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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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12, 1903
Thomas H. Everett, & , is born.

He was the director of at the New York Botanical Garden ().

He wrote,

"The of being able to cut freely… is an end that justifies a lot of effort."




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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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28, 1722
Eliza Lucas Pinckney, American , is born.

At boarding school, Eliza's favorite subject was .
At 16, she was put in charge of her family's in colonial South Carolina & developed 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.

: George was a at her .

#December #otd #horticulturist #botany #plantation #indigo #funfact #president #Washington #pallbearer #funeral

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28, 1743
John , American , , & , is born.

He crossed a Chinese Rosa chinensis and an to create the first rose - a hardy rose that almost year-round - the Champney's Cluster Rose.

The gardener Philippe took credit when he sent clippings to his brother in & called it the Rosa Noisettiana. Modern historians are setting the record straight.

#December #otd #champneys #botanist #horticulturist #gardener #english #rosa #moschata #hybrid #blooms #pink #noisette #france #history #garden #charleston

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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17, 1858
Charles Morren, & , died.

He a 300-year-old when he that was by the ("meh-lip-in-ah") , a & stingless bee to . Like + , they over .

In 1841, Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old slave discovered that Vanilla could be pollinated w/ a of or stick. Today almost all vanilla is hand-pollinated.

#December #otd #belgian #botanist #horticulturist #solved #botanical #mystery #discovered #vanilla #pollinated #melipone #bee #social #native #mexico #monarchs #milkweed #coevolved #time #Blade #grass #spice

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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29, 1843
Gertrude Jekyll ("Jee-kul"), , ,
, & born.

Regarding , Gertrude wrote:

When I pick or crush in my hand a twig of ,
or brush against a bush of ,
or tread upon of ...
I feel that is all that is and and most ,
and nearest to the ...of the of .


#November #otd #british #horticulturist #garden #designer #photographer #writer #artist #herbs #bay #rosemary #tuft #thyme #here #best #purest #refined #poetry #sense #smell #gardener #Greatest #aromatic #herb #Queen #gardenersofmastodon

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29, 1843
Gertrude Jekyll ("Jee-kul"), , ,
, &

In her book, On , Gertrude wrote:

The 's first duty in life is to
and to
and to carry well above its ,
and on no account to hang its head.


#November #otd #british #horticulturist #garden #designer #photographer #writer #artist #gardening #dahlia #flaunt #swagger #gorgeous #blooms #leaves #gardener #sassy #Greatest #Queen #gardenersofmastodon

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29, 1843
Gertrude Jekyll ("Jee-kul"), , , , & .

In addition to her garden, Wood, Gertrude created over 400 in & the US.

Today the 'Gertrude Jekyll' is considered a gardener , and the rose 'Munstead Wood' honors her garden and is one of the most splendid wine-red roses.


#November #otd #british #horticulturist #garden #designer #photographer #writer #artist #munstead #gardens #europe #pink #rose #favorite #gardening #gardener #gardenersofmastodon

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November 26, 1810
Birth of Henry Winthrop Sargent, American .

He named his 20-acre on the River (woody promontory). A reporter once said it was a wretched, bad name.

Henry used to frame beautiful . 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 , 's disabled sister, lived there in secret in the 1940s.

#otd #horticulturist #estate #hudson #wodenethe #trees #vistas #kennedy #jfk

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Chris R Pike · @crpike
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I am a and in western . Started out in —ended up . Fascinated by the way different landscapes change how I feel and experience the world. I believe we all need more insects in our lives.

Originally from . . Hate noise pollution. Big fan of old well-told. Fell in love with first, then , then . My love-hate relationship with goes in 5-year cycles.

#introduction #horticulturist #landscape #designer #massachusetts #habitat #restoration #gardening #kentucky #queer #stories #fish #plants #insects #sports

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Coding Gardener · @cdavies
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#mentalhealth #datascience #statistics #qgis #rstats #phd #horticulturist #botanist

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