Good morning! Today I am off to Cornell to Floriculture Field Day, where I am honored to be a judge of the Kathy Pufahl Container Contest. This is always a great day — better if it’s not too sunny, though, and you get a chance to knock around Bluegrass Lane and check out the test plots there. I always take a lot of pictures, and this year will present some of them at the Rochester Civic Garden Center’s seed swap the last Saturday in January. I regret not having promoted Field Day when it could have made a difference (just didn’t think to) and urge anyone who notices I’ve missed or under-emphasized something to please, draw it to my attention. Thanks!
- From the Democrat and Chronicle: Officials hope wasps will slow spread of emerald ash borers—this is a really good, thorough piece by Steve Orr. He also touches on the hemlock wooly adelgid.
- When I read this story, I kept imaging people falling into the rain garden, and that it was some giant ditch filled with garbage. So I looked at the picture, and now I’m even more confused. Anyway … it seems to have been a failed experiment for the location. Recently built rain garden removed in Buffalo.
- “A year ago, the garden’s 75-year-old former manager clutched a lighter and container of gasoline, threatening to light himself on fire if he didn’t get his old job back.” Yikes! Control over NYC community garden gets ugly. From the Wall Street Journal.
- Also from the WSJ: In New York’s Central Park, Ladybugs Have License to Kill. “According to folklore, ladybugs got their name when European farmers in the Middle Ages prayed to the Virgin Mary for salvation when aphids were destroying their crops—and ladybugs appeared.”
- Neat-o story in the brand-spanking new magazine (585), which I also write for and which is owned by Buffalo Spree, about Rochester’s 125 year old Olmsted park legacy.
- From the Times: “Arid Southwest Cities’ Plea: Lose the Lawn.“
- Need some inspiration? Want to see what the Association of Professional Landscape Designers thinks are the best designs of the year? Here ya go!
- From the Weather Channel, Incredible Healing Plants from Around the World! I just thought this was funny for “slobbering bush.”
- Want to advertise this fall in the Upstate Gardeners’ Journal? Good news! It’s that time!
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