Hey y’all. Short and sweet.
- British artificial grass company Easigrass won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. One of the benefits of artificial turf, according to the company, is that it’s “more hygienic than normal grass.” Call me crazy, but I’m not all that hung up on how hygienic my yard it. Not to mention that Chelsea is a flower and garden show, not a plastics (or whatever that stuff is) show. I’m against it!
- Also from Chelsea: Plant of the Year award winner digitalis ‘Illumination Pink’ is “the result of a hybridization formerly thought impossible,” according to the British website Horticulture Week. The new plant is an interspecific cross with Isoplexis, a division of Digitalis.
- Why do supermarket strawberries taste nothing like U-pick or homegrown? “…breeders don’t intentionally select for strawberries that don’t taste good.” That’s encouraging. From NPR featuring Cornell’s Marvin Pritts.
- The Buffalo News comprehensive guide to garden walks is here.
- Michelle Sutton, who is a regular contributor to the UGJ, is also the editor of City Trees—the Journal of the Society of Municipal Arborists—and invites you to have a look at the current issue.
- Alexander Central School is planning an outdoor classroom and would love any and all donations of plants or time, skill, and/or expertise. Details are here on EartotheGroundPRO.com.
- Is it really? Today’s Garden Center (and numerous bloggers, tweeters and facebook marketers) claims that fairy and miniature gardens is a big trend. I haven’t seen too many, but I’m not on the front line. You?
- A Genetic Cure for Tomato Rot. BER is mostly preventable anyway, but an interesting read. (NYTimes.)
- 3rd National Bonsai Exhibition, Expo Center, Monroe County Fairgrounds, June 9-10.
- The Peace Garden Trail is a cool project. If you’re into history, you’ll enjoy this article, which is sort of a background piece: War of 1812’s impact on Genesee County. (Batavia Daily News.)
- Blue light tells plants when to flower.
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