Hmm, snow....

 Waking up to a lovely snowy scene is not what I usually expect to see in late February, but that's what I saw out the windows this morning.  Cool-season greens and window boxes will still have to wait for warmer weath...

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Global weirding

I wrote a piece ~ seven years ago about what North American gardeners (and botanists) thought about climate change for The Public Garden (at that time, the journal of the American Association of Public Gardens and Arboreta --AABGA, now APGA). It didn't end up being published, probably because it was too telling. American botanical gardens are in denial about what they need to do around conservation...

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Assessing climate impacts

Here in the Southeastern U.S., we've had a very usual year weather-wise.  Way more rain than normal last summer, then bone-chilling cold in the winter.It's made for some interesting losses and die-backs.So, it was a reminder about how extreme our variations were over the past year to read this piece in the NY Times about the impact that extreme cold has had on midwest gardens.  It's telling...

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Hmm, more snow and (potential) ice coming?

Yikes, this winter has been really strange. The Prunus mume (that I saw starting to flower again last weekend) may be totally blasted. At least the predicted temperatures are quite moderate. The forecast is all about snow (and potential ice) and full of hyperbole about snowfall (I think because of all of the previous storms and severe temperatures this winter).We could be inundated...

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