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Hi all - First time posting! We are new homeowners and new to gardening and lawn care in general, so hoping we can some advice from the website! I have been browsing for a while but wanted to post a specific question for my situation.
When we first moved in, we had a mulched area in our back yard where a low juniper ground cover was growing. We wanted to turn part of that area to lawn because it was a fairly large area that could be turned into lawn so our son can run around in the yard. So we took the plant out. But we never got around to cleaning up and seeding right away and almost 6 months passed. During the spring/summer, we had LOTS of weeds growing there - all kinds, short and tall, which we tried to yank out, mow, etc. as we could get to, but since we didnt have anything other than soil there, they kept coming back. Now that it's fall, we are finally hoping to get that lawn started. We are going to have one raised bed in that area for vegetable gardening, and keeping a portion of that as flower bed. However, maybe 2/3 to 1/2 of that mulched area we want to turn it to lawn. It is not entirely mulched either since much of mulch has composted, etc and much of it looks like soil now. And where the ground cover was in, there is no mulch. So basically now it looks like a large area of weeds. There still are some woody stems of Junipers in the ground as well.
I am not sure how to go about with this.
We do not want to use chemicals in our lawn and if we have to do some digging, that's fine. Should we try to hoe it up, topsoil and seed? Or hoe it up and sod? Also, should we be trying to dig out as much root as possible before we do any of that? I dont think root is alive but they are still there (some). Area is not that big, so if we have to dig up, we could. It will just take take time and effort especially being newbies..
I am afraid even after taking everything out, once we start watering for seeds to germinate or sod to root down, it's going to germinate many weed seeds in the area as well.
thanks for your assistance in advance!
First off, you should understand that a weed is growing there because the soil is poor and the weed has no problem pushing out any grass that wants to come in.
And, if you cut a weed...and not get the root....it comes back stronger and bigger than it was before. So, when you just cut them with your mower, you are doing them a favor.
You don't want to use chemicals. When I hear that from some people who I think don't realize the importance of just what chemistry has done for us I recall a well-known ad from an American company...
:better things, for better living.....thru chemistry.
Your wish to not use chemicals then brings up the need to learn about "organic" gardening--natural methods of controlling how your soil grows plants.
That is a long-term fix.
The amount of soil problems will determine what you have to do.
Fist off I'd say your soil is under-nourished. You could get a soil test done. Your local state funded college extension service is your best bet or possibly the local full-service nursery may do these tests.
Soil tests generally will tell you what your soil needs to perform what plants you have in mind.
If you do decide the job of getting rid of the weeds by inorganic method you can resort to the use of "Roundup"...a non-selective weed killer that will kill anything and everything green.
It does allow you to re-plant within a specified time--usually about 3 weeks.
Other broadleafed weed killers kills most weeds, but leaves the natural grass unharmed.
I would recommend you do a complete aeration of the area with a rented machine. This removes plugs which can help relieve compacted soil. Then the plugs are allowed to compost back into the soil.
Overseeding of grass (you choose the proper type) followed by topping of a good topsoil or compost spread 1/2" over the entire area every spring, every fall.
This builds organic matter into the soil which promotes growth of grass and other plants.
Depending on the size of the area, this can be rather expensive so the need to find a trusted soil dealer comes into the picture.
Then proper watering and fertilizing can help bring you the lawn you desire. Again, staying 'organic' not using chemical fertilizers, can delay your lawn result.
Do some research yourself about "organic gardening" and what that entails. You may wish to re-evaluate your wish to not use chemicals.
The juniper roots that are still there are sending up stems and will continue to do so for a time but eventually will die off. Just keep cutting them with the lawnmower.
If you decide to sod the area, you must get rid of any grass that is there. Sod will not root if it has to fight its way past grass roots already there.
Digging up the area, turning it over, you should then add at least 6" of good topsoil (compost preferably) and turn that under. Weeds can be removed as you unearth them and yes, any weed roots missed will come back.
You could treat them as you see them. If hubby has a propane torch, you can burn them out.
Short term methods can also employ something that burns the roots. Window glass, letting the sun d the work, laid over the area will kill the weeds in no time. Vinegar will kill weeds but will also affect nearby greenery.
Overlaying of a material that prevents sunlight can also work. But this method is long-term.
goren and I disagree a lot so you'll have to try to discern the issues and decide for yourself.
The time to seed is in the late summer. Where do you live? There might be an exception. Generally, though, this leaves sodding as your best alternative at this time.
Never add more topsoil unless you are trying to correct a poor drainage issue. Why? Because adding top soil always changes your drainage. Usually it makes things worse because the topsoil was not needed to begin with. I drove by a house today that had its lawn 5 inches higher than the concrete and the adjacent lawn. They have probably top dressed every year like goren suggests. If you only top dressed 1/2 inch per year, it would take 10 years to get 5 inches too much. Top dressing is on my list of no-nos for lawn care. Here is a picture of a different lawn where they have had to install borders to keep the top soil from flowing onto the sidewalk.
Your woody juniper stems are actually roots, still in the ground, correct? They should not be growing. Once you cut a juniper off at ground level, it is dead.
How big an area are we talking about? I'm thinking about tools you can use for larger areas to prep the soil for new sod. Do you have more than 5,000 square feet? More than 10,000? And we really need to know where you live.
I don't see any reason to aerate either. You did not mention that you have hard soil, but even if you do, there are much easier ways to soften it than bucking around behind a 700 pound aerator. Search this forum for "shampoo".
Using organic fertilizer will absolutely not delay your lawn. In fact you can apply organic fertilizer every week if you think it is getting behind the neighbor's lawns. Nothing will speed up the establishment faster than repeated organic fertilizer. Go to the Organic Gardening Forum, find the FAQs, and scroll to the bottom of the list. There you will find the Organic Lawn Care FAQ. It gives you an orientation to modern organic gardening. It is the first update on organic gardening since Rodale first started writing about compost in the 1930s. The modern approach skips compost and goes straight to the ingredients in fertilizer. You can buy them at your local feed store for about 1/6 the cost of regular organic fertilizer and about 1/10 the cost of compost.
