Posts Tagged ‘Hal Borland’
May 14, 2019 Garden Experts, Mary Delany, Edward Jenner, John Cushnie, Hal Borland, Ruth Hayden, Slowing Growth in Shade, and the Mayapple
Most gardeners share a common secret: they never feel like they know enough about gardening to call themselves an expert. If you feel this way after years of gardening, you’re not alone. Over two centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to his friend, the painter Charles Wilson Peale. He’s lamenting the limitations of his…
Read MoreThe Mayapple or Mandrake: Symbolism, Fruit, and Botanical History
“In a painful time of my life, I went often to a wooded hillside where Mayapples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me.” May 14, 1900 On this day, nature writer Harold Glenn Borland was born. While researching Hal Borland, I discovered what he…
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