Found this old thread after doing a search for Far Reaches. We hope to make a visit there this coming Friday. I'm sure I read this thread back in the day as it was shocking and sad that Heronswood seemed to be going away, nursery, gardens, plants, it's people and all. It's interesting looking back knowing how things have turned out lately with the s'klallam tribe having bought and taken over the property, it's gardens and that Dan is at least partially involved in a restoration and expansion of the gardens. At least that's what he said at a Bellevue Botanical Gardens lecture by John Anderson, the Keeper of the Gardens at Windsor Castle. It was a nice talk that was at times funny and others a bit dry, but still enjoyable for this plant nerd. But I must say seeing Dan and hearing that he was still involved in the Northwest plant scene was one of my fav moments. We have been planning a trip to Far Reaches for several years and it always gets postponed as it is quite a drive and really takes an entire day. We have the day off and the weather seems to be cooperating and I have my eye on some epimediums, some Podophyla and some dactylorhiza and I'm sure a few surprise plants will catch our eye and drain our pocketbooks, I've been aware of Kelly and Sue's work for many years and purchased a few plants from them when their nursery was called Reflections Gardens. It was a rather small affair with not much in the way of display gardens and when we first walked up to the selection of plants to buy it seemed uninspiring. But as we walked the few aisles of plants we first saw one cool plant and then another and pretty soon we had a car load heading home with us. They've been settled at Far Reaches for many years now and having perused their catalog I know there are many gems to find.

I raw feed, and use the Honest Kitchen 'Embark' for travel, or for times when I don't have enough fresh or thawed food. It's excellent nutrition and the dogs like it. Reasonably priced since a 10 pound box makes the equivalent of 40 pounds of food. At Doggiefood.com it's $69 for 10 pounds, or 4 boxes for $269, which is the best price I've seen.

The main question was "How could we discover that we resided on a spinning globe?" The other questions were aftertoughts. Some clues are: 1. Behavior of Focault's pendulum. 2. Low pressure atomspheric regions spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. The reason is associated with earth's rotation, but without knowledge of earth's spin, would mankind have connected the two? 3. The firing of a long range gun: Given a long range gun located 45 deg north of the equator, if it is fired toward south, the projectile tends to fall west of the target; If it fired north, the projectile tends to fall east of the target. Not only does this information demonstrates earth's spin, it also shows the direction of the spin. This effect is small and is measurable only for very long projectile distances. Without aastronomy, it would have been very difficult for mankind to have made this discovery.

Quite simply Potash, or pot ash, is derived from soaking plant ash in a pot of water to produce a water soluble fertilizer. Google does not want to tell me about L-losing Monohydrochloride. Soybean meal and distilled grains may be sourced from Genetically Engineered plants. This product seems to me to be a very expensive way to grow a lawn, and along with Ringer products not something I would choose to use.