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Once and future community gardeners
April 03, 2012 by Lynn
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ITEM: We are officially members of the Woodlawn community garden. If that is even its name. There is no sign, no contact information, nothing formal about it at all, so getting in was a matter of stalking to find anyone who might be willing to part with a phone number. Seems it’s a loose affiliation [...]
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Titan arum time lapse
March 31, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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Finally had a chance to pull together a time lapse from the still camera I had running during the titan arum bloom-time at Cornell. We had more than 10.000 people visit (many standing in line for more than an hour) and close to half a million views on livestreams. It was a blast. More info [...]
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Coltsfoot: It’s Not A Dandelion–Wildflower Wednesday March 2012
March 28, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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You could be forgiven for mistaking coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) for a dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) from a distance,especially if you didn’t know that coltsfoot is the earliest blooming wildflower in northeastern North America. Can you tell them apart when I put them next to each other?Furthermore, coltsfoot flowers bloom without any foliage at all. Dandelions send [...]
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Hard Freeze, But No Frost: What Gives?
March 27, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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Very early this morning, the temperature bottomed out at 18F, so my max-min thermometer tells me. And yet, when I looked out my window, there was not a speck of frost on the grass. If I hadn’t consulted the thermometer, I would have thought it was a lovely spring day out there. (The grass has [...]
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Sudden Freeze After Days of Warmth
March 24, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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74F Last Thursday, 16F Predicted Monday Cold climate gardeners, we knew this was going to happen, didn’t we? After the incredible, pinch-me-I’m-dreaming spell of beautifully warm weather, the real March weather is coming back with a vengeance. I don’t think it got quite as warm here as it did other places in my general area, [...]
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Spring, quickly
March 24, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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I missed a month of spring in the week or so I was working close to 24/7 on the titan arum blooming at work. But I did have a few minutes to shoot some pix as the early spring bloomers rushed by with the unseasonably warm weather. Crocus Hellebore Iris reticulata Iris histrioides 'Katharine Hodgkin' [...]
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Titan arum time lapse
March 24, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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‘Wee Stinky’ draws crowds to Cornell - The towering titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) attracted about 10,000 visits, including more than 3,500 on March 19 alone. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle. Time lapse: Shows spathe opening on March 18, 2012. Audio description by graduate student Gwynne Lim is from March 19. Larger version at CornellCast. [...]
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Titan arum pix
March 21, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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I was way too busy to take many pictures of the titan arum bloom. But if you missed the event, there are plenty of places you can see why it was so exciting: Huffington Post slideshow - Must see! Titan arum at Cornell University Ithaca Journal slideshow - Great article too. More images via Google
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Peony Rescue with Cobrahead
March 20, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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The unseasonably mild weather has prompted me to start in on garden clean-up. And since the garden was untended for at least a year, there is a lot of cleaning up to do. This was what the garden looked like last year in early June, the first time we went to see the house we [...]
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It’s here. We nearly missed it.
March 20, 2012 by Lynn
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We left 5 days ago in early spring weather, but arrived home late today, the first day of spring, to find the season nearly passed us by. At 84 degrees, this is the 7th straight day of at or over record temps in Chicago. The same is forecast for tomorrow. No one wants to contemplate [...]
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About to bloom!
March 18, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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Craig is sequestered on campus waiting for the Titan Arum to bloom. It's starting now and should be open tonight. Craig is making updates on the Cornell Titan Arum blog if you want to follow along.
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GardenStalking: A New Way to Browse Blogs
March 16, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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Veteran garden bloggers probably remember Garden Voices. “Back in the day”–before Twitter, before Facebook, even before Blotanical–it was the best way to find new garden blogs. Garden Voices is a blog aggregator, a website that collects–or aggregates–posts about a certain topic, so you can get an idea of what the blogosphere is saying about that [...]
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Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum): High quality feed
March 16, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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We had some real pros donate some time to come in and set up a high quality live feed. Might be Saturday might. Might be Sunday. When it flowers, we'll light it until 11 p.m. video platform video management video solutions video player Here's a screen capture from the lighting test tonight:
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Snowdrops and Winter Aconites and More: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2012
March 15, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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There is nothing blooming at my new (to me) garden. That lack will have to be rectified. But my daughter Cadence was going right by the old place yesterday, and I asked her to take pictures. So I can tell you that the winter aconites (Eranthis spp.) are now blooming. I was there less than [...]
