November 15, 2024 Garden Musings, William Wordsworth, Georgia O’Keefe, Around the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning, and Empress Josephine’s Les Liliacées by Pierre-Joseph Redouté
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Botanical History On This Day
1806 William Wordsworth received a life-changing invitation from Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont to design and build a winter garden in an old gravel quarry. The unusual request inspired what Wordsworth later described as the longest letter he ever wrote, a garden design that wove poetry and horticulture together.
1887 Georgia O'Keeffe was born. Over a career spanning decades, she created more than 900 works of art, forever changing how we see flowers through her bold, modernist vision and monumental floral paintings.
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Today's Botanic Spark
1985 On this day, a remarkable piece of botanical history changed hands at Sotheby’s. Empress Josephine’s personal copy of Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s botanical watercolors for Les Liliacées, “The Lilies,” was sold, a reminder that gardens, like art, endure long after their caretakers are gone.
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