Posts Tagged ‘John McLaren’
Remembering Scottish Gardener John McLaren who tended San Francisco’s Eden: Golden Gate Park
“For over thirty years, he had served as the park superintendent. John and wife lived in a little lodge nestled in the park.” June 26, 1922 On this day, The Nevada State Journal published an article from San Francisco. The headline was: “Laws are changed to help gardener…” The gardener in question was the…
Read MoreJune 26, 2019 Moving a Bumblebee Nest, Charles Newbold, Charles Christopher Perry, The Rolling Stones, Margaret Morse Nice, Annette Wynne, Diana Wells, Planting Sunflower Seeds, and San Francisco Gardener John McLaren
Have you ever needed to move a bumblebee nest? We discovered a nest under the basketball hoop on the driveway when the guys came to seal coat. To move it, I waited until dusk. Then I grabbed a terra cotta pot that was a little bigger than the nest… and my pizza peel from the…
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