Article: Henry Mitchell, Remembered In Flowers

Henry Mitchell, the Washington Post garden columnist who died last year, will be remembered at a gathering Sept. 24 at the National Arboretum.

For more than 20 years, Mitchell wrote The Post's Sunday gardening column and was widely admired for his knowledge and wit. He often praised the arboretum in his writings but "in particular he complained that our azalea collection was poorly identified," said Lisa Wilson, director of the Friends of the National Arboretum, which is sponsoring the event. "We thought the most fitting gesture" would be to install signs identifying plants and explaining the ...

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