Botanical Style by Selina Lake

Botanical Style by Selina Lake

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Botanical Style by Selina Lake  This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is Inspirational decorating with nature, plants, and florals. In this book, stylist Selina Lake shows, “how to tap into the current trend for bringing nature, plants, and florals into the heart of the home.”…

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January 28, 2021 New Year Plant Hunt 2021, Peter Collinson, Paul Ecke, Thoughts on Spleenwort by Susan Wittig Albert, Botanical Style by Selina Lake, and the Best Job Ever: Creating Herb Gardens

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Today we celebrate a colonial botanist who introduced nearly 200 plants to British horticulture after sourcing them from his good friend John Bartram in America. We’ll also learn about the man who mastered growing the Poinsettia and established it as the official plant of Christmas. We’ll hear some wonderful thoughts on the Common Daisy (Bellis…

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Natural Living Style by Selina Lake

Natural Living Style by Selina Lake

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Natural Living Style by Selina Lake This book came out in March of 2019 and the subtitle is Inspirational ideas for a beautiful and sustainable home. In her review of this book Julie from Try Small Things said, “They say change starts at home. What I’ve come away…

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July 30, 2020 A Call to Decolonise Botanical Collections, Castor Bean, Emily Brontë, Ellis Rowan, the Arkansas State Flower, Alfred Joyce Kilmer, Natural Living Style by Selina Lake and Disney’s Flowers and Trees

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Today we celebrate the author and poet who wrote some beautiful garden verses. We’ll also learn about a magnificent Australian artist and botanical illustrator, and her art is now part of Australia’s national library. We celebrate the selection of the State Flower for Arkansas – and the very cute story of how it came to…

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