March 25, 2022 Lady Day, Nehemiah Grew, Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, The Violets of March Sarah Jio, and Filoli
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Botanical History On This Day
March 25 marks Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, honoring the Virgin Mary. The Marigold, or "Mary's gold," symbolizes strength, light, and lost love in the language of flowers. Both its flowers and leaves are edible and have medicinal skin-healing properties.
1641 Birth of Nehemiah Grew, English botanist known as the Father of Plant Anatomy. His detailed microscopic drawings of plants and pioneering study of pollen transformed the field of botanical science.
1890 On this day, João Barbosa Rodrigues established the Herbarium at the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, which now houses over 750,000 Brazilian plant specimens amid 350 acres of tropical flora and towering royal palms.
2021 The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, Asia’s largest tulip garden, officially opened in Kashmir. Its 74 acres flourish with 65 varieties of tulips and spring bulbs, drawing visitors annually during the blooming season.
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Immerse yourself in The Violets of March by Sarah Jio, a 2011 fiction novel weaving mystery, history, and love. Follow Emily Wilson as a diary from 1943 changes her life during a visit to Bainbridge Island in the Pacific Northwest.
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2020 At the start of the pandemic, Jim Salyards of the Filoli Center captured the silent beauty of spring blooms at Filoli’s gardens, which go unnoticed without visitors. Filoli’s name carries the motto “Fight, Love, Live,” embodying its role as a haven for both plants and people.
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