Posts Tagged ‘phlox’
Blossoming Ambitions: The Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Phlox Challenge
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 19, 1843 On this day, dear readers and fellow cultivators of beauty, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society unfurled its petals to the world, presenting an exhibition of flowers that would set tongues wagging…
Read MoreBunny Mellon: The Garden Sorceress Behind the White House Rose Garden
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. August 9, 1910 Today is the birthday of Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon, also known as Bunny Mellon, my dear garden confidantes. Like a rare bloom appearing unexpectedly in one’s carefully tended perennial…
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