TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, December 17, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Over the weekend, I went to the Chicago Botanical Gardens to check out their light display. I had never been there before, so it was really cool to visit. It was especially fun to go with my cousin and her little kids. Everything is just more magical through the eyes of a child!

With that said, here are some fun facts on gardens!

Enjoy!
Melissa

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
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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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

ANSWER: Walt Whitman.

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