May 23, 2019 Growing as a Gardener, Carl Linnaeus, the Centigrade thermometer, Commelina genus, Sjupp the Raccoon, the Hamburg Hydra, Linnaea borealis or Twinflower, August Strindberg, Planting Cannas, Martin Hoffman, and Linnaeus' Lapland Costume
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote,
"But these young scholars...
Love not the flower they pluck,
and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names."
There is more to gardening than nomenclature, and more than nomenclature there's actually growing and knowing plants.
Brevities
#OTD It's the birthday of Carl Linnaeus born on this day in 1707.
It is said he liked flowers as a young child and whenever he was upset, he was given a flower to sooth him.
On May 1st, 1753 the publication of his masterpiece Species Plantarumchanged plant taxonomy forever.
It gave Linnaeus the moniker Father of Taxonomy…
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