January 15, 2021 How to Grow and Care for Spirea Shrubs, the British Museum, Richard Buxton, Identifying Wildlife in the Winter Garden, A Year at Brandywine Cottage by David Culp, and The Garden of a Commuters Wife: Mabel Osgood Wright
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Botanical History On This Day
1759 Opening of the British Museum, seeded by Sir Hans Sloane’s vast natural history collection. Built from a lifetime of exchanging herbaria and curiosities, the museum became a civic treasure where the world’s botany, fossils, and artifacts could be studied in one place.
1786 Birth of Richard Buxton, the Lancashire shoemaker-botanist who taught himself to read and roamed the countryside identifying plants in situ. His pocket guide to the flora around Manchester made him a local legend—proof that keen eyes and steady feet can build a botanist.
Unearthed Words
Today’s excerpt is a quiet tutorial in noticing from
Beth Chatto’s January pages in Beth Chatto’s Garden Notebook.
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Read my review of A Year at Brandywine Cottage by David Culp—six chapters of practical beauty: planting notes, cutting-garden ideas, recipes, and month-by-month rituals drawn from a beloved Pennsylvania garden.
Buy the book on Amazon: A Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty, and Blooms
Today's Botanic Spark
1906 A newspaper finally unmasks Mabel Osgood Wright as the voice behind the bestseller The Garden of a Commuter’s Wife. The Audubon pioneer, photographer, and native-plant advocate turned everyday observations into literature—and built Birdcraft, the nation’s first private bird sanctuary.
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