February 10, 2021 New Owners at Barton Springs Nursery, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, A Sense of the Soil, Cottage Gardens by Claire Masset, and Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder the Naturalist

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Today we celebrate a botanist who gave Meriwether Lewis a crash course in botany. We’ll also learn about a poet who wrote some touching poems that incorporated the natural world. We hear some words about getting the garden ready for growing – straightforward advice on getting started. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book…

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Remembering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Writer, Gardener, and Naturalist

“One of the reasons so many of us have a soft spot in our hearts for the Little House books is because Laura was so descriptive; she was a natural storyteller. She was also a little naturalist on the prairie.” February 10, 1957 On this day, the American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder died.   One…

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February 10, 2020 Midwinter Trees, Plant Health Resolutions, Jan Gronovius, Benjamin Smith Barton, Winifred Mary Letts, Jack Heslop-Harrison, Snow Poems, A Land Remembered by Patrick D Smith, Wood Markers, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Today we celebrate the man who suggested naming the Twinflower for Linnaeus and the botanist who gave Meriwether Lewis a crash course in botany. We’ll learn about the English writer who wrote, that, “God once loved a garden we learn in holy writ and seeing gardens in the spring, I well can credit it.” And…

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