July 25, 2020 L.A. Music Producer Mark Redito, Cleome, Oxford Botanic Garden, William Forsyth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Joseph Sauriol, Elizabeth Lawrence, Walt Whitman, Weeds by Richard Mabey, and A Case of Floral Offerings
Today we remember the founding of a garden that inspired the book Alice in Wonderland.
We'll also learn about the botanist remembered with the Forsythia genus.
We'll salute the Lake poet who likened plant taxonomy to poetry.
We also revisit a diary entry about a garden visitor and a letter from a gardener to her sister.
Today's Unearthed Words feature an excerpt from a July Afternoon by Walt Whitman.
We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about the unloved flowers as they have been referred to Weeds.
And then we'll wrap things up with an unforgettable story of flowers and a performance…
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