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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 [...] read more

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 [...] read more

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 [...] read more

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 [...] read more

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, [...] read more

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' [...] read more

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. [...] read more

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 read more

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 [...] read more

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 [...] read more

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. read more

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 [...] read more

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: read more

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 [...] read more

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 [...] read more

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 [...] read more

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 [...] read more

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. [...] read more

Early blooms

March 05, 2012 by Craig Cramer

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Early start to the bloom season here. Eranthis Snowdrops Pussy willow read more

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 read more