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Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) flowering at Cornell University (livestream)
March 15, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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So much going on outside with the unseasonably warm weather. But my week has been tied up with setting up this live feed and other logistics with our 'blessed event' here at Cornell: Live video for mobile from Ustream You won't see anything in the stream until daylight. But we will light it when the [...]
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Garden Tool Shed Organization Help Needed
March 11, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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Desperate Gardener Seeks Help Whipping Shed Into Shape When we moved here late last fall, we pretty much threw all the garden tools and equipment in the shed and turned our attention to arranging the inside of the house. Now that mud season is here and spring will soon arrive in earnest, I need to [...]
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Snowdrop Bouquets
March 10, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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One six ounce glass of snowdrops… yields……eleven small but exquisite snowdrop bouquets. Snowdrops have a fragrance that is similar to sweet alyssum or certain daffodils (not poeticus or jonquils). We picked these at the old garden and the truck was filled with the scent of them on the way home. I will be moving as [...]
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Is it too early?
March 09, 2012 by Lynn
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…to indoctrinate our 10-month-old into the cult of gardening? Besides introducing him to the fun of playing in the dirt (once he gets past the urge to eat it), I can’t wait to get him crap like this: And this: But I kind of want this for myself. It would make the fairies so happy. [...]
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Early blooms
March 05, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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Early start to the bloom season here. Eranthis Snowdrops Pussy willow
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A forest of tree stories
March 04, 2012 by Lynn
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How did I miss this? A blog just for trees. It’s an aggregator, spreading the tree love. Kinda wonder why they didn’t name it Silva rerum. If you love all things tree, go read, and Submit your posts, videos, and photos, too. Filed under: the trees Tagged: the trees
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Where to plant bulbs? Following my own advice
March 02, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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A couple of years ago, I told you to choose your fall-planted bulb locations now, when the snow is just beginning to melt. Of course, it helps to have snow. We finally got some, and I thought you’d like to know I’m following my own advice. I went around the yard, camera in hand, taking [...]
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Music for thunderstorms
March 02, 2012 by Lynn
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…am I the only one who sees what’s going on? Filed under: music I love Tagged: DeVotchka, music I love
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Forced Hyacinths
February 26, 2012 by Kathy Purdy
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Forcing hyacinths is not that difficult. The hardest part is remembering to order them early and start chilling them soon enough. If you want them to bloom in mid-January, you should start chilling them by October 23rd. At that point in the gardening season, you are more likely to be frantically planting the last of [...]
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Time-telling flora
February 24, 2012 by Lynn
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Many of us use the appearance of flowers in the landscape to signal seasons. Here’s Jun Gao doing interesting work with flowers and photography to mark time. I’ve been tired of straight-ahead pictures of plants, my own especially. Though his time-lapse images, some taken over many days, look aged and worn, they feel fresh. Floral [...]
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Bloom day scan
February 14, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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Slim pickin's and sloppy. But I'm hoping to have some actual blooms in March.
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Snowdrops
February 13, 2012 by Craig Cramer
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What with our Zone 7 winter thus far (knock wood), we've had snow drops. In Minns Garden on campus ... And even a few at home, where it's a little colder ...
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On the map
February 05, 2012 by Lynn
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I was pretty excited to find out that Cornell Plantations used my images for the front and back of their new visitor map. These were taken on a pristine spring day among the blooming crabapples, when my only job was to be outside exploring beauty. I’ll take that job any time. Filed under: garden, good [...]
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Happy Monday: covered in bees
January 30, 2012 by Lynn
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Not writing on colony collapse or honey spinning, just laughing. Filed under: Happy Monday Tagged: bees, Happy Monday
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Simple sweetness, snow version
January 28, 2012 by Lynn
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By Paul Octavious, Chicago photographer and designer Filed under: inspiration Tagged: Chicago, inspiration, snow, winter
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Better elephant news: babies!
January 27, 2012 by Lynn
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Better news for elephants today, from the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. When we were in Nairobi, we visited the elephant orphanage at Sheldrick, an incredible day. The mama and baby elephants in this video are at their preserve in East Tsavo. The orphans were rescued as babies when their mothers are killed, almost always by poachers. [...]
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