Sunday, May 08, 2022

Discuss "A History of Zinnias" with the Washington Gardener Magazine Garden Book Club

For our next Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: 

You can order it new or used at our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/3zh8vx3

"The deep and exciting history of garden zinnias pieces together a tale involving Aztecs, Spanish conquistadors, people of faith, people of medicine, explorers, scientists, writers, botanists, painters, and gardeners. The trail leads from the halls of Moctezuma to a cliff-diving prime minister; from Handel, Mozart, and Rossini to Gilbert and Sullivan; from a little-known confession by Benjamin Franklin to a controversy raised by Charles Darwin; from Emily Dickinson, who writes of death and zinnias, to a twenty-year-old woman who writes of reanimated corpses; and from a scissor-wielding septuagenarian who painted with bits of paper to the “Black Grandma Moses” who painted zinnias and inspired the opera Zinnias." --Amazon.com

Our Spring 2022 club meeting will be on Thursday, June 9 from 6:30-8pm ET via Zoom. To join us, register here: 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Washington Gardener Magazine's Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. We will announce the details of each upcoming meeting about two months in advance. Please check back on this blog for schedule updates and announcements.

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