Posts Tagged ‘Hydrangea’
September 21, 2021 Pruning Hydrangeas, H. G. Wells, Robert Montgomery, Fannie Flagg, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Uprooted by Page Dickey, and Stephen King
Today in botanical history, we celebrate an English writer, an American businessman and horticulturist, and an American writer and celebrity. We hear an excerpt from a top-rated book that became a hit movie starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that features the true story of leaving a…
Read MoreBotanist Carl Peter Thunberg’s Ingenious Method of Gathering Hydrangea Clippings in Japan
“Ever the clever end-rounder, Carl devised a strategy to obtain botanical samples: he bought a goat.” August 8, 1828 On this day, the botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, the father of South African botany, died. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus and worked as a botanist for the Dutch East India Company. After botanizing in…
Read MoreThe 1998 Surrey White Rock Hydrangea Blossom Festival Cancelled Due to Red Tape
“She was a little shocked two weeks ago when she sat down before the city’s special-events committee to be told by chairwoman Council Judy Higginbotham that her permit had been denied.” August 5, 1998 On this day, The Province out of Vancouver, British Columbia, shared an article by Peter Clough that caught my attention. The…
Read More