May 10, 2021 Butter Wakefield, Leonard Mascall, John Hope, Aconite Lust, My Wild Garden by Meir Shalev, and Cecelia Payne
Today we celebrate the man who first wrote about the secateurs.
We'll also learn about the Scottish botanist who established the Edinburgh "Edinbura" Botanic Garden.
We hear an excerpt about planting aconites from a garden writer who adored them.
We Grow That Garden Library™ with a memoir full of charming insights and reflections on gardening.
And then we'll wrap things up with the story of the scientist who is remembered for her discovery that stars are made largely of the two lightest chemicals, hydrogen and helium - but she started out as a botanist.
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