March 8, 2021 Build an Affordable Grow Light System, André Michaux, William Roscoe, Getting Wisteria to Bloom, Floral Libations by Cassie Winslow, and Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe

The Daily Gardener · Mar 8, 2021 · 23m

Today we celebrate a French botanist and explorer who became an accomplished botanist after losing his wife.

We'll also learn about the man remembered in the late spring/summer-flowering genus Roscoea (ross-COE-ee-uh), which includes extremely fragrant herbaceous perennials in the Zingiberaceae "Zin- jah-bah-RAY-see-ee" or ginger family.

We hear an excerpt from a delightful book about pruning wisteria - if you have a wisteria in full sun that hasn't bloomed - you can thank your pruning regimen for that.

We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about floral cocktails. Cheers to that.

And then…