Some Images of our Agroforestry Nursery! We grow Oaks, Hickories, Chestnuts, Persimmons, Mulberries, and Honey Locusts!
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SYF and AFE Collaborate on Bloom Together Event
Seed Your Future and the American Floral Endowment thank all contributors to the 5th annual Bloom Together Event.
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Acanthocalycium thionanthum subsp. glaucum
Acanthocalycium thionanthum subsp. glaucum, also known as Acanthocalycium glaucum or Echinopsis glaucina, is a small cactus with a …
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Spring!
Looks like we made it, to spring that is, and I for one could not be happier. It’s so nice to be sliding into the growing season, look around the garden, and see life, not the scorched earth hellscape I’ve faced the last two years (after bad winter weather).
The Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Nanjing Gold’ blooms went on uninterrupted by cold and ice, and have been loved by the hummingbirds.
After I tried to find Helleborus foetidus in a local nursery and kept striking out a friend gave me seedlings from her plant, this is the first year I’ve got blooms…
The bottom half of this photo shows both Grevillea rivularis (L) and G. x gaudichaudii (R). They were knocked back to nothing after winter 2024, they’re looking good now, maybe there are blooms in store there too?
One of my favorite views, looking south along the front of our home.
Euphorbia rigida
Love the acid green/yellow coloring.
This container grouping is on the south side of our front doorsteps.
Helleborus Winter Jewels ‘Red Sapphire’
Draba hispanica blooming in the large container.
Now a few things in the back garden…(looks like I need to mow the lawn when we have a couple dry days in a row)…
Rhododendron ‘Ebony Pearl’ with Arachniodes simplicior ‘Variegata’.
Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Akebono’
Ferns and aspidistra (no aspidistra death and destruction this year!).
Those metal grid panels are covered with hanging plants later in the season, it’s odd to be able to see from the back to the front of this planting bed.
I fear I need to lift the pyrrosia in this stock tank and divide them, they’re just so happy. I’m not normally a divider but when you’ve got cool plants that are starting to bulk up, you really should make more. Not yet visible (old growth cut down, new growth starting to push) at the rear of the stock tank, Disporum longistylum ‘Night Heron’ is bulking up as well.
One of those happy pyrrosia…
My palms are getting so tall! (the one on the far right is still pushing out fronds in recovery from last winter, the frigid wind did a number on them)
Podophyllum pleianthum
Bamboo, aspidistra, mahonia…
Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Indianola Silver’
Mahonia x media ‘Marvel’
Back when I shared photos from our winter event I called out this agave as a likely casualty. Nope, it’s still looking good.
Finally a quick little project I had to jump in and tackle one afternoon. We’ve had a fair bit of rain the last couple of weeks, thankfully I noticed this container wasn’t draining well. See the water on the left?
I noticed it when I couldn’t do anything about it, but came back the next afternoon and it hadn’t gotten any better.
Since I couldn’t budge the container to try and get the water flowing out I decided I needed to pull the plants, unfortunate since they’d started to really grow together nicely and create a small community.
I had a large galvanized tub in the garage I wasn’t using, so it worked well for relocation.
Once I had everything but the pyrrosia out (it’s planted on a large rock) it was obvious just how bad the water problem is.
Oh and when I say large rock, that thing is over a 12″ wide, and at least 10″ deep. I didn’t plan to ever have to take it back out of the pot.
But it looks like I might have to. At least the pyrrosia is high and dry as the rain continues…
Here’s an opportunity for a little extra blog reading. Pam Penick, of Digging fame, recently shared a post celebrating that her blog is starting it’s 20th (!!!) year. She added a Q&A with a few other long-time bloggers, including me. Read that post here, it’s a good one!
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Reeves scapegoating bats to cut red tape is absurd, says Packham
Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’
Bats are being “scapegoated” by Rachel Reeves, Chris Packham has said, after the chancellor suggested the winged creatures were getting in the way of economic growth.
Reeves recently said she wanted businesses to “focus on getting things built, and stop worrying about the bats and the newts”, and this week the press release announcing her shake-up of all the UK’s regulators mentioned bats six times. A very niche directive to Natural England, the nature watchdog, to take advice from the Bat Conservation Trust out of a planning document, became the linchpin of Reeves’s deregulation plan.
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Use of pesticides on UK farms to be cut by 10% by 2030 to protect bees
Campaigners welcome long-delayed proposals to reduce pesticide-related harms to pollinators
The use of pesticides on UK farms is to be reduced by 10% by 2030 under government plans to protect bees and other pollinators.
Campaigners welcomed the news, but said they were disappointed that the target applied only to arable farms and not to urban areas and parks.
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Anyone else deal with resentment for choosing to live more sustainably?
I quit doing the normal job thing two years ago, one because my back is busted and two because I want to live a better life where I’m more self sufficient. I do odd jobs when I need cash but other than that I work on my own stuff. My garden keeps expanding, my tools and knowledge grows as well. Looking back I’ve made a lot of progress. Despite all this I still get looked down on by certain people because I don’t have a job. I try to tell them I still work, but they automatically assume I’m lazy. My project pile keeps expanding and I keep chipping away at it. I get great satisfaction knowing I’m not filling up landfills or contributing to greenhouses gasses, plus the simple joy of doing it yourself.
I see other people miserable working their 9 to 5 and it seems like they misdirect that anger towards people like me. Instead of being upset at their shitty bosses, this society built on indentured servitude, or the failing politicians and rising cost of living, they look at people who “don’t work”. It’s easier to get angry at the powerless people struggling to survive than to challenge the system that oppressed us all.
I wish there was some way I could make them understand. There have been many times I wanted to go back to being a wage slave. It would be a lot easier to buy new stuff rather than fixing or making my own. I hate that we live in a society where people are only seen to have value if they work for some company. That if I choose to withhold my labor for myself it’s a moral failing.
This really is something new too, go back just a couple generations and being self sufficient was just the way of life. You wouldn’t be looked down on for having a garden, sewing your own blankets, or making your own furniture. It’s only taken a couple generations and now being a wage slave is considered normal, so much so you’ll face ridicule if you decide to break free, even if everyone secretly wishes they could be free too.
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Why do lymphatic vessels form a jigsaw puzzle-like pattern?
While researchers have long been familiar with the surface structure of lymphatic vessels, a groundbreaking study has now focused on their jigsaw puzzle-like pattern. This arrangement helps cells tolerate changes in fluid pressure, such as swelling. Similar cell shapes are found on the surface of plant leaves, and the principle has been employed in human-led design as well.
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