The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives. The author Amy Stewart said, “Do flowers need a reason? In The Reason for Flowers,Stephen Buchmann reminds us that flowers exist…

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July 3, 2020 Being More Water-efficient, Dog Days, Gilbert Laing Meason, Michael Keens, Lambertus Bobbink, William Henry Davies, The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann, and Calvin R. Sperling

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Today we officially welcome the Dog Days – they start on this day and last for the next 40 days. We’ll also learn about the Landscape Architect who invented the term “landscape architecture.” We celebrate the market gardener from Isleworth who exhibited the first large-scale cultivated strawberry at the Royal Horticultural Society on this day…

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