There is no great organic solution to killing weeds. If you want to get this done fast, RoundUp is the best way to go. You have to be careful because it kills everything it touches. This means apply on a calm day to minimize over spray on other plants. Spraying vinegar has the same over spray effect. A foliar spray of vinegar kills top growth but leaves a lot of roots alive. RoundUp does not. Once you get the weeds killed, you should never need to use chemicals again.
I'm not real big on soil tests except where there are obvious issues. If you decide to get one, the $20 test at Logan Labs in Ohio is going to be much better than any test from a university. The only exception to that is the lab at UMASS where their test is about on par with Logan Labs.
I'm with Dchall on this one as well (lots of disagreement with Goren's post, I don't know if he/she carefully read your original post honestly). Weeds are growing there because THERE IS NOTHING TO COMPETE for the sunlight and nutrients! But now that there are a large number of weeds, organically "fighting" them would likely be a losing battle or a very long war.
Go organic AFTER, but kill the bad stuff with RoundUp first. Then seed TODAY (or hopefully you already did), with a fast sprouting seed. Rye is the quickest but will only last until late spring next year, so it's more of a temporary fix. Fescue is the best option in your zone and timeframe but it still is going to be risky due to the amount of time you have before a hard frost. KGB is completely out this year. Dchall's recommendation of sod is definitely the best option though. Very pricey compared to the other options, but if prep'd and watered properly will give instant great results.
Basically a month ago you would have a lot of options, but this time of year even a zone lower (where I am) would be flipping a coin as to whether you could get new seed to be hardy enough to deal with the winter. Compounding this is the theory that we are going to have a much harsher winter than the very mild last winter (some of my crabgrass didn't even die!).
My personal recommendation if sod is too expensive, is to use a mix of fescue and ryegrass, get a nice, pretty, dense lawn super fast, but realize come spring/fall you need to heavily overseed with a proper grass (depending on how well the fescue germinated as the rye dies in the summer). Not ideal (spring seeding is never ideal, and very difficult to manage organically), but you pretty much have few options this late in the year.
Hey all! Thanks so much for responses!!!
We live in northern Virginia (zone 6b). Unfortunately, we have not gotten around to seeding this area yet, as this is not the only thing we are trying to accomplish this fall in the garden. So I think our revised plan is to get this in shape in spring. Like enigma mentioned, I am figuring it is too late to seed for the year and expect them to survive the winter (Although we seeded some patchy spots in the lawn about two weeks ago and they just started germinating beautifully - I think Sandy gave the lawn a good soak).
So with the REVISED plan to get the lawn going in the spring:
1) Would you have a different plan/advise for me?
2) What can I do NOW to make things easier in the spring?
3) Should I seed vs. sod? Since area is not too big, we should be able to afford sod if that will make our life much easier..
4) When should I seed or sod next spring? I assume early spring like March?
I have a lot of dandelions there now, which we try to get the root whenever we see them. Some other things, we also try to get the roots out when we weed. But there are a lot of them, and our neighbor has a backyard full of weeds (some of them has become trees) - she does zero care for her yard, it's pretty much full of weed, yup) and lots of things blow in from there. Does round up stay in the soil? I would be fine tolerating weeding some from the lawn (rest of our lawn has some weed that we need to yank out but not too bad) but if it will prevent the lawn from establishing at all, I guess I would consider. But I would really like to prevent chemicals. We also put in raised vegetable garden near that area (doing lasagna now for next year) so I really do not want chemicals.. I am not expecting/wanting a perfectly manicured lawn, something to get us started and get going, that is not harmful for our family.
Area is not that big at all - we are probably talking less than 1,000 sqft so not too bad. It's easily workable manually by 1-2 people.
I do agree with dchall and enigma that the soil doesn't seem to be a problem. there wasn't much weeds there before we took the Juniper out. And Juniper was doing really well there. Juniper is not stemming anymore and most of them are underground with exception of few sticking out so I guess I will just leave the roots alone based on your advices.
Our soil seems to be normal - not too clay nor sandy, but I am new to this. But it is not much different from what I see in my other flowerbeds.
When is soil test needed? Do you think I need it for this purpose? Or it would be ok to try other methods you suggested first and get tested if I am not making progress?
I will definitely visit the organic gardening FAQ!
thanks all!!
If you don't care about having the perfect lawn, and grass seems to grow for you, then you probably don't need a soil test. If you have persistent problems, sometimes a good soil test (not from your state university or county extension agent) will help resolve the issue. One thing it can help with is the amount and quality of lime to add every so often. Most people guess at this and use the wrong type of lime. That can lead to the formation of clay-like soil when there is no real clay there.
If you can afford sod, don't even think of seeding - especially in the spring. There are two reasons why not to seed in spring: 1. you'll have a dead lawn in July. New seed sprouts do not have the time to develop and harden off before the summer heat cooks them; and 2. you'll have a lawn full of crabgrass by August. Both of those are direct results from spring seeding. Crabgrass seed sprouts in the spring, not the fall. That is primarily why spring seeding is doomed to failure.
RoundUp does not seem to persist in the soil. After 50 years of using it around the world, there are just now some studies showing some issues under certain conditions. I am about as organic as you can get, but if I had a real issue, I would use RoundUp. It will prep your yard fast and easy. Apply once and water as if you were sprouting new seed. The new seed will sprout and then hit the new seedlings with another dose of RoundUp a week later. Then put the sod down.
When you put the sod down, be sure to roll the sod down. Roots will not grow through the air to reach the ground. Then water briefly, 3x per day, just enough to moisten the bottom of the sod so the new roots will start knitting into the underlying soil. Once the new sod is knit in, start backing off on watering frequency and go up on the time. Ideally you will water once per month in the cool months (like spring) and once per week in the hottest heat of July. I have to water 8 hours to get an inch of water from my sprinklers. You'll have to test your system with cat food or tuna cans to see how long it takes your system. Water when the grass looks wilty, not when the soil feels dry.
Prevent weeds by infrequent watering and by mowing high. Infrequent watering (as described above) prevents weeds by not keeping the weed seeds moist enough to sprout. Mowing high prevents them by not giving them access to direct sunlight necessary for the seedlings to take root. Mowing high means not the lowest setting on the mower. I have two homes and treat them differently. The yard I mow is mowed every 2 weeks at the mower's highest setting. If you don't like grass at 5 inches high, then lower yours a notch. Don't go below 3 inches unless you have bermuda, bentgrass, zoysia, or centipede. My other yard has not been mowed at all since Sept 2011. Most spouses and communities will not let you do that, but it is working in my area. At least there are no weeds. That was part of this experiment. It is surrounded by bluestem, a prairie grass. It has invaded most of Texas but not my yard. The point of this is you are not allowed to blame your weeds on your neighbor's infestation. Even crabgrass will stop at the edge of your lawn if you mow high and water infrequently.


