February 10, 2026 Carl Linnaeus, Rodney and Rachel Saunders, Charles Lamb, Sitting in the Shade by Hugh Johnson, and Winifred Mary Letts
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Today's Show Notes
February has a reputation for romance, but gardeners know another side of it. The February blues. The long pause. The stretch where effort feels heavier than reward.
And yet, this is often when love shows itself most clearly. Not as delight, but as endurance.
Today's Garden History
1758 Carl Linnaeus wrote a letter unlike any other.
Earlier that year, Linnaeus fell into a deep depression. On February…
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