#horticulturist — Public Fediverse posts
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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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LSU AgCenter expert shares tips for starting spring seeds indoors | Johnette’s Garden Club https://www.allforgardening.com/1606514/lsu-agcenter-expert-shares-tips-for-starting-spring-seeds-indoors-johnettes-garden-club/ #garden #GardenClub #gardening #horticulturist #johnette #JohnetteMagner #LouisianaStateUniversityAgriculturalCenter #MarkWilson #seeds #SowingSeeds #transplants
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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, 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.
#Gardening #GardenersofMastodon #Nature
#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 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.
