Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
Life Among the Texas Flora by Minetta Altgelt Goyne
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Life Among the Texas Flora by Minetta Altgelt Goyne This book came out in 1991, and the subtitle is Ferdinand Lindheimer’s Letters to George Engelmann. In this book, Minetta shares the treasure of these letters between two marvelous 19th-century botanists. In 1979, Minetta was asked to translate 32 letters…
Read MoreDecember 22, 2020 Tree Ferns, David Hosack, George Eliot, William B. Arnett, David Mas Masumoto, The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook by Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman and Lady Bird Johnson
Today we celebrate the botanist and doctor who established the nation’s first public botanical garden. We’ll also learn about the English Victorian author who loved roses. We’ll recognize the inspiring former president and owner of Tulsa Greenhouse and Four State Wholesale. We’ll hear an excerpt about pruning from a peach farmer. We Grow That Garden…
Read MoreCelebrate the Signature Grape of Texas on Tempranillo Day
“Tempranillo has found a home in Texas, and it has grown to be the state’s signature grape.Tempranillo is arguably the signature red wine of Texas.” November 14th Today is International Tempranillo Day. Tempranillo is made with a black grape variety grown to make full-bodied red wines in Spain. It’s now the 3rd most widely planted…
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