Posts Tagged ‘Tuberose’

“McMahan has also created a gardener calendar with a list of seeds, including month-by-month instructions. The schedule was foundational to Thomas‘s gardening practice, and McMahan became his garden mentor.” August 12, 1806 On this day, Thomas Jefferson’s 24 double tuberoses, Polianthes tuberosa, were blooming.   Thomas had obtained them from Bernard McMahan’s nursery, and he…