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My Show: How Do You Think You Spell That?Posted: July 19, 2013 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: Haigneys, Rants and riffs 2 Comments
I married into one of the easy names. Once in a blue moon, someone tries to spell it "Linch," the way my husband's ancestors did in 18th-century Virginia, but basically, it's easy. (To spell, not to research, which I realize is a whole other story.)
In contrast, my birth name is made for alternate spellings. I use what my great-great-grandfather settled upon in the 1870s. More likely, someone settled upon it for him, since the evidence is abundant that my immigrant ancestor was illiterate, signing his mark for important papers well into his old age. Starting in the 1872 West Troy directory, my branch spelled their surname "Haigney" and Haigneys they remained, thank God.
But research still must account for the alternate spellings random officials bestowed upon us. And with the spellings other Haigney families liked better.
Searching for possible extended family of my immigrant ancestor, I recently concluded an in-depth Troy city-directory search for the Haigney surname. I limited myself to reasonable variations, based on what I've encountered in 15+ years of research: Hagney, Heagney, Heaganey, Heagany, Hageny, Hagany, Haigney/Heigney/Haigeney/Heigeney and Hegney/Higney. Again, reasonable: For sanity's sake, I did not attempt to mind-meld with the sort of thinking that led a 1900 census enumerator to call my great-great-grandfather "Haggemy." (Although if I saw one of these in the directory, of course I'd look hard at it.)
Two funny things about this name: On the one hand, it's really very rare, however you spell it. For instance, when I searched for my great-great-grandfather in the Irish Family History Foundation's baptisms database, I found only 10 Martin Haigneys (this includes variants) for all of Ireland in 1793-1911. It's easy to get spoiled with searches like that.
On the other hand, the abundant spelling variations, and the freedom with which 19th-century Haigneys employed them, are a challenge to the confident pronouncement of my elders: "If they're a Haigney, we must be related."
Who is everyone, anyway? And what is our name? Sometimes after an intensive search, seeing all the variations play out, a surname starts looking like a funhouse mirror. How much of it belongs to me, and how much of it belongs to some 19th-century courthouse clerk's imagination of how those Gaelic noises were supposed to look?
When I was a child, it seemed that my father and his siblings were the only Haigneys in the whole world. Then the Internet showed us that there were others, not as abundant as Smiths, certainly, but we no longer existed in a vacuum.
And then the genealogical databases expanded to give panoramic views of how fluid spelling was of this surname, how it varied not just from family to family, but changed within individual lifetimes. It was also apparent that not all Haigney families were created equal. Some U.S. groups, like mine, were poor immigrants who found opportunities through army service and industrial jobs. Others gravitated quickly toward white-collar employment like clerking and teaching.
What do these educational and economic differences mean? How do they play out with Haigneys in other parts of the world – the ones who stayed in Ireland, the ones who migrated to England and Australia? Why did my immigrant ancestor grow up in County Tipperary, when many accounts state with confidence that the Haigney surname is welded to County Tyrone? Are those Hagneys and Heaganys in the Troy directories closely connected to my West Troy Haigneys?
What, in short, is really in a name? It's one of the background questions that keep my fascination with genealogy humming along.
Google Reader Public Service AnnouncementPosted: July 1, 2013 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: communities, Rants and riffs Leave a comment
A big confession: I am not very attached to Google Reader. I have trouble forming attachments like that. It's been a real problem emotionally for me and Google Reader over the years of our relationship.
Google Reader was all like, "Liz, you're never there for me."
And I was like, "I know, Google Reader, but I just have trust issues. I can't silence that little inner voice that's telling me maybe someday, YOU won't be there for ME."
And Google Reader was all, "How can you say that? I would NEVER!" So I'd have to be all, "Oh hon, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Let's just call for some takeout and open some wine, OK?"
So guess what! Google Reader is going away by the end of today.
Maybe I was right to have trust issues, hon.
So: If you DO read this blog using Google Reader, you will need to form another relationship, although I trust you have already done so. Some suggestions are here. Also, Thomas McEntee updated the Geneabloggers readership on what the change will mean, here.
On Reading FootnotesPosted: June 27, 2013 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: Rants and riffs, References Leave a comment
I am an avid consumer of footnotes. As a wee thing, I distinctly remember devouring my mother's paperback copy of Lady Antonia Fraser's Mary, Queen of Scots and tearing the pages in flipping them back and forth to savor the footnotes and endnotes.
(In my defense, those pages were awfully thin. My mom also got mad at me for getting orange juice stains on the pages due to reading at the breakfast table, but that's another story.)
But if I was tiresome about footnotes as a child, I am absolutely insufferable about them now. Genealogy has made me a footnote connoisseur — scratch that, an obsessive. An addict. It's almost not healthy, the way I can ditch a well-crafted historical narrative in favor of a juicily detailed footnote. (For instance, Mary Beth Norton's In The Devil's Snare has Gorgeous. Footnotes. It's a groundbreaking study of the Salem witch trials, too, but whatever.)
My interest in genealogy has set me a certain standard for footnoting, and that's generally a good thing. If you're stuck in front of an ancestral brick wall, throw a book at it, is what I say. A well-researched, well-cited history set in your ancestor's place of residence might well lead you to a key source you hadn't thought of.
However, one bummer about my footnote fetish is how quickly it can ruin a book for me. For instance, I just bought an ebook-format biography — a recent, well-reviewed book about a personality I'd always found intriguing, and I was pretty excited to read it. But I quickly found myself getting frustrated at the frequency with which the author got hazy on biographical details that I thought would be fairly easy to clarify with decent genealogical research. Or if they couldn't be clarified, I'd hope to see the attempt to do so.
My irritation bubbled over at a footnote that cited 1880 and 1900 census reports for a family group and went on to say: "Those for 1870 and 1890 either don't remain or were never taken [for the town in question]."
