Hello, friends.
Busy busy February. We are hard at work on the spring Upstate Gardeners’ Journal, which commemorates our 20th year. Twentieth! WOW. The deadline for advertising is coming up — we’d like to have everything in by February 20. Give me a holler if you want in.
The last two weeks were busy with Education Days—Michael Dirr and Allan Armitage were both upstate, and that caused quite the stir. They both gave very entertaining and informative talks, and the events for PLANT WNY and PLANT GFLX went really well, despite the atrocious weather. Heidi Mortensen from Prides Corner spoke at the PLANT GFLX event, and she was really good—if you are in the market for a speaker to talk trends and emerging woodies, look her up.
Another plant incorporated into street art. This image is by Ada Hamza, and the gallery is quite good—check it out.
Via Greenhouse Product News: The Perennial Plant of the Year is…Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokova’. Thoughts?
Feeding my strange garden gadget fascination: Back to the Roots Aquafarm II! Yes!
Here’s a Kickstarter campaign you might find interesting. Bloomtown TV: The Mud, Sweat and Tears of Horticulture, “A webseries about the funny, fanatical folks in the horticulture business who will entertain you right into a pair of gardening gloves.” Click through to watch the trailer; I can’t seem to get it to stick here.
I never knew the native violet was the only host for the great fritillary. Learn about that and more in the New York Times’s “Asking More of the Landscape—At Plant-O-Rama in Brooklyn, the Message Was That Beauty Is No Longer Enough.”
I don’t know why it took me so long to discover this site, but it could become a very dangerous rabbit hole for me. If no one hears from me for a few weeks, send help. From Gardenista: “Nine Garden Ideas to Steal from England’s Tom Stuart-Smith.”
Here’s a great job opportunity: Oak Hill CC seeks assistant horticulturalist. Potential candidates may email Scott Wheeler at [email protected] or call 586-2584 x. 105.
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