Posts Tagged ‘Nellie McClung’
Suffrage in Bloom: The Remarkable Garden Life of Nellie McClung
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 17, 1916 It was on this day that a photograph preserved for posterity captured two titans of women’s suffrage—our own Nellie McClung standing shoulder to shoulder with the formidable British firebrand Emmeline…
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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