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  1. From his journal, as he wrote it:

    “The quamash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom and at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water.”
    – Meriwether Lewis, June 12, 1806 (Lewis & Clark Expedition).

    lewis-clark.org/sciences/plant

    #DeerProof #Bulbs
    #gardening #NativePlants #Horticulture #Botany #GardenHistory #Camassia #GardeningMastodon #MeriwetherLewis

  2. #November 22, 1819
    #OTD #George #Eliot,#English #Victorian #Author, is born.

    Eliot wrote,

    I wish the #Sky would #Rain down #Roses...
    Why will it not?

    Then all the valleys would be #Pink and white,
    & #soft to tread on.

    Eliot loved the idea of #Raining roses but knew it was only a #Dream.

    She wrote,

    It never #Rains roses.

    When we want more roses, we must #Plant more...

    #Gardenpodcast #podcast #Gardening #Garden #Flowers
    #Rose #GardenHistory #GardenLiterature #Rosarian #Perfume #Aroma