Posts Tagged ‘Lajos Kossuth’
Botanist Edwin Hunt and the Hungarian Revolutionary Lajos Kossuth: Finding Comfort in Nature
“Happy those who love nature, Her they shall find, And shall not find but her in the days of adversity.” June 17, 1869 On this day, the botanist Edwin Hunt collected the last known specimen of Arethusa bulbosa in the old Oriskany swamp in New York. While researching Edwin Hunt, I found an article…
Read MoreJune 17, 2019 Reusing Potting Soil, Edwin Hunt, James Weldon Johnson, Alexander Braun, Nellie McClung, the University of Wisconsin’s Arboretum, Emily Dickinson, Joanne Shaw, The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry, Geranium Care, and Lajos Kossuth
Do you change the oil in your window boxes and containers every spring? You really don’t need to – I don’t. Here’s what I do: I remove about a quarter to a third of the soil in my containers, and I put it in my potting soil bin. Then, I add a little perlite and…
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