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Heronswood being moved to pa.!!!!!! oh nooooo
Comments (2)Shock. Denial. Anger. Grief. Acceptance. Going to Newbury Perennial Gardens to drown my sorrow. Typical of a big corporate buyouts. At the purchase time, the line is always that "we like it the way it is. If it ain't broke don't fix it." But in a few years, that always changes. Don't let the fox in the hen house, no matter what it promises before about not eating the chickens. You know it's the nature of the fox to eat chickens. Big businesses are about cranking as much profit as possible, and finding ways to make an already profitable business more profitable usually involves a very big change, as Dan Hinkley discovered. I hope he starts a new operation after the no-compete period is over....See MoreI feel so sad
Comments (10)In most cases, I'm fairly sure that the damage to the animal would be too serious to permit it to recover. It usually would be best to put it out of its misery ... and, if that is the choice, the sooner, the better. If you have a hammer or other heavy object in the car, hit it on the top or fore-part of the head ... hard. If recovery to a half-decent kind of life isn't going to be possible. I know that it's difficult. There were two small kittens here a while ago that were crying piteously, one day - distemper, I think. They died within a few hours. I should have hit them, but couldn't. A couple of days later, the third one went through the same agony ... maybe I should have taken it to the vet after the first two died. I didn't do it in, either, unfortunately. Their bodies still lie in the garage - I haven't had the heart to bury them. About a month ago, a couple of kittens in the barn, too young to have their eyes fully open, had the same problem. It was when I was looking after my friend's hunting dog and he wondered whether the dog might have been responsible, but I didn't think so. The first one was out in the open, but showed no marks, or moisture from the dog's saliva, etc. The second was under an old enamelled sink ... but the dog could have got at it. I doubt that it would have left it in there, though. It's a difficult choice ... and even more difficult to implement. ole joyful P.S. Millions in northern, eastern and central Africa, having suffered the ravages of drought and, as herdspeople, loss of most of their animals for several years ... now are displaced from their homes by the insurrections, rebellions and warfare. Thousands, many of them children, die every month. Zimbabwe, formerly bread-basket of Africa ... now is a basket case ... thousands rely on U.N. food aid. Also Tibet. Burma/Myanmar. Iraq. Afghanistan. Georgia (the Asian one). o j...See Morelarge slope behind pool in our backyard
Comments (27)Thanks for your appreciation for my approach, s8us89ds, and I like the the points you have made about opportunities to create habitat and ecosystems. (Disclosure: I am a restoration ecologist, by profession, and this is what I do, even at home: create habitat.) I've observed that birds, in particular, find my yard more a more useful and better place to hang out than elsewhere in the neighborhood, which is a 1970s tract development with lots generally in the 1/5- to 1/3- acre range. This is a big plus, aesthetically, for me, along with the visual pleasure of the tapestry of chaparral plants. The other great advantage to taking this approach, as you point out, is that it is inexpensive and can pretty much be done by anyone who can dig a minimal planting hole in unimproved soil (what you want when planting natives) while standing on a steep slope. Blanchette, a bit of advice, with reference to "craning in" large oaks or olives. Planting a relatively modest-sized tree and letting it establish from a younger age invariably works out better, in my experience, than the instant (but generally short-lived) gratification of installing a large tree. Beyond the eye-popping expense of buying and installing mega-trees, there are often major, years-long problems with establishment that need to be skillfully managed when using such trees. Fine if you are up to doing that, but often a disappointment. Case in point: about 10 years ago, a neighbor a few houses up my street had a very large olive tree (was at least the 300-gallon size) installed (using a crane, etc.) in his front yard about the same time I planted a gallon-sized olive in my back yard. His tree has developed significant root problems and it has lost two-thirds of its canopy; the tree is, at best, barely surviving and unhealthy -- not to mention disfigured because of major branches having to be amputated. The olive tree I planted is now larger than his (in fact, is currently about the same size he started with) and quite healthy. I personally won't plant anything larger than a gallon-sized plant and consider 5-gallon the upper limit....See Morethanksgiving and easter cactus.
Comments (2)If you get cuttings you'll just have tiny plants for a long time. Why not go buy a fully grown plant which you can enjoy at this time? With fall coming, you might even have a bloom in not too long. You could take cuttings from that plant to grow your own. If you can afford postage, maybe you can scrape up enough for a full plant (no sarcasm at all)....See Moretsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
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