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Raver’s Way– Wild – NYTimes.com

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  • In Philadelphia, a Garden Grows Wild – NYTimes.com

    • Ms. Ruddick decided to embrace the philosophy embodied in a line she remembered from an old New Yorker: “Don’t just do something. Stand there!”

    • She worked for years in India, she said, where people stop for the rituals that mark the passages of life.

      “How many times has somebody gotten married, and you just can’t go because of too much work or something?” she asked. “They don’t miss these things. The whole place stops. I feel like we just don’t stop enough.”

      What a radical thought: just standing there, in the gardens, and in our lives, too.

Anne Raver NY Times | Reveals Brine Garden as Favorite | The Horticultural Society of New York

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Anne’s Favorites:

Bill Noble and Jim Tatum in their rolling valley in Norwich, VT;
Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones at Windcliff, overlooking the Puget Sound in Indianola, WA;
Dennis and Cheryl Kamera on nearby Whidbey Island;
and closer to home, Duncan and Julia Brine, who have created six acres of wild, painterly gardens in Pawling, NY

 

 

Gardening Alert: Nut Glut and Lyme’s Disease Relate

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  • Acorn glut signals Lyme risks | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal – Annotated

     

    • In the 20 years we’ve been monitoring tree seed production, this is the first time we’ve seen such an acorn glut.

       

    • We have been tracking acorn production by Hudson Valley oaks for 20 years and have consistently seen a spike in cases of Lyme disease in Dutchess County residents two years after large acorn mast years.

       

    • If oak trees produced a modest acorn crop each year, they’d run the risk of having every one consumed and leaving no descendants. But if they make few seeds in most years, then let loose with a bumper crop, it’s likely some acorns will survive the onslaught of hungry consumers. This is called “predator satiation” and is exactly what we find in our northeastern forests.