Posts Tagged ‘Sakura’
February 11, 2021 Gardening for Health, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Should Botany Be Taught In Schools, Saving the Sakura, Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson, and Garden-Inspired Verses About Love
Today we celebrate a woman who was insatiable when it came to plants, and she is remembered forever with the Portland Rose. We’ll also learn about a famous speech given at a Vermont botanical club about why botany wasn’t taught in schools – and the reasons were pretty spot on. We hear a story about…
Read MoreBuffalo’s Pink Paradise: The Cherry Blossom Festival Blooms
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 1, 2019 On this day, dear readers, the city of Buffalo, New York, bursts into a symphony of pink and white as it kicks off its annual Cherry Blossom Festival. From May…
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