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Comment on Castanea dentata by Recent Links Tagged With "sprout" - JabberTags

Recent Links Tagged With "sprout" - JabberTags — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:19:05 +0000

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Comment on On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other things Florida (Cornus florida) by Topics about Animal-festivals » On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other things

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:10:23 +0000

[...] Knecht’s placed an interesting blog post on On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other thingsHere’s a brief overviewThe pink plastic flamingo was designed by Don Featherstone in 1957. The Dogwood tree (Cornus florida) was first cultivated in 1731 (Dirr 1998) [...]

Comment on On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other things Florida (Cornus florida) by Topics about Animal-festivals » On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other things

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:10:23 +0000

Comment on On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other things Florida (Cornus florida) by Topics about Animal-festivals » On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other things …

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:30:42 +0000

[...] ryan added an interesting post on On Returning - Pink Dogwoods, Plastic Flamingos, and other things …Here’s a small excerptThe pink plastic flamingo was designed by Don Featherstone in 1957. The Dogwood tree (Cornus florida) was first cultivated in 1731 (Dirr 1998) Don. [...]

Comment on Native recombinations by Emily

Emily — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:28:33 +0000

Beautiful pictures of our native landscape. I think too often people view aesthetics in landscape as manicured and controlled and view natives as “unruley” and “messy.” It is certainly an educational process in making the case for natives as both important ecosystem enhancers and attractive year-round. The simplicity of the contrast between the grasses and berries is striking.

Comment on Assimina triloba by Erin

Erin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:57:20 +0000

I too recently discovered the paw paw tree. I read about it in “Follow the River” and went hunting them. I found several groves on the mountain behind my house and anxiously waited for them to ripen so that I could taste them. They ripened in Last Oct. and were very good, if not very pretty. I think that these wonderful fruit were lost to us for several reasons. 1. They are not very attractive. (People that I show them too invariably ask if they are ripe when they are not, and rotten when they are ripe.) Apparently there was a song taught in country schools about picking up paw paws and putting them in the basket. May of the people that I speak to from the (60+) generation remember this song, but children of a lesser age do not. 2. They don’t hold or ship well. They have to rippen on the limp and only last a day or 2 if not refrigerated. 3. They are difficult to and messy to eat, do to the number of seeds and pulpy texture. Consequently this also makes them hard to cook with. 4. The trees are apparently very difficult to transplant. They have a long fragile tap root and while they need shade for the first 3 or more years to rippen they then need sun in the later stages.

I have sought out recipes for this delicious fruit and found a couple of great web sites.
http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/pawpaw/recipes.htm
http://members.aol.com/blaneky/recipes.htm
http://www.petersonpawpaws.com/Facts.php

Comment on on stuff and staying home. by on bstuff/b and staying home.

on bstuff/b and staying home. — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:50:14 +0000

[...] ryan wrote an interesting post today onon bstuff/b and staying home.Here’s a quick excerptIna culture overun with bstuff/b, people makeing bstuff/b, and people working ever harder to pay for more bstuff/b, someone cooked up some terrible idea to get people to stay at home, watch more advertisements, and ultimatley buy more bstuff/b. b…/b [...]

Comment on memorial to the former memorial. by O. Horse

O. Horse — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:08:51 +0000

No doubt, dude. Memorials is over done these days. I kept that in mind when designing the O. Horse Brown Memorial in downtown Arab, Alabama. It’s simple in concept and exectution and you can see it in the median of the highway right across from the Hardees.

Here’s what it is: a calcified 1982 EL Camino sittin on ceiling fans instead of wheels, with machine gun barrels sticking out the front and Christmas lights down the side that spell, in cursive, The Mullet of Automobiles.

And you might ask, where’s O. Horse in the architectural tribute? And then–BAM!–you look on the hood of the calcified car, and you see a painting, not of O. Horse, but of his favorite basketball player–Jason Kidd, wearing a Phoenix Suns jersey and throwing an alley-oop to Bob Sura, except instead of Bob Sura’s head, it’s O. Horse’s head.

Now that’s a memorial.

Comment on Exploring the Anacostia 2… nurses and kings by Tom Aloisi

Tom Aloisi — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:15:49 +0000

yer in luck! the building is NOT being destroyed!

Comment on Castanea dentata by Dan

Dan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:53 +0000

Interesting, I didn’t know that about the Chestnut Tree. I’ve always loved the fanning leaves and white flowers of the chestnut, and wondered why there weren’t more of them.
Sadly the same thing happened with Dutch Elm Disease half a century later. And now we are facing the same danger with the Asian Longhorn Beetle and the Asian Ash Borer.
Perhaps the lesson of the day is to avoid monocultural plantings, as alluring as they can be. Biodiversity just keeps proving to be a better way.
Gorgeous pictures, by the way, thanks!