SummerHome Garden in Wash. Park cultivates drought-tolerant plants landscape https://www.allforgardening.com/1926041/summerhome-garden-in-wash-park-cultivates-drought-tolerant-plants-landscape/ #CommunityGardenDenver #DenverBotanicGardens #EndemicPlantsColorado #GardeningWashington #horticulturist #NonprofitGardeningProjects #PublicPocketPark #SummerhomeGarden #SustainableGardening #TranquilOutdoorSpaces #WashParkNeighborhood #washington
#horticulturist — Public Fediverse posts
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9 Fast-Growing Fruit Trees You Can Grow Indoors, According to Gardening Experts https://www.allforgardening.com/1896297/9-fast-growing-fruit-trees-you-can-grow-indoors-according-to-gardening-experts/ #CitrusPlant #credit #ErinScottberg #garden #gardening #GettyImages #GrowingFruitTrees #horticulturist
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5 Houseplants a Garden Pro Says You Should Never Move Outside, Especially in Summer https://www.allforgardening.com/1889776/5-houseplants-a-garden-pro-says-you-should-never-move-outside-especially-in-summer/ #AfricanViolets #credit #garden #GettyImages #horticulturist #houseplants #JustinHancock
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How to Keep Squirrels Out of Potted Plants, According to Gardening Experts https://www.allforgardening.com/1798686/how-to-keep-squirrels-out-of-potted-plants-according-to-gardening-experts/ #CompanionPlants #DeterringSquirrels #garden #horticulturist #JenniferPetritz #PottedPlant #PottedPlants #TeriSpeight
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How to Grow Tomatoes in Extreme Heat So They Keep Producing All Summer https://www.allforgardening.com/1797537/how-to-grow-tomatoes-in-extreme-heat-so-they-keep-producing-all-summer/ #ExtremeHeat #garden #GrowingTomatoes #HeatWaves #HighTemperatures #HollyFerrell #horticulturist #HotClimates #SoilMoisture #TomatoVarieties #tomatoes
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We Asked Gardeners Which Fast-Growing Groundcover Is the Easiest to Maintain—and Their Answer Was Unanimous https://www.allforgardening.com/1717186/we-asked-gardeners-which-fast-growing-groundcover-is-the-easiest-to-maintain-and-their-answer-was-unanimous/ #CreepingPhlox #garden #gardener #gardening #HalinaShamshur #horticulturist
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The person in charge of the greenery at Singapore's Changi Airport.
"From bougainvilleas to towering palms, Changi Airport’s outdoor greenery spans over 370,000 square metres, or the size of 60 football fields. Overseeing it is Ling Hua Choo, who started work as a horticulturist at the old Paya Lebar Airport in 1978."
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Excited to announce our collaboration with World Radio Gardening! Dive into gardening wisdom with Ken Crowther, a seasoned #Horticulturist and BBC veteran. Discover #gardeningtips and honest tool reviews. Visit https://worldradiogardening.com/ for 24/7 gardening inspiration. #GrowWithUs 🌱📻🌸
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#January 12, 1903
#OTD Thomas H. Everett, #Horticulturist & #Author, is born.He was the director of #Horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden (#NYBG).
He wrote,
"The #Joy of being able to cut #Flowers freely… is an end that justifies a lot of #Gardening effort."
#Gardening #Garden #Gardener
#GardenersofMastodon
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#December 28, 1722
#OTD Eliza Lucas Pinckney, American #Horticulturist, is born.At boarding school, Eliza's favorite subject was #Botany.
At 16, she was put in charge of her family's #Plantation in colonial South Carolina & developed #Indigo as a cash crop using enslaved workers. After sharing seed with other planters, she started the Indigo Bonanza; indigo dye exports increased 2500% to 130,000 pounds by 1748.A #Mother of two Generals, George #Washington was a #Pallbearer at her #Funeral.
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#December 28, 1743
#OTD John #Champneys, American #Botanist, #Horticulturist, & #Gardener, is born.He crossed a Chinese Rosa chinensis and an #English #Rosa #moschata to create the first #Hybrid rose - a hardy rose that #Blooms almost year-round - the Champney's #Pink Cluster Rose.
The gardener Philippe #Noisette took credit when he sent clippings to his brother in #France & called it the Rosa Noisettiana. Modern historians are setting the record straight.
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#December 23, 1987
#OTD #Felder #Rushing, American #Writer & #Garden #Columnist at The Clarion-Ledger, shared his #Holiday #Poem for #Gardeners - a twist on 'Twas the Night Before #Christmas.Felder is known as an eleventh-generation #Gardener and a non-stuffy #Horticulturist who travels the #World looking for #Simple #Garden approaches to share with his readers.
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#Holidays #Santa #Poetry #Verse
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#December 17, 1858
#OTD Charles Morren, #Belgian #Botanist & #Horticulturist, died.He #Solved a 300-year-old #Botanical #Mystery when he #Discovered that #Vanilla was #Pollinated by the #Melipone ("meh-lip-in-ah") #Bee, a #Social & stingless bee #Native to #Mexico. Like #Monarchs + #Milkweed, they #CoEvolved over #Time.
In 1841, Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old slave discovered that Vanilla could be pollinated w/ a #Blade of #Grass or stick. Today almost all vanilla is hand-pollinated.
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#November 29, 1843
#OTD Gertrude Jekyll ("Jee-kul"), #British #Horticulturist, #Garden #Designer,
#Photographer, #Writer & #Artist is born.Regarding #Herbs, Gertrude wrote:
When I pick or crush in my hand a twig of #Bay,
or brush against a bush of #Rosemary,
or tread upon #Tuft of #Thyme...
I feel that #Here is all that is #Best and #Purest and most #Refined,
and nearest to the #Poetry ...of the #Sense of #Smell.#Gardener #Greatest #Aromatic #Herb #Queen
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#November 29, 1843
#OTD Gertrude Jekyll ("Jee-kul"), #British #Horticulturist, #Garden #Designer,
#Photographer, #Writer & #Artist is born.In her book, On #Gardening, Gertrude wrote:
The #Dahlia's first duty in life is to #Flaunt
and to #Swagger
and to carry #Gorgeous #Blooms well above its #Leaves,
and on no account to hang its head.#Gardener #Sassy #Greatest #Dahlia #Queen
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#November 29, 1843
#OTD Gertrude Jekyll ("Jee-kul"), #British #Horticulturist, #Garden #Designer,
#Photographer, #Writer & #Artist is born.In addition to her garden, #Munstead Wood, Gertrude created over 400 #Gardens in #Europe & the US.
Today the 'Gertrude Jekyll' #Pink #Rose is considered a gardener #Favorite, and the rose 'Munstead Wood' honors her garden and is one of the most splendid wine-red roses.
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#November 26, 1810
#OTD Henry Winthrop Sargent, American #Horticulturist, is born.He named his 20-acre #Estate on the #Hudson River #Wodenethe (woody promontory). A reporter said it was a #Wretched, bad #Name.
Henry used #Trees to frame beautiful #Vistas. After 40 years, he reflected,
“The first ten years, I did everything wrong. The next five I spent correcting my mistakes.”
Wodenethe became a #Sanatorium. Rosemary #Kennedy, #JFK's disabled #Sister, lived there in #Secret in the 1940s.
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