Two things:
A. If you're seriously researching a family and using census records, you should know there is no either/or about why there are no 1890 census returns. Even if you're not a genealogist.
B. Of course there were 1870 census returns for the town in question, and I found the family there in about three minutes on Ancestry. (You knew I was going to do that, right?)
Now, maybe Point A was simply a case of fuzzy phrasing, but this sort of thing really wrecks a book's street cred for me. I'm not citing the particular work or author because (1) I haven't finished the book yet and (2) I haven't the heart to single out one person in particular for something I see all the time.
But I do giggle a bit sometimes in contemplating the supposed gulf between historians and genealogists. Because the best ones on both sides of the aisle know the true value of what each side is doing, and use it to their advantage. And ours.
Another Aside: The Lost ZonesPosted: May 3, 2013 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: communities, NJ, NY, Rants and riffs Leave a comment
Being a person with heavily urban ancestry, I find this kind of story is always close to my heart. Here is an Albany Times-Union article (h/t Don Rittner via Facebook) about a documentary project that is using old photos to reconstruct the neighborhood that was razed in the 1960s to make way for the massive Empire State Plaza complex. Mary Paley's team is raising money on Kickstarter for the project. Paley has amazing raw material left by her father, Bob, a former photographer for the (Albany, N.Y.) Knickerbocker News who bore witness to the disappearance of more than 100 acres of a thriving neighborhood:
Derided by some as the city's "Garlic Core" for its concentration of Italian immigrants and compared by others to Manhattan's Lower East Side, the area bounded roughly by Lincoln Park and State, Eagle and Swan streets was a teeming melting pot of Jews, Germans, Irish, Armenians and French-Canadians.
I've thought a lot about what we used to call urban renewal and what a force it was when I was growing up. It put a big hole in the business district of Plainfield, N.J., next door to my hometown. And moving around for newspaper jobs, I heard stories about lost neighborhoods from Stamford, Conn., to Miami, to Chicago. (I also liked the term art critic Robert Hughes used for those massive mid-century plazas: "The International Power Style of the Fifties.") I actually consider "urban renewal" a bit inadequate as an umbrella term, because it doesn't cover all the development forces steamrolling the urban world as the 20th century wore on.
For example, the birth of the interstate highway was another knife across the cityscape. In Philip Roth's novel "The Human Stain," a character laments the evisceration of a beautiful East Orange, N.J. neighborhood, cut into quarters by the Garden State Parkway and Interstate 280. (See also: Miami's Overtown, the Cross-Bronx Expressway, et cetera.)
I want to be clear that I don't think dreaming big and planning big are bad things (see: Burnham, Olmstead, etc.) But dreaming and planning arrogantly … it left a lot of heartbreak behind, for those who still remember the lost zones.
Career Day ReportPosted: April 19, 2013 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: Rants and riffs 1 Comment
So today I was talking to elementary-school students about being a genealogist. Not being 100 percent sure where everyone's genealogy awareness level was, I started by handing out a simple three-generation chart and asking them to fill in the blanks — for them, their parents, and each set of grandparents.
I was proud of my awesome planning skills. What could be simpler than an itty-bitty family tree? What could be a better ice-breaker? But very quickly, brows furrowed and hands waved frantically.
"I can't fill in a lot of the blanks, does it still count?"
"What if you don't know who your dad's mom was?"
"What if you only ever call them Nana and Papa?"
"What if they're dead?"
Just like that, my little icebreaker turned into a surprisingly efficient way to explain a few home truths about genealogy:
• A family tree is the story of a family — both the living members and the ones who went before them. And people can land on the branches of the tree in lots of different ways.
• The only way to start is by writing down what you know, however much or little it is.
• We all have lots of blanks to fill in. That's why we do this.
Career Day ended up being a lot of fun. There were some things about my presentation that went really well, others that I'd definitely tweak depending upon the age group. I talked to children in grades three and five, and it was remarkable to see the difference that two years made in terms of attention span and ability to focus on a group discussion. After the family tree, I gave a brief talk about what genealogy is, jobs genealogists can do and ways you can study to be one. (This part got shortened considerably for the younger group.)
To wrap things up, I did a simple photo-analysis activity — I passed out some printouts of vintage photos and asked the kids to pick out one detail that they thought would help someone to figure out when the picture might have been taken. I made sure to pick photos with some nice background detail — classic cars, people in distinctive uniforms, things like that. This was very popular. A couple of the kids were fired up to try out their newfound investigative skills at home.
All in all, a nice experience. Talking about something you know very well to an audience who doesn't can really freshen up your perspective.
Handel, With CarePosted: March 31, 2013 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: Musical Memories, Rants and riffs 3 Comments
Continuing the blog's tradition of Easter musical moments, I offer a collection of Fun Handel Facts! Plus, some sheep!
First, the fun facts:
• On Messiah's opening night (Dublin: 13 April 1742), a nasty divorce was complicating life for contralto Susannah Cibber – quel scandal! But her singing of the aria "He was despised and rejected of men" so moved a clergyman among the listeners that he jumped from his seat, crying, "Woman, for this be all thy sins forgiven thee!"
• Speaking of jumping up: It is not documented beyond a doubt that George II of England surged to his feet during the first London performance of the "Hallelujah Chorus." But still, this is why tradition demands one stand for the "Hallelujah." (N.B.: There is no related royal tradition that supports checking phones for messages during a performance. Please stop that.)
• George Frideric Handel could be scary. Faced with a soprano who resisted his direction, he threatened to throw her out an open window, yelling: "I know well that you are a real she-devil, but I will have you know that I am Beelzebub!" (P.S. Those of us who have labored to tackle Handel's more florid melismatic runs will agree with this. P.P.S.: Why is it always sopranos in these stories?)
• Handel composed Messiah in an incredible 24 days. I mean, holy cow.
• One possible reason Messiah premiered in Dublin: Handel was playing things safe. He'd gotten some depressingly so-so notices in London the season before for other premieres.
• Back when Messiah was new, clergymen did not entirely approve of it. Biblical texts in a theater? As entertainment? Oh, well, you know how long those shock-value novelties last, amirite?
Many of these tidbits are from this wonderful history of Messiah by Jonathan Kandell in Smithsonian magazine. Or, for more Handel fun, you can take a very entertaining quiz.
