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Kim Wilde
An Outdoor Connection Today is the birthday of the pop singer Kim Wilde who was born on this day in 1960. After a successful music career, thanks to hits like “Kids in America” and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” Wilde bought a 16th-century barn and began gardening at the age of 30. Her move to…
Read MoreNovember 18, 2019 The National Trust Cover Photo, The Feminine History of Botany, William Shenstone, Leo Lesquereux, Asa Gray, Kim Wilde, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell, Boot Tray reboot and Cranberry Frenzy in 1843
Today we celebrate the gardener who turned his farm into a picturesque wonder and the Swiss botanist who survived a fall from a mountaintop that foreshadowed a life of highs and lows. We’ll learn about the American botanist Darwin confided in two years before he shared his theory with the rest of the world and…
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