Posts Tagged ‘Switzerland’
November 18, 2020 Winter Garden Plants, William Shenstone, Leo Lesquereux, Asa Gray, Beverley Nichols, The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants by Kay Maguire, and Goldenrod
Today we celebrate the man who was a gardener and a poet and he inspired the trend toward the picturesque natural Landscape. We’ll also learn about the Swiss botanist who specialized in mosses. We’ll remember the birthday of the Father of American botany. We’ll take a look back at a popular November fruit – I…
Read MoreThe Boy and the Plant Explorers: The Power of Faith in the Pursuit of Plants
“Upon reaching the party of botanists the boy turned to the man who had made the proposal and said, ‘Sir, this is my father. I’ll go into the valley, if you’ll let mv father hold the rope!'” October 7, 1930 On this day, the newspaper in Union, Missouri, published a short story called “Unique Loyalty”…
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