Posts Tagged ‘Arturo Gómez-Pompa’
October 21, 2019 Tropicals in Freezing Temps, Dill Pickle Pasta Salad, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Victor Lemoine, Alfred Nobel, Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Prayer for Autumn, A Way to Garden by Margaret Roach, Bagged Mulch Benefits, and the 1967 Flower Girl
Today we celebrate the poet who wrote lustrously of Kubla Kahn’s summer garden and the French flower breeder who made our favorite plants even more sumptuous with double-flowers. We learn about the descendant of Olaf Rudbeck, who sought to create a legacy of peace and the rainforest expert who wrote the flora of Mexico. We’ll…
Read MoreA Botanical Birthday: Celebrating Arturo Gómez-Pompa
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 21, 1934 On this day, dear gardeners, we celebrate the birth of a true luminary in the world of botany. Arturo Gómez-Pompa, that esteemed Mexican botanist, drew his first breath on this…
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