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Charles Totty
Fifth Avenue Flowers On this day in 1913, the horticulturist Charles Totty received a medal from the New York Horticultural Society for developing a new rose called “Shell Pink Shawyer.” Totty immigrated to the United States from England. He was known as CH to his friends Totty was a shrewd businessman. On April Fools’ Day…
Read MoreOctober 31, 2019 Four Herbs for Women, 10 Black Foliage Plants, John Evelyn, John Keats, Andrew Jackson Downing, Richard Morris Hunt, Charles Totty, The Best of Thymes by Marge Clark, Cover Crops and Short Sunflowers
Today we celebrate the gardener who had his home and garden trashed by the Russian Czar and the poet who wrote one of his most famous poems under the plum tree in his garden. We’ll learn about the American Landscape Architect who never lived to see the big park he dreamed of, and we’ll learn…
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