Plant and gardening related maps can be found at plantmaps.com. Compiling historical weather data from NOAA, Plantmaps has created interactive maps outlining average annual frost dates for areas and cities across the United States. Plan and protect you garden. Time seeding and hardening off of starts. Less worry, more fun.
Archive for November, 2010
November 25, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DO, Educate, Grow, Tips
Social Tagging: botany • Climate Information • Gardening Maps • Interactive Maps • NOAA • Plant Maps • Plantmaps • Protect Your Garden From Frost
Filed under: DO, Educate, Grow, Tips
Social Tagging: botany • Climate Information • Gardening Maps • Interactive Maps • NOAA • Plant Maps • Plantmaps • Protect Your Garden From Frost
November 21, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Perspective
Social Tagging: Environmental Landscaping • garden design • Gardening Behavior and Development • Gardening Psychology • Importance of Garden Design • Landscape Sustainability • Planning • Psychological Stages of Gardening • Site Evaluation • Sustainability • The Whole Experience • University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Study
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Perspective
Social Tagging: Environmental Landscaping • garden design • Gardening Behavior and Development • Gardening Psychology • Importance of Garden Design • Landscape Sustainability • Planning • Psychological Stages of Gardening • Site Evaluation • Sustainability • The Whole Experience • University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Study
Ever found yourself driving home from the nursery with a car full of plants, every shape, size and color? You’ve squeezed them in, some one on top of the other. I’ve done this at least twice, both times in spring. The early blooming flowers always catch my eye and lure me in. And then there [...]
November 15, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Ecology, Nature
Social Tagging: 2009 Sundance Selection • 500 Years to Create an Inch of Topsoil • An Historic Event • Dirt! The Movie • Dirt! The Movie Trailer • Documentary Film • love • Organic • Retrievable Resource • Reverence • Soil
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Ecology, Nature
Social Tagging: 2009 Sundance Selection • 500 Years to Create an Inch of Topsoil • An Historic Event • Dirt! The Movie • Dirt! The Movie Trailer • Documentary Film • love • Organic • Retrievable Resource • Reverence • Soil
“Dirt!” My soil science professor cringed at the word. “It’s not dirt,” he would say, and then add with great reverence, “It’s SOIL.” 500 years, chemical and physical weathering, growing plants, expanding roots, and busy critters create approximately 1 inch of topsoil. An historic event. I get it.
November 14, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Inspired, Nature, Perspective
Social Tagging: Amelanchier alnifolia • beauty • Change in Seasons • Changing Gardens • Deliberation • Plan For It • Planning Your Garden for the Seasons • Reflection • Ribes sanguineum • Rudbeckia fulgida • Seasonal Interest
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Inspired, Nature, Perspective
Social Tagging: Amelanchier alnifolia • beauty • Change in Seasons • Changing Gardens • Deliberation • Plan For It • Planning Your Garden for the Seasons • Reflection • Ribes sanguineum • Rudbeckia fulgida • Seasonal Interest
It always happens this time of year. Like a gentle nudge (or a slap in the face) the seasons change. Jarring awake reflection. Shouting, “Hey, look at me! Check this out!” And there is an inexplicable, human force, along with shortened days, giving cause for deliberation. Here’s what I know about change: 1. It’s [...]
November 9, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DO, Fertilize, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Biosol • Fall Fertilizing • Grab N' Grow • Lake Tahoe • OMRI Tested • Organic Fertilizer • Organic Materials • Restoration • Sonoma Compost
Filed under: DO, Fertilize, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Biosol • Fall Fertilizing • Grab N' Grow • Lake Tahoe • OMRI Tested • Organic Fertilizer • Organic Materials • Restoration • Sonoma Compost
With fall comes the rush on local supplies of Biosol. We went to get our share. Each visit to the nursery they were out, expecting a shipment that very afternoon…. I was discussing materials and fertilizers with folks at a sustainable landscaping event down in Sonoma County this last spring. I must say, these people [...]
November 5, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DISCOVER, News, Perspective, Profiles
Social Tagging: Advice • Illumination? • My Botany Diary • News • Russell Crowe • Vanity Fair
Filed under: DISCOVER, News, Perspective, Profiles
Social Tagging: Advice • Illumination? • My Botany Diary • News • Russell Crowe • Vanity Fair
Wow. This is an interesting Vanity Fair article. My Botany Diary, a Russell Crowe conversation captured, it seems, purely for entertainment. Not the first R rated perspective on the world of plants I’ve read, but definitely the most crass. However, behind the profanities and performance promotions, there does appear to be a genuine appreciation for [...]