Finally, for your listening pleasure, here is the chorus "All We Like Sheep." This is also known as "one of the choruses with all those ridiculous melismas" or "All we like sheep! Geddit?"
Please remember that were we to punctuate this text in contemporary fashion, it would read: "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." Commas: They matter.
Still, I think the sheep pictures add something. For those who celebrate, have a joyous Easter!
Irish VoicesPosted: March 15, 2013 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: Ireland, Musical Memories, Rants and riffs, St. Patrick's Day Leave a comment
I was telling a friend the other day about my dad, who was a wonderful singer, a real Irish tenor, and who was also kind of terrifying when it came to Irish music. And Irish accents. And Irish everything.
It was all about the authenticity. I wouldn't say my dad was a stickler for Aran-Islands style authenticity in these matters. But I suspect he knew what he knew — the accents of his Irish-born maternal grandparents, and the kind of Irish immigrant culture you used to find all over Red Hook once upon a time. And he was a merciless critic about Irish music that was not being done right.
Whatever that meant. I mean, we were all Americans, what did we know, really?
I was about to go away to college when I screwed up the courage to ask him for his version of "The Wild Colonial Boy." He considered for a bit and said he'd see. I expected him to sing it for me, if he were to agree. But at the end of the working day he presented me with a typewritten version of the verses, which is the version I use to this day. (For more thoughts on the "Wild Colonial Boy," see link below).
Every so often, through the magic of YouTube, I encounter some Irish music I believe even my dad would have loved. This year's St. Patrick's Day offering is a crystalline version of a song called "Love is Teasing," sung in 1967 by a radiant Dolly McMahon.
Past posts on St. Patrick's Day matters:
The Soda Bread Post (No Raisins!)
How to sing The Wild Colonial Boy (or how not to)
Maura O'Connell: a seasonal appreciation


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has been accepted for publication in "Management Science" journal.
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Management (GSEM), the Faculties of Law, Psychology and Science of Education. GFRI collaborates in particular with the Center for Banking and Financial Law and the National Center for Research in Affective Sciences, both located at the University of Geneva.
GFRI also engages in knowledge transfer activities such as conferences, seminars and public debates on finance topics related to Portfolio Management and Corporate Governance.
GFRI is delighted to announce its Finance Seminar Series supported by Geneva Financial Center:
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Prunotto Barbaresco 2004
Nebbiolo from Piedmont, Italy
Winemaker's Notes
This Barbaresco is deep garnet in color, with deep and complex aromas giving off hints of licorice. On the palate, the wine is full and velvety with a long finish. Ideally suited with various meats and cheeses.
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Corporation is yet to find land in newly-included areas to develop playgrounds
After every shot, thirteen-year-old Saikamalesh looks around anxiously to see if a policeman is watching him. Following complaints from residents in his Palavakkam neighbourhood, the police have started to crack down on teams that play cricket on the roads. The absence of Corporation-maintained playgrounds in the extended limits of the civic body has forced children like him to play on roads.
"When a police patrol appears suddenly, some of us start running away but we lose our bat and ball most of the time," said Saikamalesh, adding: "Older team members are also scared to request the police to return the bat. The policemen might beat them if they ask."
A police official said that they were taking action against the youngsters on account of the disruption caused to traffic. "They play on the main roads connecting residential localities. So we have to take action and prevent them from bothering residents," a policeman said.
Hundreds of boys like Saikamalesh in various parts of the expanded Corporation limits are forced to either walk or cycle long distances to areas like Pallikaranai where there are large tracts of forest land. "We cycle a distance of over 7 km to play cricket in vacant lands in Pallikaranai," said E. Vinoth, another student in the team.
Councillors' help sought
Some choose to take a risk and play on the roads. K. Karthik said, "We have asked our councillor to help us find a playground to play without any fear. We want a nice playground to play cricket or volleyball during the holidays."
Some of the 200 Chennai Corporation councillors have assured the youth in their locality that they will create better playgrounds for them. But most of the assurances are not likely to materialise, as much depends on how successful the Corporation is in getting land currently owned by other government agencies. However, children in such localities are hoping to have a playground in future.
One assurance by a Chennai Corporation councillor includes the creation of temporary cricket pitches on a large piece of land belonging to the University of Madras in Palavakkam, as the Chennai Corporation does not own land that is large enough to accommodate a large number of youth during summer. The civic body maintains only three playgrounds in the extended areas, while in the old city limits, it had 246 playgrounds. This, when total area of the newly added localities (252 square km) is far more than that of the city's limits prior to expansion (174 square km).
Enlisting open spaces
While officials of the civic agency have begun the process of making a list of open spaces suitable for creating playgrounds in the newly added zones of Tiruvottiyur, Manali, Madhavaram, Ambattur, Valasaravakkam, Alandur, Perungudi and Sholinganallur, many of the identified places are rather small plots of lands that can, at best, be used for commissioning play equipment for tiny tots. The Chennai Corporation is yet to put in place a sound procedure to help it verify documents and retrieve its own land that have, for long, been with local bodies.
Also, these localities simply do not have large-enough plots of land. Newly appointed officials of the divisions in the added areas are unable to find out the reason for the lack of open spaces in the newly added areas. While wide-spread development on plots is clearly visible in areas, the fact that corresponding OSR lands, which ought to have been earmarked by the local bodies, should be missing remains a puzzle.
The Directorate of Town and Country Planning and the CMDA are likely to possess records that might help the Corporation find hints to the missing OSR lands in the extended areas. The records available with the DTCP and CMDA on the approved layouts in the past three decades in added areas could be used to find out how much land in these areas really belongs to the Chennai Corporation. These plots of land are likely to be large enough to create playgrounds for the hundreds of children in every newly carved out division, senior officials in the Corporation observed.
While the civic body announced that it will create parks in 100 localities in the newly-added areas, hardly a few identified open spaces for the purpose are suitable for the creation of large playgrounds.
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Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit
Hi all, i tend to level alts through farming and doff missions so right now i have a blank level 45 science alt ready for points.. Now my issue, i have never made a science officer and am blind to quality builds.. After searching i know sci is a tricky build to do, other then that i am having alot of trouble coming up with quality info. Anyone who can link my a sound science build, it would be greatly appreciated!
