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Some gardeners love the show of it – the bloom, the flourish, the instant reward.

And some gardeners love the study of it.

The pages.

The marginal notes.

The penciled corrections.

The way a garden keeps teaching you, quietly, for a lifetime.

Today is for anyone who has ever stood still beside a plant and thought:

What are you, really?

What are you made of?

What do you mean?

What do you know that I don’t yet know?

Today’s Garden History

1501 Pietro Andrea Mattioli was born.

Pietro lived in a t…

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