May 6, 2022 Jean Senebier, Joseph Joubert, Sigmund Freud, Mirei Shigemori, The Layered Garden by David Culp, and Versailles
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2022 Compost Awareness Week, a gardener’s gentle reminder that yesterday’s peel becomes tomorrow’s peony—celebrating the alchemy that turns waste into soil.
1742 Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor-botanist who revealed that leaves drink in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, giving us the true office of foliage.
1754 Joseph Joubert, French moralist whose pensées include a valentine to gardeners: “All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.”
1856 Sigmund Freud, observer of human nature who confessed a late regret—gardening—while finding flowers “restful to look at.”
1925 Mirei Shigemori adopted his new name in homage to Millet, then spent a lifetime reshaping Japanese gardens with modern spirit and ancient stone.
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1682 Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles, setting the stage for the Sun King’s most theatrical creation: a garden of geometry, fountains, and glory.
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