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Comments (61)"Husband said he likes the "golf course look." I guess he was talking about only the fairways since most golf courses have beautiful plantings on their courses. Sigh. They took down every old oak and large tree on their property destroying a beautiful woodland garden in half of their backyard area that was planted by the previous owner." And that kind of humancentric, bulldozer mentality is exactly what has killed off HALF of this planet's flora and fauna in just the past 40 years!!! Two million acres, an area the size of Yellowstone National Park, are lost to development each year We have converted 62,500 sq miles (40 million acres) to suburban lawn in the U.S. Because 54% of the U.S. is now in cities or suburbs, and 41% is in agriculture, biodiversity will have to survive in those areas if it is going to survive at all. 96% of all terrestrial birds rear their young on insects. No insects; no baby birds. 90% of all insects that eat plants require native plants to complete their development. So, here's more of the solution: Brad Lancaster's permaculture home in Tucson AZ "I learned the expensive way, by removing 30 100ft tall redwoods after they destroyed my pool, irrigation, and sewer pipes. But thankfully i got rid of them before the rotten ones fell on the school bus stop in front of my house. $50k cost was a wake up call." Or more simply, people just shouldn't be building their houses in the middle of a full-grown forest to begin with. Isn't the loss of 30 massive 100' trees, and all the wildlife they supported...the real wake-up call here?...See MoreLet’s share January blooms or anything pretty
Comments (43)Thanks, you never know where I'll show up. ;-) Its my understanding that the IPG collection was privately owned by someone who lived in Cananda and was then gifted to IPG in owners later years. IPG has had this only for a little over 10 years now....See MoreLet’s see some hosta flowers
Comments (82)Irish Eyes just getting started in one of my weedy beds This one comes with a story from years ago. I was at Wade and Gatton, after a great day and getting my order written up, when a car pulls up. It was Dick and Jane Ward, come to visit Van. And my sister and I are standing there with one of their plants in our hands! They were lovely people, chatted a bit about what a nice plant i had picked, LOL! That’s it for my encounters with Famous Hosta folks - other than Van Wade, whose place I visited many times....See MoreLet’s talk about funeral homes!
Comments (47)My mother had purchased her interment site decades ago - in her hometown, where she hadn't lived for the decades since. She had also picked out a dress to be buried in, and had shown it to me several times in the years before her final illness. She was in a nursing home in my town, 115 miles away, with hospice. The nursing home (or hospice, I don't recall which) arranged for her remains to be picked up by a local mortuary after death was declared. I arranged the funeral with the funeral home in her hometown, that had been used by my family many times. They arranged to have the body transported to them, handled all of the paperwork (including obtaining the death certificate from my county), and placed the obit that I wrote in the local paper. 3 of my 4 siblings, my aunt and her best friend, and 2 of 5 my nieces came to the small service that we had in a parlor of the funeral home. There was no one else who knew or were friends with her (and I had no friends that I had remained in contact with) left in town. My niece's husband (they lived locally) arranged for the chaplain from his work to give a little homily and lead prayer; I found a musician to play 3-4 of her favorite hymns on guitar. Then all we went to the interment at the cemetery. One of my SILs arranged with someone she knew to prepare and serve a casual lunch in a facility at the cemetery for us. BTW, that was the only family member who did anything - the others never even offered - to arrange or help pay for it all. Mom didn't have any insurance benefit or funds left to help pay. ETA: I did all this really out of respect for my elderly aunt - that it pleased my sister and 2 of her daughters was nice but really not a consideration. My brothers wouldn't have minded either way, but I was glad that the oldest drove up from Tennessee - I hadn't seen him in many years, and probably never will again - I was 7 when he left home at the age of 18 and we were never close as adults. At the time it was rather a stretch for my finances. So, I did negotiate with the funeral home about the charges; in fact, I declined their caskets and found a company that sold and delivered lovely caskets in Cincinnati at a much lower cost....See Morelindac92
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