Aristides Simoni

Aristides Simoni

Nature’s Doctor On this day in 1868 Aristides Simoni was born.    He helped discover the role of the mosquito in the transmission of yellow fever.   This post was featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: helping gardeners find their roots, one story at a time Aristides Simoni

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June 3, 2019 Half-Hardy Plants, Aristides Simoni, David Douglas, Josephine Baker, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Kiftsgate Court Garden, Vanessa Berridge, Perennials for Wet Areas, Ardenoir, and Charlotte to Grace O’Brien

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Half-Hardy Plants. That’s a term you don’t run into very often – but when you do, it can be confusing. Just this morning, I swung by a garden center to check out their clearance plants, and I ended up chatting with a gardener who had running to a label that had that term: Half-Hardy Plants.…

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