Hey there! Thanks for reading! I took last week off because I was on the road. Sad news today: Lucas Hoag, a horticulture student at Niagara County Community College and son of Robert Hoag of The Grounds Guys of the Southtowns of Buffalo has died. His obituary is here.
- From TreeHugger: Photographer documents tree damage following Superstorm Sandy.
- More on Sandy: Architect looks at alternative ways to rebuild urban parks. (From Rutgers’s Daily Targum.) Green spaces recover, but move hardscaped areas like playgrounds to higher elevations.
- Create garden color the artist’s way: “Gardening author Sydney Eddison created a [color] wheel that has 252 colors instead of the usual 12. That’s because nature doesn’t work with a limited palette, she says. ‘In nature you have already been dealt this hand. You only have to learn how to play it.'” (Via @landarchitects.)
- 72,000 Ladybugs Released in Mall of America. Very sweet. And sensible.
- From the NY Times Popular Demand department: Gardening Apps. Number one is from Organic Gardening magazine.
- “The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva has received $4.7 million through Cornell University to reconstruct 21,000 square feet of greenhouse and research facilities” via @RBJDaily.
- The Garden Walk Buffalo Beautification Grants have been awarded for 2013 (via Buffalo Rising).
- Courtesy @wdcgardener: This week the National Arboretum will begin closing to the public Tuesday through Thursday as a cost cutting measure. It will also reinstate some fees, but not a general admission fee.
- The New York Botanical Garden has a new Native Plant Garden, designed by Oehme van Sweden, a very forward-thinking firm. Their designs are great (at least they are in pictures) and this should be no exception. Check it out this weekend at the NYBG’s Mother’s Day Garden Party.
- For all you Olmsted fans out there: Forest Hills Gardens, a British Experiment in Queens.
- That’s the spirit: Booze from local crops booming. (From the Wall Street Journal)
- Who wouldn’t want this guy’s job? (NYT)
- Also from the NYT: “The police seem somewhat befuddled. Possibly bored.” DC Gardeners Battle a Persistent Pest: A Flower Thief.
- Dan Heims of Terra Nova Nurseries was quoted in this obituary for…Marge Simpson?
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