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World-renowned gardener Adrian Bloom to speak on Thursday, July 13

July 12, 2017   •   Leave a Comment

blooms-best-0717Widely-acclaimed British gardener Adrian Bloom will speak on “Designing Drama in the Year-Round Garden: Making the Most of Trees, Shrubs, Conifers, Perennials, Grasses, Ferns and Bulbs.” Adrian is the former president of the legendary Blooms of Bressingham nursery in England, which was founded in 1926 and has introduced over 200 perennial cultivars since then. He is the developer of Britain’s superb Foggy Bottom garden, television personality, author and world traveler in the service of horticulture. In addition to his illustrated presentation, he will autograph your copy(ies) of his books and pose for photos.

Thursday, July 13, 2017: 6:30-8:30 pm. At the Dearborn Inn, Alexandria Ballroom, 20301 Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, MI 48124. Walk-in registrations are welcome ($45) and include admission, book signing, and lecture.

Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: Adrian Bloom, dearborn, garden speaker

New study sheds light on how pesticides impact bees

July 5, 2017   •   Leave a Comment

NPR:

In the global debate over neonicotinoid pesticides, the company that makes most of them has relied on one primary argument to defend its product: The evidence that these chemicals, commonly called “neonics,” are harmful to bees has been gathered in artificial conditions, force-feeding bees in the laboratory, rather than in the real world of farm fields. That company, Bayer, states on its website that “no adverse effects to bee colonies were ever observed in field studies at field-realistic exposure conditions.”

Bayer will have a harder time making that argument after today. (Although it still has another argument in its quiver. We’ll get to that later.)

This week, the prestigious journal Science reveals results from the biggest field study ever conducted of bees and neonics, which are usually coated on seeds, like corn and soybean seeds, before planting. Scientists monitored honeybees and two types of wild bees at 33 sites across Europe, in the United Kingdom, Germany and Hungary. At each site, the bees were placed near large fields of canola. Some of the fields contained canola grown from seeds that were treated with neonicotinoid pesticides, along with a standard fungicide. Other fields were planted with canola treated only with fungicides.

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: bayer, bees, neonics, pesticides, science

China plans to build a $100 million garden in Washington D.C.

May 31, 2017   •   Leave a Comment

Washington Post:

This summer, a construction team is expected to begin transforming a 12-acre field at the U.S. National Arboretum into one of the most ambitious Chinese gardens ever built in the West.

By the time Chinese artisans finish their work some 30 months later, visitors will encounter a garden containing all the elements of a classical Chinese landscape: enticing moongate entrances, swooping and soaring roof lines, grand pavilions with carved wooden screens and groves of golden bamboo. The grounds will boast two dozen handcrafted pavilions, temples and other ornate structures around a large central lake.

Its backers undoubtedly hope that the National China Garden will become a Washington landmark and achieve for Sino-U.S. relations what the gift of the Tidal Basin’s cherry trees has done for Japanese-American links for more than a century. The Chinese government is so anxious to have the garden that it has agreed to foot the entire bill, which approaches $100 million.

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: china, garden, National China Garden, Washington D.C.

Scientists say there are over 60,000 tree species in the world

May 3, 2017   •   Leave a Comment

NPR:

Wondering how many kinds of trees there are? There’s now a database that can answer that.

Scientists from the U.K.-based Botanic Gardens Conservation International say they have compiled the first-ever comprehensive list of all known tree species, totaling 60,065 different kinds.

The database includes information about where each species is found geographically. More than half of those species are only found in one country, the researchers wrote in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry. And many of them are threatened with extinction.

Read the full story here…

Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: scientists, species, trees, world

Detroit school horticulture program receives national award

April 18, 2017   •   2 Comments

The Charles Drew Transition Center has become a national model for methodology and programs developed to educate special education students in the areas of Horticulture Science.
The Charles Drew Transition Center has become a national model for methodology and programs developed to educate special education students in the areas of Horticulture Science.

The Charles R. Drew Horticulture Program has been named the recipient of a 2017 Magna Award, sponsored by the National School Board Association. This award recognizes the Drew Horticulture Program as one of five innovative programs nationwide recognized for outstanding content, student involvement, and impact on school culture and local community.

For more than 20 years, the Magna Awards has been a national recognition program that honors innovative programs that advance student learning. Drew’s Horticulture Program was chosen for this highly prestigious award from among more than 2,650 applicants submitted from across the country.

Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: Charles R. Drew, Detroit Public Schools, horticulture, school, special needs

Detroit’s Bandhu Gardens sells harvest and shares Bangladeshi food culture

March 18, 2017   •   Leave a Comment

Bandhu Gardens recently cooked bitter melon (pictured) in a recent cooking class. (Photo: https://www.instagram.com/bandhu_gardens/)
Bandhu Gardens recently cooked bitter melon (pictured) in a recent cooking class. (Photo courtesy: @bandhu_gardens)

NPR:

One hundred seeds: That’s the number Minara Begum needs to plant in her Detroit backyard in order to grow enough vegetables such as squash, taro root and amaranth greens to feed her family for the year.

She learned to cook and garden at a young age in Bangladesh. In the two years since she moved to the U.S., she’s grown traditional South Asian crops to feed her family — and whoever visits — on any given day. There’s always a pot, or several, on the stove.

For Begum, this is a way of life. But through Bandhu Gardens, in Detroit, Begum and her neighbors are able to leverage their culinary skills into an entrepreneurial venture.

Bandhu Gardens sells surplus vegetables that are grown in the backyards of about six families to a handful of popular area restaurants. Last year they sold 120 pounds of greens, beans and peppers and 25 pounds of squash to restaurant accounts.

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: Bangladesh, Bangladeshi, Bhandu Gardens, detroit, Eastern Market, Food, vegetables

Michigan prepares quarantine due to invasive hemlock tree pest

March 3, 2017   •   Leave a Comment

A recent outbreak of the pest within the state has prompted new legislation which will restrict the movement of hemlock products within Michigan in an effort to control this invasive pest.
Over the last several years, in reaction to the outbreak of hemlock wooly adelgid in forest stands across the eastern U.S., Michigan banned the shipment of hemlock trees and wood with bark into the state. However, a recent outbreak of the pest within the state has prompted new legislation which will restrict movement within Michigan in an effort to control this invasive pest.

The exotic hemlock wooly adelgid insect was first identified in the eastern U.S. in early 1950s. It has systematically spread throughout the Appalachian region and is devastating the forest by the thousands. In an effort to help protect the estimated 170 million trees in Michigan, a ban or quarantine on bringing hemlock nursery stock and wood products with attached bark into the state has been in place for some time and was last revised in 2014.

Read more at the MSU Extension…

Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: hemlock, hemlock wooly adelgid, Michigan, pest

Plant amaryllis bulbs now for winter color after the holidays

December 20, 2016   •   Leave a Comment

Plan and plant ahead to give your home some winter cheer after the holidays—plant an amaryllis bulb. The bulb contains everything it needs to produce large, showy flowers that will brighten your winter days. All you need to do is plant the bulb using seven easy steps, water sparingly, then sit back and watch the growth. Click here to see the seven steps in a simple, one-minute video.

Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: amaryllis, grow, simple

Japanese knotweed spreads throughout Michigan

October 6, 2016   •   Leave a Comment

Detroit Free Press:

A pretty, invasive plant that flowers in late summer and early fall is spreading throughout Michigan. And it’s so prolific and tough, it can grow through sidewalks, driveways and building foundations.

Japanese knotweed, native to East Asia, has become such a pervasive invader in Great Britain that those with it on their property can have trouble getting a mortgage or home insurance. It’s not to that point in Michigan — and concerned ecologists want to keep it that way.
The law prohibits bringing the plant into the state or moving it around within Michigan.

The shrub-like plant features a hollow, bamboo-like stem and broad leaves in a zigzag pattern up the shoot. It grows up to 10 feet in height. In Michigan, the plant blooms small, creamy white flowers in August and September. Its root network and rhizomes — a stem that grows horizontally under the ground — can grow up to 65 feet away from the weed, shooting up additional plants along its path.

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: invasive, Japanese knotweed, Michigan, spreading

Vacant Detroit buildings breed indoor farms

August 16, 2016   •   Leave a Comment

The Detroit News:

Entrepreneurs are taking advantage of inexpensive former warehouses and factories in Detroit and transforming them for agricultural use to produce local foods.

There’s a growing movement of using vacant buildings and spaces to produce lettuce, basil and kale, and even experiment with fish farming — year-round.

And the city is considering regulations that could expand indoor agriculture even more.

“Fifteen, 20 years from now, we want people to say, ‘Of course they grow kale in that building,’ ” said Ron Reynolds, co-founder of Green Collar Foods Ltd. It built its first indoor-farming research hub in Eastern Market’s Shed 5 in 2015.

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: agriculture, buildings, detroit, indoor farms, vacant

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