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What I’m Reading: The Garden Book of California (1906) – 5 in a series – “…and a good, strong garden scissors and knife for cutting flowers.”

  Photo: Eco Warrior Princess “THE best hose, not a half-inch imitation, but a good rubber hose that will carry as large a stream as your water-pipe will yield, is one Continue Reading

Posted On : August 17, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
Category:
  • Design
  • Nature/Outdoors
  • Photos-Photography
  • Plants
  • Travel
  • UK/Europe

A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan via Instagram

What is your favorite botanic garden? Leave a comment and share! A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan This was taken during my second visit to Continue Reading

Posted On : August 17, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
Category:
  • Art
  • Education
  • Flowers
  • Garden History
  • Plants

Historical Seed Catalogs: Henderson’s flowers for American gardens (1921) – 32 in a series

Archive.org has a host of old seed catalogs (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. I happened across a few in my Continue Reading

Posted On : August 16, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
Category:
  • Design
  • Landscape
  • Nature/Outdoors
  • Photos-Photography
  • Travel
  • Trees
  • UK/Europe

A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan via Instagram

What is your favorite botanic garden? Leave a comment and share! A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan This was taken during my second visit to Continue Reading

Posted On : August 16, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
Category:
  • Dazzling Dahlias
  • Flowers
  • Photos-Photography
  • Plants

Dazzling Dahlias – 1 in a series – Dahlia ‘Margaret Haggo’

Dahlia ‘Margaret Haggo’ (Dahlia). This genus has upright and bushy, early summer and early autumn flowering, tuberous, deciduous annuals and perennials. They bear pinnatifid or pinnatisect, mid green leaves and Continue Reading

Posted On : August 15, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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  • Design
  • Landscape
  • Nature/Outdoors
  • Photos-Photography
  • Travel
  • Trees
  • UK/Europe

A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan  via Instagram

What is your favorite plant? Leave a comment and share! A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan  This was taken during my second visit to the Continue Reading

Posted On : August 15, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
Category:
  • Food
  • Nature/Outdoors
  • Photos-Photography
  • Plants
  • Travel
  • UK/Europe

Amaranth via Instagram

What is your favorite plant? Leave a comment and share! Amaranth  A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan “Species belonging to the genus Amaranthus have been Continue Reading

Posted On : August 14, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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  • Books
  • Education
  • Flowers
  • Garden History
  • History
  • Nature/Outdoors
  • Plants

Historical Garden Books: Treatise culture of the dahlia and cactus by E. Sayers (1839) – 44 in a series

Archive.org has a host of old gardening books (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. I happened across a few in my Continue Reading

Posted On : August 14, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
Category:
  • Art
  • Leaves
  • Nature/Outdoors
  • Photos-Photography
  • Plants

Castor Bean Leaf (Ricinus communis) via Instagram

What is your favorite plant? Leave a comment and share! Castor Bean Leaf (Ricinus communis) A scene from the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of Milan While castor bean is Continue Reading

Posted On : August 13, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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  • Books
  • Garden History
  • History
  • Quotes
  • Reading

What I’m Reading: The Garden Book of California (1906) – 4 in a series – “…the son of a poor country clergyman who had a small flower garden…”

By Alexander Roslin – Nationalmuseum, Public Domain “Linnaeus, the renowned Swedish botanist, was the son of a poor country clergyman who had a small flower garden in which he cultivated Continue Reading

Posted On : August 12, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch

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