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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
The grapes of wrath
Grape Hyacinths that is
Muscari leucostomum
Muscari psuedo-muscari
Muscari inconstrictum
A while back I had to give a lecture on erosion control to a bunch of governmental agencies. I found myself doing some research on the history of the topic. Interestingly enough the dust bowl still ranks as the worst manmade ecological disaster of all time. Can you imagine if 80% of Oregon's topsoil was picked up and blown 4 states over? Ya, kinda scary. Poor farming practices and years of drought can do that. Hopefully through education we have better farming practices but we have been in a pretty big drought cycle in middle America for the last few years....just food for thought and nothing at all to do with flower bulbs.
Pouring like a mutha here in the valley right now. On call duty for flooding creeks so gotta stay close to the phone.
Cheers,
Mark
Muscari leucostomum
Muscari psuedo-muscari
Muscari inconstrictum
A while back I had to give a lecture on erosion control to a bunch of governmental agencies. I found myself doing some research on the history of the topic. Interestingly enough the dust bowl still ranks as the worst manmade ecological disaster of all time. Can you imagine if 80% of Oregon's topsoil was picked up and blown 4 states over? Ya, kinda scary. Poor farming practices and years of drought can do that. Hopefully through education we have better farming practices but we have been in a pretty big drought cycle in middle America for the last few years....just food for thought and nothing at all to do with flower bulbs.
Pouring like a mutha here in the valley right now. On call duty for flooding creeks so gotta stay close to the phone.
Cheers,
Mark
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Chilean Blue Crocus
Tecophilea cyanocrocus just popping up in the greenhouse.
I was giving a lecture on urban Stormwater management to an environmental studies class at the university this morning. I had a slide challenging them to look toward the future and the possibilities of pollutant removal through transgenic hyper accumulation gene expression in new plant cultivars.....I mostly got some blank stares and realized I really should have been a research scientist..... man, what I wouldn't give to have unlimited funds backing my greenhouse and laboratory!
Anyway, the blue crocus is here because I'm giving a talk to our local native plant society chapter next month and I've got a bit in there about responsible grazing and pasture management to preserve native flora....the blue crocus is the lorax of bulbs as regards uncontrolled grazing.
Crocus scepusciensis
I think this has a new name?
39 degrees, rainy with a pretty good wind field setting up today.
Cheers,
Mark
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The first frit of 2013
Fritillaria striata is coming on, and since I use this blog as much for my own personal garden journal as I do for your viewing pleasure; I did the first fertilizer application this past Saturday.
Suns out today but we are supposed to be moving into a cold wet period...oh well it feels good in the greenhouse.
Cheers,
Mark
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Iris?
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