Showing posts with label horticulture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horticulture. Show all posts

Monday, October 22, 2007

Weekend Photoblogging...

..."Weekend" being used loosely as it's Monday...

This week the ISW is proud to feature photos from maggie_and_her_camera. Maggie is studying horticulture and has taken a slew of illustrative plant shots. Mixed in there are a few invasives, including:


Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford')
Originally uploaded by maggie_and_her_camera

Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
Originally uploaded by maggie_and_her_camera

Do check out the rest of maggie's photography, if you are into plants (like I am) you will find it quite nice. Bonus points to her for sharing these photos under a Creative Commons license!

Monday, March 12, 2007

Ball Bearings

Almost a year to the day, someone in the Yahoo! group for the ma-eppc recently asked about last year's diatribe by Burpee Seed Company President George Ball, regarding "botanical xenophobes" and how we're all misinformed and overreacting to non-native plants. Ball was wrong on so many accounts...read my original post for details.

After sending Burpee a passionate email (to which they never responded) I pledged last year to boycott the company, and it saddened me to bypass Burpee seeds, always my favorite in the past, for other seeds when I started my garden this season. Ah, the bad memories! Well, if they're getting dredged up for me, they're getting dredged up for you too: