April 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

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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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Phebe Lankester

Phebe Lankester

Penelope the Flower Lover #OTD British botanist, author, pragmatist, and survivor Phebe Lankester (Books By This Author) died today in 1900 and was born tomorrow in 1825. Born Phebe Pope, she married the naturalist Edwin Lankester – a coroner and medical reformer. They had eleven children. When Phebe was 49, Edwin died; she had to…

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April 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

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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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