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A Legacy of Darwin Today is the birthday of the third son of Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin – known to his family as Frank. In 1887, Frank shared a portrait of his father in a book called life and letters of Charles Darwin. The letters revealed Darwin’s fluid prose and clarity. Frank said that correcting…

September 19, 2019 Early Fall at the Botanic Garden, Mildred Mathias, Orville Redenbacher, Francis Darwin, Dr. James Duke, Louise Seymour Jones, The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan, Moving Houseplants Back Indoors, Dr. Oliver Sacks and the New York Botanical Garden

There’s are some lines from a TS Eliot poem that go like this : “Oh, do not ask, ‘What is it?’ Let us go and make our visit.” If you’ve never visited your local botanic garden this time of year, you really should go. I have a friend who recently did this, and she posted…

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The Movement of Plants Today is the birthday of the third son of Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin – known to his family as Frank. Francis published the results of his work with his dad in a book called The Movement of Plants. The book details their experiments, which showed that young grass seedlings grow toward the light.…

August 16, 2019 Zucchini, Magness Holman, François-Andre Michaux, Serviceberry, Francis Darwin, Kenneth Woodbridge, Sylvia Plath, Sara Baume, Sue Monk Kid, Plant Parenting by Leslie Halleck, Bee Balm, and the Secret of Stourhead Garden

Are you swimming in zucchini yet? Emily Seftel, of The Tennessean, wrote an article in 2006 that was titled Gad zuks! – which I think is hilarious; we don’t use that term enough, do we? Anyway, the article started this way: “Zucchini, the summer squash, is the Rodney Dangerfield of the produce world it gets…