything in their path.”
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