What i am looking for.. I tend to pve and pvp both, looking for something tricky that can do a bit of damage and heals both. I guess something even and all around sound.
I greatly enjoy a small variation on this: Cygone's Intrepid
Hmm, thanks but thats actualy a tact captian build for a Long Range Sci ship.. I cant use it.
How is that a Tac Captain build?
How is any build Captain Specific?
OK a Beam Overload build will work far better with an Eng than a Tac or Sci. But since that build doesn't use Beams not relevant.
I use that build on my Sci it's fantastic.
Well, in the class on the build page it says tactical captian.. Plus theres a few points in there that just dont do anything for sci, like attack patterns. You might read through the thread itself, theres a few points in there.
This puts a Tac as the top choice to maximize that damage, followed by Sci who can at least use Sensor Scan before hand and followed last by an Engineer that at best can mitigate the Weapon Energy drop.
You pay the same -50 to weapons regardless of how much damage you do.
So you might as well do as much as possible.
I'm currently building an intrepid power siphon build myself. Running 2 polaron beam arrays up front, 2 polaron turrets aft, 1 chroniton front, 1 photon aft.
This is going along side the Power Siphon ability and Tyken's Rift 3. I may be going for the breen set as well to get another power siphon from the set bonus, not sure yet as the shield has low hp compared to say, aegis.
As a science officer, you'll actually pull off more damage than I can can due to your sensor scan buffing your torpedoes, though you won't deal as much as a tac officer. Just don't both putting any points into attack patterns to use elsewhere; you might wind up being more tanky so you're in the fight longer. Point being, the build is a great starting point to branch off of depending on playing style and captain profession.
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The Manage at this location is a straight up guy, it's just to bad the guy he had answering the phone at 12:40 pm on 3/25/15 is incompetent!. He was rude and eventually hung up on me and didn't even have the gall to pick up after I called back, (he let it go to the main operators). We do a lot of business through U-Haul and I think this guy has forgotten that if it weren't for the PUBLIC he would not have a paycheck! Or maybe he doesn't need one? Maybe he should look somewhere else instead of trying to deal with the public! He is seriously lacking! It's a shame because the manager at this location and some of the other guys we have met have always been good! This guy, I know the voice, works in the back part. Older guy, has a tattoo in rememberance of his daughter. Guess he didn't think I would remember his voice.
Friendly and efficient.
Make sure trucks are cleaned before next person gets them. Have equipment there on its reserve date and not the day after and charge an extra day for their mess up.
the equipment itself was not really clean but due to weather conditions probably normal
The on-line reservation process was ineffective and inaccurate. I made my reservation online with the UHaul reservation system three days before I was going to pick my trailer. Within 24hrs from the time of my pick-up, I was notified by the Fargo, ND Uhaul office "Anna" that the nearest trailer was 120 miles away from the Minot, ND (where I registered online to pick it up from). In other words my travel plans instantly collapsed. Anna attempted to help me with an alternative option(s), but my truck cannot pull the larger trailers that she had suggested. I asked to speak with the Fargo, ND, Uhaul manager (Kathy). She was not able to return my call until the next day because she had other work-related commitments throughout the day that I had called. So, I was left somewhat stranded trying to figure out a solution. I called the Uhaul 24hour number (later that night-the night before I'm scheduled to drive 1700 miles with the trailer) to see if there were an alternate options. The Uhaul representative said that she could not access my account and that the "computer was down" and she could not help me. Instead she gave me the number for the Uhaul customer service, "Emanual." He was able to logically go through options and help me come up with a feasible solution. Emanual gets a 10 out of 10 in customer service (highest rating available). The Fargo, ND Uhaul office gets a 0 out of 10 in customer service (the lowest possible score). The Minot, ND Uhaul gets an 8 out of 10 in customer service.
They need some gravel dumped on the lot because it is a muddy mess with the thaw. Everyone at the location was very professional and courteous! Thanks.
young lady at counter seemed too busy to be bothered, summoned young man to help unhook trailer and he never spoke to me, even when I was clearing addressing him....rude
Check in was quick and not complicated.
Great customer service and management. Very helpful and timely with everything I needed. Hours are great and help is always there when you need it.
The staff were friendly, helpful, and polite. The storage unit and inside walking area were clean. The $10 for 24 hours access for the month, was worth it.
Excellent service and very fast return.
I had to wait 30 min after the truck was issued to me for the attendant to clean the ice off of the windshield. At one point I had to show him how to use an ice scraper. When I did take the truck he had given up on the window, I could only see out a 1 sq/ft spot in the windshield. He didn't provide the ice scraper, and the cab was filthy.
Uhaul personnel did a good job making this work. My mistake was overestimating what how much would fit in a box.
Better maintenance program should be highly considered. Hole in roof of trailer rental and water became present inside, ruining several belongings. Poor maintenance/quality.
No directional signs for where to drop off, just one sign on one building... put up some signs so a person doesn't have to drive up and down all the aisles of buildings to find where to drop off.
I like that there secure n heated
I didn`t like the the rates have changed on us so many times. It got to expensive. Not to mention the first change in price happened a week after we rented.
No improvements imaginable! Nicest storage facility I've ever seen (I've seen many) with great security and accommodations (i.e.: Sliding, motion-activated glass doors; hauling carts specifically for for mattresses and pictures as well as flat carts for boxes etc.). Also, the moving pick-up was almost new and customer service followed through with "price-match" (or "beat") as advertisement near the street. Excessively satisfied! -Doug Noyes
The only thing that really concerned me was the break in, that made it feel not so safe to me that whoever it was broke into multiple units. But clean and good payment system
Truck had mud inside cab and windows weren't very clean.
I rented from Uhaul for the first time in the summer of 2014. I can't believe I have not utilized their services prior to this, Uhaul provides an extremely economical service. if you only need to haul stuff occasionally it is more cost efficient to rent from Uhaul than it is to own your own hauling assests.
All of the sites, I have dealt with have been knowledgeable and helpful.
Customer service was outstanding!
Would have been nice to know that rate increase would be going into effect when I accepted storage units.
The trailer I rented was not mechanically sound. The door came open while on the road and we lost some of our personal belongings as well as clothes. I will be filing a claim with Safe Tow.
