Posts Tagged ‘James Gates Percival’
September 15, 2021 The Torture Orchard, James Gates Percival, Frances Garnet Wolseley, Marjorie Harris, Lauren Oliver, The World was My Garden by David Fairchild, and Ripen Tomatoes Fast
Today in botanical history, we celebrate an American doctor, a Viscountess, and a Canadian fiction writer. We hear a little excerpt about September – such a milestone month for so many people. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one of America’s greatest explorers. And then we’ll wrap things up with tomato tips…
Read MoreThe Poet’s Garden: James Gates Percival and the Language of Flowers
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: September 15, 1795 On this day, we find ourselves transported back to when James Gates Percival, that most fascinating polymath of American letters, drew his first breath. While history may remember him as a surgeon and geologist, it is his poetic musings on the…
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