ETTG—The Almost All New York Times Edition

Good morning to you. We have lost a few industry people in the past couple of weeks: David Franke, Kirk Personius, and Jerry Drake. Very sad.

• My pal and longtime UGJ correspondent Michelle Sutton is now editing TAKING ROOT—The Blog of the New York State Urban Forestry Council. Check it out!
• I’ll be going to the IGC show in Chicago for the first time this year. If you are also going, give a holler!
• Botany is NOT boring! Sheesh. No more Latin: Botany rebooted for the 21st century.

• I just thought this was really pretty, but it’s a good reminder also to please connect with me if you are on Pinterest.

And a whole lot of excellent stuff from the New York Times:

• New York Botanical Will Recreate Frida Kahlo’s Garden

• The Garage That Bloomed

• Ash Forests After Emerald Ash Borers Destroy Them—”“Ninety-nine percent of the ashes in North America are probably going to die.”

• Noisy Predators Put Plants on Alert, Study Finds

• Botany’s New Boys

• A Fig Tree Dies in Brooklyn (In case you needed more proof that last winter was a bear.)

• Plants With Roots Attached—A warm, wonderful profile of the plantsman Allen Bush with many familiar names checked, including upstate New York’s own Ellen Hornig.

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