Was very disappoint that my unit was rented out before I even had a chance to turned it in..
Keep website current and updated. The website stated there was a certain trailer at a specific location. After arriving to that location, I was informed that there wasn't the requested trailer available. Due to time, I had to rent a trailer that was not ideal for my move.
I also called the uhaul hotline to locate a specific trailer, and I was informed that they could not assist me, unless I wanted to list off zip codes around my location.
The guys in the office were rude and very unhelpful. Other than that everything else was good. Clean units and very lighted and secured. Just wish the staff was friendly!!
I sat in the office for twenty minutes, another lady had been there twenty before me, before we were helped. When i called the number for the storenit went to general customer service an they couldnt get a hold of anyone either. Then they informed me of a forty dollar 'deposit' tht wout be needed above and beyond the total. This wasnt mentioned anywhere when i reserved a van. Then they told me to fill it to where it was when i returned it in fuel. Understandable. I drove approximately 11 miles in the van and they said i needed to put 4.9 gallons in it to get it back. I didnt leave it running ir anything so if thats yhe case it has worse gas mileagr than a semi pulling a couple tons in a snow and wind storm. The man i returned it to was rude and told me the refund if the 'deposit' would be by the next day. Nope. It was all very upsetting. And they had me by the short hairs because i had to move asap. Never again will i use this Uhaul
Excellent service from the staff.
Clean facility, very convenient.
Definitely would use them again.
Trailer was not available on the reservation date.
Worse experience of my life. The absolutely worse customer service I've ever dealt with. I would not recommended them or ever use them again. You will be better off using a different company.
extra effort was made to satisfy us as customers when computer check-in / billing was causing issues.
We used the website to rent a u-haul for 24 hours. When we arrived to pick it up, we were told they had double booked the truck and that it would be needed to be returned in four hours. The employees were unwilling to pro-rate the fee, offer a discount or any other perk. We paid full price for the truck even though we were only able to use it for four out of the 24 hours. Very frustrating experience.
At least for cross country/one-way moves you should at least offer diesel trucks. They tow better, have better gas mileage than the 7.7 of gasoline engines, they do better up hills and can take a lot more miles on the engine.
You should promote Mr Michael Hoffman. He has demonstrated excellent customer relation to me. I was very satisfied with the manner in which he handled you situation. As long as Michael is there I will keep coming to Uhaul. Job well done. Thank you.
The gentleman that helped me was very friendly. There was another man there, and he was very indifferent to everyone. His attitude was very unwelcoming.
My initial reservation was for a 26 ft truck, however upon pickup it wasn't ready and I was told no one knew when it would be ready. Instead I was offered a 20 ft truck. Of course I have NO choice because I've scheduled all appropriate actions to begin moving on this day of equipment pickup. What was to be a 2-3 day move took 4 days because of the smaller truck. My move was unnecessarily costly and timely due to the LACK of customer service on behalf of UHAUL. I NEVER received any contact from UHAUL to let me know my requested equipment would NOT be ready! I believe that to be POOR customer service. This inconvenience could've possibly been avoided had UHAUL contacted me PRIOR to my pickup! Please understand that I will NO longer use your services nor will I reccomend them.
I was not very happy with this last U-Haul experience. I called at least 2 weeks in advance to reserve a 17 foot truck for 7AM for 24 hours. I received a confirmation and then on the day before, I got a text that my truck was available at 10AM for a different location in the city?? When I called to inquire about this at the lcoation where I rented it, they told me the 17foot truck had been delivered to a different state and that they didn't have a 17 foot truck for me until 10AM. I had people coming to help me move at 7AM and couldn't change this as they had other commitments at 11:00 AM. They did give me a 14 foot truck at 7AM, but this was a very stressful situation.
The back of the trailer was dirty, not swept out so our mattresses got dirty. Also, the light didn't work and we were loading at night, which made it difficult.
Staff were helpful, and friendly.
Wonderful customer service experience !
Set back from frontage. Could use better signage. Great service.
24 hour access was not explained to me and when I arrived after hours with a U-Haul truck to unload my furniture. I was unable to until the next day during business hours.
I was very happy with my service
The guys that was there on my of arrival so nice they took time to answer all my questions and explain things to me overall my experience was great.
My u-haul storage experience was very good.
I like the junk pile for customer`s Somebody through away just the item I needed that I couldn`t find anywhere else.
I should not have to pay extra to access my stuff after business hours.
Very good customer service !
Service was great but the parking lot is not paved and was very muddy...horrible
Had a storage unit for about a year, never a problem processing a payment, no damage to my property, no negative experience whatsoever.
I lost a red dolly there. Did anyone happen to find one last September. My daughter was supposed to ask and she never did.
THANKS Mary Frost
I shouldn`t have to pay an extra charge for 24 hour access to my storage unit...
the only thing is the bill. it does not allow you to pay it early. the only way is to set up auto pay. I don`t think that right
The service and facility are excellent. I can`t believe how clean the storage units are. My wife and I are VERY impressed.
Site looks much improved over past year.
Excellent facility.
Excellent. Quick and easy.
Staff very helpful and friendly. No waiting in line for service. Quick service.
My only concern is that I could never reach the office by phone. Once I actually showed up in-person, everything went well.
Very professional
Very good staff and very helpful
Great storage place!
The staff was very helpful and professional. They had our best interest first. We would definitely use them again. Thank you.
Jim Heilman
Fast helpful nice knowledgable
Girl relied on coworker to help on computer causing delay. Took 30 mins. She didn`t know how to work the register, didn`t give me my contract, didn`t know how to print
good service, no problems
Very friendly people
I was VERY pleased with your service and I couldn`t believe how quickly you got it from MN to ND !!! I would highly recommend your company for this type of move. Thanks so much! Sandra
I used 7 days this month and you charge me full price. There better not be anyone renting it this month than double dipping crooks.
This uhaul storage was literally so easy and had helpful staff, I`m still in shock I moved into a unit so quickly. It`s super clean and I feel good knowing how safe all my belongings are!
The staff and the facilities was excellent. I would recommend this location to anyone. Great job.
Jim Heilman
The storage units are indoors in a well lit heated building, a nice choice in the bitter cold of North Dakota.
