November 17, 2022 Solway Moss, Henry Muhlenberg, Ethel Zoe Bailey, Shelby Foote, Rosa by Peter Kukielski, and Archibald Lampman
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Botanical History On This Day
1771 On this day, heavy rains caused the ancient raised peat bog known as the Solway Moss to burst its earthen banks. The flood of dark, oozing peat swept down into the valley, swallowing four hundred acres of farmland. For weeks afterward, the land looked more like a desolate sea than fertile ground—a haunting reminder of the power locked within landscapes we take for granted.
1785 Birth of Henry Ernst Muhlenberg, American Lutheran pastor and botanist. Muhlenberg devoted his life to cataloging plants in Pennsylvania, and his name endures in the genus Muhlenbergia, those graceful, airy grasses beloved in modern gardens for their shimmering autumn color.
1889 Birth of Ethel Zoe Bailey, American botanist. Ethel worked for over half a century at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, building one of the most extensive horticultural libraries in the world. Her meticulous indexing made plant knowledge accessible to countless researchers, gardeners, and dreamers.
1916 Birth of Shelby Foote, American writer, historian, and journalist. Though best known for his sweeping Civil War history, Foote often wrote of the Southern landscape with the tenderness of a gardener, weaving natural imagery into the fabric of his storytelling.
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1861 Birth of Archibald Lampman, Canadian poet and naturalist. Often called “the Canadian Keats,” Lampman wrote with exquisite sensitivity about meadows, woodlands, and wildflowers, reminding us that poetry, like gardening, is an act of seeing the extraordinary in the everyday.
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