January 28, 2021 New Year Plant Hunt 2021, Peter Collinson, Paul Ecke, Thoughts on Spleenwort by Susan Wittig Albert, Botanical Style by Selina Lake, and the Best Job Ever: Creating Herb Gardens
Today we celebrate a colonial botanist who introduced nearly 200 plants to British horticulture after sourcing them from his good friend John Bartram in America.
We'll also learn about the man who mastered growing the Poinsettia and established it as the official plant of Christmas.
We'll hear some wonderful thoughts on the Common Daisy (Bellis perennis) from one of my favorite writers.
We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about styling your home with botanicals - making your own horticultural haven.
And then we'll wrap things up with the story of a woman who found her way to the best job…
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