The staff was unprofessional every time I attempted to reach them. They did not give me proper access to my unit and told me Oh well when I called to get it fixed.
The service was excellant, facility was immaculate. Thank you
I bought a 24hr access card which didn`t work so the alarms were set off. After all my troubles and a night of moving stuff they left the original lock on it so I couldn`t even get into my locke
They did not call us within 24 hours after we got the e-mail saying our U-Box was here.Call center never gave them my messages,I called two days in a row! We finally got through and got our U-Box.
Thank you uhaul staff
They went out of their way to accommodate me in a very difficult time for me. I appreciate all their efforts.
Outstanding assistance in Minot ND with Lyle
One complaint. The card check-in closest to my unit was broken for more than 2 months and still is. Mgmt is aware that it is broken.
The facility is in great shape and the staff were friendly and helpful. Great experience.
Great service!
The service was fantastic. I would absolutely recommend this facility to anyone in the Minot area looking for storage.
Very friendly with Grace. She is very helpful. Clean and courteous
I had a great experience and thank you very much for the opportunity to move my stuff in.
When I was doing the paperwork, the guy kept telling me all the different things they required. The cost ended up going from $54.00 to almost $80.00. After all of that, my security card didn`t work.
Stuff came away with a smell.
No covers for U-Boxes at time of pick up so had to load furniture to trailer unload at U-Haul. Double work, behind schedule. Ridiculous at best. Should have been a discount for delay.
Thank you was very clean and respectable place very well upkeep and i feel good about choosing Uhaul.
staff forgot to send it until after I called in 9 days later to inquire about it and it was still at the facility.
The WORST service, BY FAR! Arrived 3 1/2 weeks late, they even broke into the boxes before finally delivering them. Complaint never gets to anyone that can resolve it. I`d NEVER recommend to anyone!
very awesome and delightful to have good customer service
The boxes didn`t close, they didn`t come with the guaranteed moving pads.The tow dolly I reserved a month ago was only available and hour and a half away, with less than 24hr notice.
Don`t like walking through mud between the customer service desk and the the storage rooms.
great people, will come back many more times
Very friendly group of men
Quick service and helpful staff. Nice facility, my stuff is well secured.
Excellent customer service, very clean and well lit storage space, very friendly employees, would recommend to others!
Bret and Lyle were great to work with. We are excited to have such a fantastic storage facility in Minot!
The staff both in Minot and in West Seattle were very helpfull. The manager in Minot went above and beyond to make it as easy for me as possible.
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Mr Bret Hanson does a very good job in handling customers.
Staff was very helpful and able to schedule me with short notice.
The gentlemen that helped us was very helpful and friendly and knowledgeable in every thing we needed
Registration is cumbersome.
Also, I wanted to keep the Uboxes at my location on-site. They don`t have a way to unload the Ubox from the trailer in a city the size of Minot? One would help
great service, friendly and knowledgeable staff
I would recommend this service especially if you want to move a long distance and you don`t feel like driving. Got quotes from other competitors,,U-haul was cheapest.
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Hoping someone can help with my idea of transforming a old chest of drawers into a desk....also have a vanity that could be used if needed..want a hutch type if possible..sorry can't post any pics
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Here is a link that might be useful: dresser to home office
This is my first posting in this forum, but I hope I can be of use...I've been thinking about a similar project. I saw a dresser-desk project a few years ago in one of the BHG magazines. They removed the bottom two drawers, then sawed out the sliders and kick plate of a three drawer chest, leaving the top drawer as storage in the desk. after sanding their cuts, they lined the sides and back of the new knee hole with thin plwood (luan) and painted it all. They used the drawers they had removed as under-bed storage in the same room. They put wheels on the drawers and used the same colors and hardware to keep it similarly styled.
For the hutch part you want, can you find a small bookshelf about the same width as the dresser-desk to place on top? Then you could use similar trim around the top edge to tie the two pieces together.
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Peter d'Agostino, Professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, will present a preview his new video installation, World-Wide-Walks / between earth, sky & water/DESERTS at the Balance-Unbalance 2015 International Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 22 – 29. The theme of the conference is Water, Climate, Place: Re-Imagining Environments and it is aimed to provoke discussion and reflection on how the climate is changing and what our future might hold. At the conference, Professor d'Agostino and David Tafler will also present a paper entitled "Deserts: Crossroads of Natural-Cultural-Virtual Environments during Climatic Changes" on March 28, at 10:30 am.
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World-Wide-Walks have been performed on six continents over the past four decades. Initiated in 1973 as The Walk Series, the video "documentation / performances" evolved into video-web projects during the 1990s, and mobile-locative media installations in the 2000s. World-Wide-Walks explore elements of natural, cultural and virtual identities: mixed realities of walking through physical environments and virtually surfing the web. Current projects focus on climate change and the effects of global warming to address concerns for a sustainable future related to 'glocal' – global / local – ecologies. A catalogue, Peter d'Agostino: World-Wide-Walks, 1973-2012, is available at Printed Matter, NY and as an ebook – download here.


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Anyone growing this plant in a mediterranean type climate outside South Africa? It seems easy enough to get started from seed and does well in the nursery as a young plant, but once planted out with our winter rains it seems to suffer considerable die back. As I remember seeing this is the Cape fynbos, it appeared to prefer sandy/gritty soils and full sun. Does it also suffer as a young landscape plant in South Africa in more fertile garden soils with heavy winter rains?
I realize I had misspelled the Genus, it should be Syncarpha vestita... I guess this isn't a popular plant there in South Africa, or is it that the Cape Region gardeners are poorly represented on this forum? This species is so showy in the Cape, and looked to be so carefree in habitat, but this doesn't always translate into a good garden plant in another mediterranean climate such as coastal California. We have had so much rain and cool weather this winter that many South African plants that prefer it dryer and warmer have been having problems with rotting out. Fortunately the longer days and warmer temperatures of early spring are coming to the rescue. The Ursinia anthemoides` Phylica plumosa, Grielum humifusum and various Heliophila and Nemesia strumosa varieties are all in full bloom here already, and not minding the rain and cool weather at all! Several Leucadendrons and Leucospermums are also blooming already, as is Psoralea pinnata, and the Pychnostachys urticifolia is just finsihing up blooming here in the San Francisco Bay Area.


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