May 12, 2022 Charles-Joseph Lamoral, Edward Lear, Florence Nightingale, Andreas Schimper, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home by P. Allen Smith, and Care Of Garden Hose by BF Goodrich in 1943

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Botanical History On This Day

1735 Charles-Joseph de Ligne fanned the flames of horticultural zeal, declaring he’d “inflame the whole world” with a taste for gardens—ever the aristocratic evangelist of green delight.

1812 Edward Lear was born; the prince of nonsense gave gardeners a lily-lodger limerick and a cucumber quip—proof that botany and whimsy are old companions.

1820 Florence Nightingale was born; the Lady with the Lamp pressed flowers as a girl, prescribed blossoms for morale, and favored foxgloves—her legacy now honored in gardens and a namesake rose.

1856 A. F. W. Schimper was born; the pioneering phytogeographer coined “tropical rainforest” and “sclerophyll,” sketching early maps of plants and climate before malaria stilled his pen.

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1943 Victory-Garden Hoses & the Nine-Point Plan—wartime wisdom on keeping rubber hoses alive when every drop (and every gasket) mattered.

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