May 11, 2022 Salvador Dalí, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Katharine Stewart, Margaret Visser, The Little Library Cookbook by Kate Young, and Turtle Hail

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Botanical History On This Day

1904 Salvador Dalí, the Catalan surrealist who “personified” his homeland’s landscape, later reimagined flowers in his fantastical Flordalí series—dahlias with unicorn horns and lilies that sing.

1907 Nathaniel Lord Britton arrived in Nantucket with lantern slides and left with praise for mayflowers and vigilant locals guarding rare heaths—ever the botanist-ambassador for wild beauty.

1923 Abriachan School Garden near Loch Ness paused its planting until walls were “sheep-proof”—a sturdy Highland lesson later charmingly recalled by Katharine Stewart.

1940 Margaret Visser was born; the cultural anthropologist of everyday life wrote lyrically on salt—rock and relic, preservative and paradox.

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1894 Turtle Hail in Bovina—a gopher turtle reportedly fell in an icy casing during a Mississippi hailstorm; a curious weather tale from the garden-gossip files.

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