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Howard Scott Gentry
Agave Man November 13, 1982 On this day newspaper shared a great story about the author of “Agaves of Continental North America,” Howard Scott Gentry: “This elder statesman of the botanical world [is] a first-class charmer when you get …. to his subject;… his love for the wilds of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, …the…
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Agaves of America November 13, 1982 On this day newspaper shared a great story about the author of “Agaves of Continental North America,” Howard Scott Gentry: “This elder statesman of the botanical world [is] a first-class charmer when you get …. to his subject;… his love for the wilds of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, …the…
Read MoreNovember 13, 2020 Frederick Lueders, Walter Bartlett, Howard Scott Gentry, Jane Powers, Candace Bushnell, Jeff Cox, P. Allen Smith’s Seasonal Recipes from the Garden, and the 1916 Chrysanthemum Show
Today we celebrate the German-American botanist who lost all of his botanical work in the Columbia River. We’ll also learn about the man who started the Bartlett Arboretum. We’ll remember the Agave expert who never wanted a desk job. And we’ll take a look back at an article about the relationship between royalty and the…
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Agave Knowledge Today is the birthday of Howard Scott Gentry who was born on this day in 1903. A 1982 newspaper article shared a great story about Howard, saying: “This elder statesman of the botanical world [is] a first-class charmer when you get …. to his subject;… his love for the wilds of Sonora and…
Read MoreDecember 10, 2019 Wild about Weeds, Botany at the Bar, Sweet Potatoes, Emily Dickinson, Howard Scott Gentry, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Carl English, A Year in Our Gardens by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy, Herb Drier, and The Ungrateful Garden
Today we celebrate the gardener poet known for writing “hope is the thing with feathers”, and the man who became the world authority on agaves. We’ll learn about the Victorian botanist who was the first to speak in favor of Darwin’s theory and the man who created the Ballard Lock Garden in Seattle. We’ll hear…
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Agaves of Continental North America On this day in 1982, the newspaper shared a great story about the author of “Agaves of Continental North America,” Howard Scott Gentry. “This elder statesman of the botanical world [is] a first-class charmer when you get …. to his subject;… his love for the wilds of Sonora and Chihuahua,…
Read MoreNovember 13, 2019 Coleus Cuttings, Air Plants, Make a Christmas Seedhead Wreath, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frederick Lueders, Chrysanthemum Show, Howard Scott Gentry, Square Foot Gardening 3rd Edition, Houseplant Spa Day, and Bedding Plants as Wealth Indicators
Today we celebrate the writer who dedicated his book called A Child’s Garden of Verses to his childhood nurse and the German botanist who lost all of his work in the Columbia River. We’ll learn about the big chrysanthemum show of 1916 in our Nation’s capital and the botanist who was one with Agaves. We’ll…
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