Posts Tagged ‘Sugar Maple’
Botanist Spies Blunder: New Canadian Currency Features a Norway Maple – Not a Sugar Maple
“They should have drawn it differently… because the Maple that they’ve drawn is quite clearly a Norway Maple.” January 18, 2013 On this day, Reuters published an article about the new Canadian twenty dollar bill. The article, by Randall Palmer, was called “Canada Put ‘Wrong’ Maple Leaf on New Canadian 20-dollar Bill.” Here’s an excerpt:…
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2021 Say No Thanks to Garden Shortcuts, Alan Alexander Milne, Rudyard Kipling, Thoughts on Thistles, A Year at Kew by Rupert Smith, and the Maple on the Canadian Dollar Bill
Today we celebrate the man who bought a forested property and wrote Winnie the Pooh. We’ll also learn about the poet who found fame and then gardening on a grand scale. We’ll hear some wonderful words about thistles. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a behind-the-scenes look at one of the World’s top gardens. And…
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