July 9, 2020 Magnolia Gardens White Bridge, Cottage Garden Style, Sowing Biennial Flower Seeds, Henry Wallace Johnston, Nikolay Vavilov, George Shull, Tomato Poetry, The Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach, and Samual Smithers aka Plantman

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Today we celebrate the man who named the lipstick tree and was known as Florida’s Burbank. We’ll also learn about the incredible work of an extraordinary Russian botanist who was tragically sentenced to death on this day in 1941. And we honor the life of the “Father of Hybrid Corn.” Today’s poetry is all about…

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The Ice Cream Vine: Colonel Johnston’s Tropical Wonderland

Colonel Henry Wallace Johnston

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 9, 1926 On this day, dear readers, the Green Bay Press-Gazette regaled its readers with a most extraordinary tale titled “Ice Cream Grown on Vine in the yard of Former Kentuckian.” One…

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