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Joseph Trimble Rothrock
A Call to the Great Outdoors April 9, 1839 Today is the birthday of the American environmentalist and botanist Joseph Trimble Rothrock. Plagued by sickness as a child, Joseph felt called by the great outdoors, “I just had to go to the woods. Throughout my entire life, I have sought the out of doors as…
Read MoreApril 9, 2021 Derek Jarman on Gardening, Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Phoebe Lankester, E. J. Scovell, How to Houseplant by Heather Rodino, and Sidewalk Chalk Tree Labels
Today we celebrate a botanist remembered as the Father of Forestry. We’ll also learn about a 19th-century female garden writer who loved wildflowers. We’ll recognize the broadcasting Anniversary of a popular Garden television program. We hear words from a poet admired by Vita Sackville West, and the poem compares the iris and the tulip. We Grow That…
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The Chief Agitator Happy Birthday, Joseph Trimble Rothrock (Books By This Author) was born in 1839. Plagued by sickness as a child, Rothrock felt the call of the great outdoors, “I just had to go to the woods. Throughout my entire life, I have sought the ‘out of doors’ as a refuge against impending physical…
Read MoreApril 9, 2019 Phebe Lankester, James Sowerby, Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Gardeners Question Time, Charles Baudelaire, Katie Daisy, the Toronto Archives, and Joseph Sauriol
Today’s thought is precisely that: How we think when we garden. Emerson wrote: Blame me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster in my hand Comes back laden with a thought. How wonderful our gardens are for thinking. Creatively. Therapeutically. Soulfully. Every bloom can be a vessel for an idea, a…
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