Garden Ethics in a Time of Climate Change
Benjamin Vogt / Monarch Gardens
8 years ago
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Comments (4)If you are in California, I would not recommend tulips. I have never had a daffodil return in my garden either. I believe the summer watering may rot them. Who knows. You will have best success with your plan if you choose South African bulbs to plant with your cactus. I would choose Amaryllis, Hippeastrum, gladiolus, and any other bulb that requires summer dry and winter wet. If you want to really get into exotics in pots you should build a greenhouse and replicate the native conditions of that particular bulb. Here is a link that has good information. Renee Here is a link that might be useful: TelosRareBulbs...See Morefarming and climate change
Comments (91)We'll all come stay with you. I got dibs on the couch. :-) In the hot desert cities, the days of the heavily watered lawns are done - its all gravel xeriscaping, sports fields are artificial turf. Las Vegas is paying a significant amount of money if you tear up your lawn and put gravel - something like $1,000 then the water savings. I don't hang out much in Phoenix, but driving through, all the new construction is xeriscape. I'm on one of the tributaries to the Colorado, my irrigation company has the 2nd most senior rights on the river, #1 being some outfit down in Gateway, a ranch bought up - along with the water rights - by a dot.com tycoon and turned it into a luxury resort so they need the water for their golf course. They've only put in a call once, in history, about 5 years ago. Otherwise, our irrigation company rules the river. Now amongst us shareholders, things are getting interesting this drought season, with the special irrigation deputy sheriff getting 40 calls a day to come sort out squabbles. Even with the senior rights, our irrigation will be shut off in the next few weeks. Unless we get *lucky* and catch one of these massive cloudbursts over the upper watershed....See MoreClimate Change: A wrinkle you may need to know.
Comments (30)Josh, Update on the "Little Ice Ages" of the "middle ages". Those occurred during the Moulder (sp?) minimum, where for a couple centuries the number of sunspots dropped drastically. During this time Europe had extreme winter temperatures that are refereed to "The Little Ice Age", and many people assume this was true for the whole earth. Nope, was not the case. Turns out it was a regional event. While the total radiance of the sun did drop, it was by a very tiny amount. There is little or no evidence of significant cooling over the rest of the globe. The puzzle was why? There has been no know explanation.... until recently. Turns out the sunspots are likely key. Reason being, ultraviolet light. Evidence indicates that ultraviolet light emissions from the sun dropped by up to half due to lack of sunspots. This ultraviolet light heats the upper atmosphere where the ozone is. Less UV=cooler upper atmosphere=changed conditions for the planet and climate. Turns out when you feed these resultant conditions into our current climate models, the jet stream shifts significantly OVER EUROPE and the north Atlantic, but not so much elsewhere. Result is much colder temps over Europe but not elsewhere. This is not proof that is what happened in the "Little Ice Ages", but it is a mechanism, and is an area of continued research. Assuming this turns out to be essentially correct as appears to be likely, then far from refuting that small changes in temperature will have little effect, it actually confirms it. Lastly, for those of you that don't understand the way that science is set up, it's not the same as the corporate world we are all familiar with. Everyone is trying to make a name for themselves. It's not profit (though money can come if your successful enough), but recognition. The way you do that is prove you are you are right. But to way to REALLY make a reputation is to PROVE everyone else WRONG and that your RIGHT. Why do you suppose you know the name Albert Einstein? Answer, he PROVED EVERYONE else wrong, and I do mean EVERYONE, and himself RIGHT. The upheaval that Einstein created happen once a century or two at most. Issac Newton, Darwin, Galileo, among a few others are comparable. Science is self correcting, that is why the story can change over time, but usually actually just becomes more complex as the understanding becomes more complete. So for a climate scientist the ideal would not be to confirm the current thinking, but to actually sink it. Problem is, that is looking less and less even a remote possibility. Arktrees...See MoreClimate change, anyone, cont'd
Comments (2)Hi,Olya. Thank you for clarifying things.:-) I'm glad to know that we are friends for that means alot to me. I also do not want to hurt peoples feelings. I get very emotional when I see what is going on in our society. I see it crumbling at such a fast pace. At the same time I see what greed and carelesness are doing to our environment. We live in such a beautiful planet. I have appreciate it since I can remember. I have been a boy scout and learned to always leave a place cleaner than how I found it. Never to carve on trees. I have learned never to waste anything. My mother told me as a very young child never to waste. When I was in my teens I was told that the time would come before 2000,that trees would be a rarety. They would be found only in special places like a museum. I saw Hudson river in NY so polutted that there were signs not to swim due to toxic conditions. I felt so negative about my future that I began to look for a hope. That came in the form of finding my faith. I was an agnostic myself. In my faith I found hope and much more. I'm glad that is 2009 and there are plenty of trees. I have planted dozens of trees in my life. Hudson river is so much cleaner that I would take my older boy crabbing for the crabs retuned. Not only did I get hope in my faith but by educating people,people became more responsive of their environment. And the polution was reverse. I have been a bird watcher and have tought what I believe to my three children and now grandchildren. I am doing my part and that is my responsibility. Hey,my roses are blooming like crazy. I hope to get some picture uploaded. Hugs,my friend. Felix...See MoreUser
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