TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Greetings Infomaniacs,

One of my favorite places to visit is the Chicago Botanical Gardens. It's just so serene and pretty there; I could spend all day just strolling around. Pretty soon it will be spring and everything will be in full bloom.
I can't wait!

In the meantime, here are some fun facts about gardens...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

HINT: (1819-1982), American poet, essayist and journalist.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The ancient Chinese and Greeks grew fruit trees, vegetables and herbs in gardens for food and for medicines.

In the 1500s there were five famous botanical gardens in Europe designed to study and grow herbs for medicine.

Carolus Clusius set up a famous flower garden in Leiden in Holland in the late 1500s. Here the first tulips from China were grown and the Dutch bulb industry began.

The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew near London were made famous by Sir Joseph Banks in the late 1700s for their extensive collection of plants from around the world.

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-83) was a famous English landscape gardener. He got his nickname by telling clients that their gardens had excellent 'capabilities'.

The earliest flowerbeds were the borders of flower tufts Ancient Persians grew along pathways.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

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