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The Brevities segment is made up of 5 main topic areas.
1. Commemoration: Here, I dig up fascinating people, places, and events in horticulture and share them with you. This is the “On This Day” #OTD portion of the show helping you feel more grounded and versed o n the most enchanting stories from the history of gardening.
2. Unearthing Written Work: This is made up of poems, quotes, journal entries, and other inspiring works pertaining to gardening
3. Book Recommendations: These are the literary treasures that will help you build a garden library, strengthen your gardening know-how and inspire you.
4. Garden Chores: A Daily Garden To-Do; improve your garden one actionable tip at a time
5. Something Sweet: This segment is dedicated to “reviving the little botanic spark” in your heart - to paraphrase botanist Alexander Garden; to add more joy to the pursuit of gardening.
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Sep 20, 2021
Today we celebrate a German botanist, an American botanist, an
explorer, and an English poet and novelist.
We hear an excerpt about the change in seasons.
We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that challenges us to see
trees in a new way - with profound understanding, respect, and
intelligence.
And then we’ll wrap things up with the birthday of a beloved
American poet and his humorous poem about gardening.
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Important Events
September 20, 1552
Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau, German botanist, polyglot, and
physician. He translated Greek and Arabic medical references along
with other European texts and created a master medical reference.
The book helped educate people about the plaque and earned Lorenz a
coat of arms and title. In an age when people were afraid of
nightshade plants, Lorenz grew potatoes. His large seven-acre
garden was divided into four main quadrants connected by paths. In
the middle of the garden, a large dining hall and art gallery
entertained guests.
September 20, 1872
Birth of Mary Sophie Young, American botanist, and explorer. Born
in Glendale, Ohio, she had seven older brothers who she credited
for her toughness. After getting her Ph.D., she was put in charge
of the Austin herbarium for Texas. She concealed her gender by
signing correspondence "M.S. Young." During her career, she fell in
love with botanizing in West Texas, and her work helped create a
flora of Texas. On a 1914 trip, she wrote in her journal:
It’s about five o’clock now. The ‘lonely’ time is beginning.
The air is very transparent and very still, and everything
glistens. There is something of that uncanny feeling of the
consciousness of inanimate things.
September 20, 1902
Birth of Florence Margaret Smith (pen name Stevie Smith), English
poet and novelist. She was awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets
and won the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. A play Stevie by Hugh
Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring
Glenda Jackson.
She wrote,
Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more
robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree
as well as a flower; we must try not to forget this.
Unearthed Words
July let me go with the sea
She stood there handing me over to the future
I seemed farther than ever before
July she watched me die under the arms of August
September lived in harmony
She took me by the hand
And gave me one more chance
October and a century of life.”
― Patricia Rezai, Submerged in a Garden of Lust
Grow That Garden Library
To Speak for the Trees by Diana
Beresford-Kroeger
This book came out in 2019, and the subtitle is My Life's
Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the
Forest.
A Canadian botanist, biochemist, and visionary, Diana won the 2019
Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for this book, which shares
her family’s Celtic ancestry along with a deeper perspective on
trees and their communities - what we call forests.
Diana shares why trees matter, the role they play in solving our
climate change crisis, and a path toward a greater appreciation for
these quiet giants of our planet.
This book is 304 pages of a tree celebration and cautionary plea to
recognize and safeguard their value to us all.
You can get a copy of To
Speak for the Trees by Diana
Beresford-Kroeger and
support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for
around $16.
Today’s Botanic Spark
Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart
September 20, 1881
Birth of Edgar Albert Guest, British-American writer, columnist,
and poet. Thanks to his happy, hopeful poetry, he was beloved and
became known as the “People’s Poet” during the first half of the
20th century. Here’s an excerpt from his poem called To
Plant a Garden:
If your purse no longer bulges
and you’ve lost your golden treasure,
If at times you think you’re lonely
and have hungry grown for pleasure,
Don’t sit by your hearth and grumble,
don’t let mind and spirit harden.
If it’s thrills of joy you wish for
get to work and plant a garden!
If it’s drama that you sigh for,
plant a garden and you’ll get it
You will know the thrill of battle
fighting foes that will beset it
If you long for entertainment and
for pageantry most glowing,
Plant a garden and this summer spend
your time with green things growing.
If it’s comradeship you sight for,
learn the fellowship of daisies.
You will come to know your neighbor
by the blossoms that he raises;
If you’d get away from boredom
and find new delights to look for,
Learn the joy of budding pansies
which you’ve kept a special nook for.
If you ever think of dying
and you fear to wake tomorrow
Plant a garden! It will cure you
of your melancholy sorrow
Once you’ve learned to know peonies,
petunias, and roses,
You will find every morning
some new happiness discloses.
Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener.
And remember:
"For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."