Green Fingers Traditional Cache
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Pierre Belon
Greening like any other hobby has its own Hall of Fame of famous
gardeners. It is filled with a variety of stoic gardeners,
plantsmen and women, geniuses, aristocrats, workers and dreamers.
Famous gardeners' achievements have been equally varied, some have
travelled the world enduring unimaginable hardship collecting
plants, other famous gardeners have created gardens that draw
visitors by the million, and a few have been inspired to create a
new style of gardening that has changed the way we view gardening
for ever.
Famous Gardeners:
Plant Hunters; The plant hunters of the past were not all
famous gardeners themselves; some worked tirelessly for patrons or
horticultural societies to earn a living and only became known as
famous gardeners centuries later. It is to these plant hunters that
we owe our basic garden flowers.
The first to appear in our Famous Gardeners Hall of Fame were those
adventurous spirits of the Renaissance - in the 16th century
the French naturalist Pierre Belon travelled through Greece, Asia
Minor, Egypt, Arabia and Palestine, and the Austrian de Busbecq
brought tulips and other plants back from Turkey.
Tradescant:
17th Century; In the 17th Century, our famous gardeners went
even further afield for instance the Tradescants collected plants
and shrubs from Russia and the New World while another famous
gardener, Kaempfer, collected plants from Japan.
John Bartram:
In the 18th Century the numbers of plant hunters increased:
John Bartram was the first of the American plant hunters;
Tournefort travelled to the near East, Masson brought back
pelargoniums from South Africa and Cunningham and d'Incarville
introduced Western gardeners to the wondrous flora of China.
The 19th Century famous gardeners and plantsmen and women
were treated to new wonders from China (Robert Fortune), South
America (von Humboldt) and Australia (Cunningham and Drummond). In
1825 David Douglas was another famous gardener in the making when
the Horticultural Society of London sent him to North America and
the flowers, shrubs and trees he collected are considered to have
had more effect on our gardens than the discoveries of any other
plant hunter.
The search for new plants go on, E.H. Wilson and George Forest
brought back plants from the Far East at the beginning of the
20th Century and even today expeditions travel to the
remoter parts of the globe in search of new species of plants,
shrubs and trees to enthrall modern famous gardeners. Famous
gardeners often worked tirelessly for little reward but they are
now remembered in the Latin plant names that are used throughout
the world to identify their specimens.
Ref: http://www.gardeningforeveryman.com/famousgardeners.php
The container is a micro. Please take your own pen. The paper clips
are there to assist with removing the log. The cache is available
from 08:00 - 17:00 daily, weekends included. On a Saturday there
are more muggles then usual so please be aware. The owners are
aware of this cache and have strict instructions
NOT TO ASSIST you.
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