Thalassa Cruso Hencken:
Born Mary Thalassa Alford Cruso.
(January 7, 1909 – June 11, 1997).
British-born presenter and author on horticulture.
Through her appearance on The Tonight Show, as well as her gardening show on PBS, Making Things Grow, she became known to a wide audience and earned the reputation as “The Julia Child of Horticulture.”
March is a month of considerable frustration it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country, the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light-years away.
