Posts Tagged ‘Gorgeous George’
Judy Garland’s Hibiscus Gift to Gorgeous George: When Hollywood Met Wrestling in the Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 10, 1922 On this day, the illustrious Frances Ethel Gumm—later known to the adoring masses as Judy Garland—drew her first breath in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a quaint hamlet situated approximately 165 miles…
Read MoreJune 10, 2019 The Significance of Lilacs, National Herbs and Spices Day, Jardin des Plantes, Robert Brown, Gorgeous George and Judy Garland’s Hibiscus, Frances Theodora Parsons, Natural Selection, Dan Pearson, Box Cutters, and Inspiration from John Burroughs
My neighbor, up at our cabin, has this amazing copse of lilacs. We’ve become good friends, and he invited me to take some cuttings of his lilac as a gesture of goodwill. (He also gives me all of his jack-in-the-pulpits – but that’s another story.) Over time, lilacs have met different things to different people.…
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