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The Meadowlands Museum is looking for volunteers to work on the outside garden 10 a.m. to noon Wednesdays.
The museum is at 91 Crane Ave., Rutherford.
Information: 201-896-8278, 201-935-1175 or email, pokyeidavis@verizon.net
Happy Independence Day!
My "From The Ground Up" column this week (Thursday, July 3) is a [flower] POT-pourri.
It has items about the Moore sculpture exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden; the Morris County master gardeners classes; a new guide book by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; a house tour out of New Milford; and a Briggs & Stratton contest.
If you can't get to an actually newspaper, here is the Web link: http://www.northjersey.com/betterliving/Edel_New_York_Botanical_Garden_offers_Moore.html
I am scheduled to walk in Ridgefield Park's 2008 Fourth of July parade.
If all goes well -- and the weather holds off, my daughter Paulina and I will be marching with a group of people from the weekly RP newspaper, "The Ridgefield Park Patriot." I'll be the guy with some-sort-of Record shirt. Please say hello.
The parade kicks off at 11:30 a.m.
Information: http://www.ridgefieldpark.org/fourthjuly.html
St. Leonard, New Brunswick -- Some 12 million honey bees were released along Canada's largest highway on Monday when a truck transporting them overturned, police said.
Richard Duplain, vice president of the New Brunswick Beekeepers Association, said it's unlikely the bees would survive long unless they're captured quickly because they require care of experienced beekeepers. Rain was keeping them near the truck.
-- ASSOCIATED PRESS
As gardeners ... we should all be aware of the danger of ticks. But every so often, we need to be reminded.
Patrick Tuohey did just that in Sunday's (June 29) Record.
The article (titled "Nasty ticks out in full force"), found on page one of the local section, alerts us that this season looks like a banner season for the nasty little bloodsuckers. In the piece, Tuohey quotes Bergen County health promotions program director Marge Doremus and Peter Nitzche, Morris County's Rutgers Cooperative Extension agricultural agent.
Accompanying the article is a great chart by staff artist Billy Becerra.
If you can't get to a hard copy of the paper, here is the online link: http://www.northjersey.com/news/health/22577089.html
Me and my family visited Glenmont, Thomas Edison's residence in West Orange, on Sunday.
Nice place, run by the National Park Service and free.
On the grounds is Edison's home, a garage, a barn and a greenhouse.
Inside the greenhouse are huge agave plants (succulents). The plants are offspring of Edison's original plant. Apparently, I missed the fact that the plants are for sale ($10 each). How could I have missed that?
Anyway, wouldn't an Edison agave make for an interesting gift?
Entrance to the park is off of Main Street and Lakeside Avenue in the private community of Llwellyn, West Orange.
Information: 973-324-9973 or http://www.nps.gov/edis/
The fall 2008 bulb season is here.
I recently received a John Scheepers catalog in the mail.
My 88-page booklet offers up pages and pages of tulip, narcissi and lily choices. It also features many "more" unique bulb plants -- like the muscari, anemones, scilla and fritillaria.
The guide also includes holiday gift boxes of paperwhites and amaryllis.
Information: 860-567-0838 or www.johnscheepers.com
Englewood's Flat Rock Brook Nature Association was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from The Community Chest serving Englewood, Tenafly and Englewood Cliffs.
The grant will be used to purchase a global positioning unit allowing the center to map trails, brooks, invasive plant species and monitor plant life changes throughout the 150-acre preserve.
Photo courtesy of The Community Chest -- Steven Weissner, executive director of Flat Rock Brook Nature Association and Richard Kennedy, representing The Community Chest.
Not sure you are cut out for gardening? Why not try a virtual garden first?
Try out your green thumb by planting a digital garden at http://wish-bone.com/ -- and enter for a chance to win one of 2,000 Greenshopper reusable produce bag.
Plus, see how you can help Wish-Bone donate money to the National Gardening Association's Adopt A School Garden program.
My Thursday, June 26 "From The Ground Up" column is about my newest toy, the rain barrel.
Why'd I get it? Where'd I get? How hard was the setup? Do I like it so far? ... inquiring minds want to know ...
If you can't get to a hard copy of the paper, here is the online link:
http://www.northjersey.com/betterliving/Edel_Finding_the_right_rain_barrel.html
Better late than never ...
I almost forget to post mention of Colleen Diskin's Friday, June 20th article about a rare wildflower discovered in northwest New Jersey.
The fern-leaf scorpion-flower or Phacella bipinnatifida was found at Whittingham Wildlife Management Area in Sussex County. The biennial plant while rare in New Jersey, can be found throughout much of the eastern United States.
Here is the online link to Colleen's story: http://www.northjersey.com/environment/environmentnews/20592774.html
Photo courtesy of www.fs.fed.us
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