Good morning! Slow news week, with the holiday and all. It seems like every issue lately starts off with a death announcement—very sad.
- On May 15, central New York lost Paul Wellington, a Cornellian, landscaper, and viticulturalist. His obit is here.
- Over the weekend I visited my BFF Sandra in Maplewood, New Jersey, part of an enclave of very attractive suburban architecture and landscaping. We saw the Presby Iris Garden at its peak. There were hundreds of visitors there, and thousands of irises, and the volunteers running the place were passionate, you could clearly see. I don’t know, though. It was a whole lot of irises. Gardens like that are boring. The Siberians have sort of died out there (historic images show lots of them), so it’s all bearded irises in their purples and taupes.
What is NOT boring, if you want to go down a similar route, is the Monocot Border, for instance, at Wisley (two images, below). Maybe that’s unfair, but I just think mixing it up is a good idea.
- The Director of Education Position is available at Buffalo Botanical Gardens.
- I had no idea about this and it’s quite interesting: “The vast majority of tart cherry trees in the U.S. are genetically identical.” That’s changing. (NPR.)
- From BBC News, “The technology that’s transforming gardening.” “Many people may only have heard of hydroponics in terms of growing cannabis, but actually it is widely used in farming.” Sounds obvious, right? It’s actually a good story that veers into “roof to table” territory.
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