April 12, 2022 Georg Joseph Kamel, William Kent, Gladys Taber, National Licorice Day, The Five Minute Garden by Laetitia Maklouf, and Clare Leighton

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee   Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community   Botanical History 1661 Birth of Georg Joseph Kamel (“CAH-mel”), Czech pharmacist, naturalist, and Jesuit missionary. Georg was born in Brno (pronounced “burr-no”), the city…

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November 23, 2020 Fibonacci in the Garden, Nathaniel Ward, Alexander Anderson, Roald Dahl, Gladys Taber, The Farm by Ian Knauer, and How to Care for Your Poinsettia

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Today we celebrate one of the first successful uses of the Wardian Case on a ship in 1833. We’ll also learn about the Minnesota botanist who discovered a fun new cereal. We’ll remember the beloved British children’s author who wrote in his garden shed. We salute the various ways trees drop their leaves… or not…

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Perhaps it is All Temperament

Perhaps it is All Temperament

by Gladys Taber, American writer and columnist Weather conditions are the same for all of them, one is no more sheltered than another, and they are the same age, judging by their size. I like to think one tree decides to keep summer a bit longer and one impetuously responds to the tide of incoming…

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Walking Down the Country Road

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by Gladys Taber Walking down the country road this morning, I noticed the swamp in late fall has lovely colors. The chalky purple of the wild blackberry canes, the cinnabar of frosted weeds, and the garnet of oak seedlings seem like music. Farther on, the cutover fields have variations on the theme of brown, from…

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