January 11, 2021 Regenerative Grower New Year’s Resolutions, William Curtis, Plough Monday, Rosemary Verey’s Wintersweet, A Place to Call Home by James Farmer, and the Persistent Peter Forsskål
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Botanical History On This Day
1746 Birthday of William Curtis, English botanist, entomologist, and founder of the beloved Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. His Lambeth garden became London’s first botanic garden, and his illustrated periodical—created for “ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners”—made plant knowledge accessible and fashionable.
1850 Birthday of Joseph Charles Arthur, pioneer American mycologist and expert on plant rusts. At Purdue, he assembled a herbarium of over 40,000 rust specimens—so valuable he once spirited them home in moving vans to protect his claim. Today, the Arthur Herbarium remains a cornerstone of fungal research.
2021 Today is Plough Monday, the traditional start of the agricultural year in England. Farmers once hauled their ploughs to church for a blessing before turning soil again after the Twelve Days of Christmas—symbolic of work resuming and fields waiting to be sown.
Unearthed Words
Here’s an excerpt about Wintersweet from Rosemary Verey’s A Countrywoman’s Year
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Read my review of A Place to Call Home by James Farmer. Eleven homes reveal timeless charm where interiors and gardens intertwine—warm spaces layered with florals, art, and stories of hospitality.
Buy the book on Amazon: A Place to Call Home: Timeless Southern Charm
Today's Botanic Spark
1732 Birthday of Peter Forsskål, Swedish-Finnish naturalist and Linnaeus’s student. On the doomed Danish expedition to Arabia, he meticulously documented plants with cultural sensitivity. Linnaeus honored his persistence with Forsskaolea tenacissima, a tenacious nettle plant that endures like Peter’s brief but brilliant legacy.
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