October 28, 2019 Missouri Botanical Garden New Visitor Center, CalRecycle's Get Started with Composting, Alphonse de Candolle, Kate Brandegee, Gulie Lister, Edwin James, October's Party, The Art of Gardening by Chanticleer, Feeding Winter Birds, and Finl

Summary: Today we celebrate the Swiss botanist who is the father of geographical botany & the American botanist who took a 500-mile nature walk for her honeymoon. And, just in time for Halloween, we'll learn about the botanist who was the Queen of slime mold. And, we're coming up on the 200th anniversary of the botanist who discovered the Blue Columbine. We'll hear one of my favorite poems about Octob er with the line, "The leaves by hundreds came." ...