February 11, 2021 Gardening for Health, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Should Botany Be Taught In Schools, Saving the Sakura, Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants by Ken Thompson, and Garden-Inspired Verses About Love
Today we celebrate a woman who was insatiable when it came to plants, and she is remembered forever with the Portland Rose.
We'll also learn about a famous speech given at a Vermont botanical club about why botany wasn't taught in schools - and the reasons were pretty spot on.
We hear a story about a beautiful cherry tree found near the Osakabe ("sah-KAH-bay") Hotel.
We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about Darwin's plants - in addition to his theory of evolution, Darwin experimented and observed plants extensively at his home in Kent.
And then we'll wrap things up by getting you ready…
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