What would we do without blue?
Here is where aestheticians are inspired to leave well enough alone
Cone flowers and rudbeckias along the road
Abby Jane Brody
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It is, of course, huge surcease and respite and time for repose
Celia’s well-tended garden
The hour was always arboreal
Inspired by botanizing in Greece and Turkey
There were no roads so the botanists hired a tractor in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey. The driver is seen taking a break in the Emily Valley.
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Tom Ranney is perhaps best known for his research on calycanthus (sweetshrub) hybrids
Magnolia R-20-1 is a hybrid that one enthusiast dubbed the greatest of all magnolia crosses.
Tom Ranney
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Contributing Writer, Star Gardener
Durell Godfrey
A flower picked and displayed is mortality brought indoors