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Category: history

• books experiences gardens history

  

  Ruth’s Garden

  The Ruth Bancroft Garden was created decades ago before dry gardening had become popular.

  10 September, 2025
• experiences history

  

  My History with the MGS

  Honoring the 30th anniversary of the Mediterranean Garden Society.

  5 April, 2024
• history plants

  

  Red and Green for the Holidays!

  How a Mexican ‘weed’ became a Christmas cliché.

  7 December, 2023
• history latin

  

  It’s all Latin to me (part 3)

  People are always correcting my Latin name pronunciation, what’s that about?

  26 September, 2023
• history latin

  

  It’s all Latin to me (part 2)

  What should I make of these Latin binomial listings?

  21 August, 2023
• history latin

  

  It’s all Latin to me (part 1)

  Why on earth do we use Latin to name plants in Botany?

  26 July, 2023
• history plants

  

  An Arbutus named ‘Marina’

  Tracking the origin and introduction of this interesting hybrid.

  8 April, 2023
• gardens history

  

  A Garden Past …

  Gardens are often transient.

  2 February, 2022
• history plants

  

  What’s in a name – Scilla peruviana

  ‘Much ado’ about this easily grown and flowered bulb.

  2 March, 2019
• history plants

  

  A Climbing Geranium

  A surprisingly vigorous variegated Pelargonium.

  2 February, 2019