Horridculture – Half-Breed

Originally posted on Tony Tomeo:
Cher explained a long time ago that a half-breed is nothing to brag about. Some of us just don’t get it. A few clients still introduce me to their weirdly bred stone fruit trees as if they are both justification for great pride, as well as something that a professional horticulturist of the Santa Clara Valley has not already encountered… Continue reading Horridculture – Half-Breed

Christmas Trees – Dead Or Alive

Originally posted on Tony Tomeo:
Christmas trees are like vegetables. Really, they are like big vegetables that do not get eaten. They are grown on farms, and then harvested and sent off to consumers. Although they smell like a forest, and they are descendents of trees that naturally grow in the wild somewhere, there is nothing natural about their cultivation. In fact, most are grown… Continue reading Christmas Trees – Dead Or Alive

Fennoscandian wader factory

Originally posted on wadertales:
? Nesting Temminck’s Stint – the smallest of the 22 wader species for which trends are reported At the end of the summer, vast numbers of waders leave Norway, Sweden and Finland, heading southwest, south and south-east for the winter. In a 2019 paper by Lindström et al, we learn what is happening to these populations of Fennoscandian breeding species, as… Continue reading Fennoscandian wader factory