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Isabella Preston
Dean of Hybridists Today is the 55th anniversary of the death of Canada’s first professional woman plant breeder – a woman called the “Dean of Hybridists” and the “Grand Lady of Canadian Horticulture” – Isabella Preston. When Vita Sackville-West first heard her name, she famously acknowledged, “I must confess I don’t know anything about Miss…
Read MoreJanuary 31, 2020 Calendula Tincture, Growing Artichokes, Melvin Bergeson, the American Iris Society, Isabella Preston, Hazel Schmoll, Horace Hagedorn, Bernard Barton, Life List by Olivia Gentile, Wooden Letters, Prospect Cottage and Derek Jarman
Today we celebrate the man who found a splendid crabapple growing in his nursery and the anniversary of a society that celebrates the flower of the rainbow, We’ll learn about the “Grand Lady of Canadian Horticulture” and a Colorado State botanist who fought to protect the Columbine. Today’s Unearthed Words, we hear simple poems from…
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Grand Lady of Canadian Horticulture Today is the birthday of Canada’s first professional woman plant breeder – a woman called the “dean of hybridists” and the “Grand Lady of Canadian Horticulture” – Isabella Preston, who was born on this day in 1881. Vita Sackville-West once acknowledged, “I must confess I don’t know anything about Miss…
Read MoreSeptember 4, 2019 The Must Go Container, Henry Wise, George London, Alfred Rehder, Isabella Preston, Willa Cather, Geoffrey Hill, Gardener’s Guide to Compact Plants by Jessica Walliser, Ordering Spring Bulbs, Charles Joseph Sauriol, and Plants Growing Together
I had to chuckle the other day as I was putting together my fall containers. The first thing I do when I transition from one season to another is determining which plants are salvageable – the ones that have enough gas to go another season. One of my pots ended up being a bit of…
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