May 24, 2019 Gardeners and Weeds, Ynes Mexia, Queen Victoria, Frank Cabot, Les Quatre Vents, Linda Leinen, The Naming of Plants, Anna Pavord, The Naming of Names, Photo Friday in the Garden, and Ynes Mexia's Exploits in Mexico and South America

Summary: Emerson once wrote,   "To science there is no poison; To botany no weed; To chemistry no dirt."   As much as I like this quote, I know most gardeners will beg to differ. To gardeners, there areweeds. As I mentioned in an earlier episode this month, we often forget one key variable in gardening; the gardener. Each of us, as gardeners, has our own point of view when it comes to weeds.   On May 12, 1957, Vita Sackville West reached the same conclusion when she said, "It was borne in on me, not for..