A 32,000 year old seed germinates? Maybe. Maybe not. For more info read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/new-life-from-an-arctic-flower-that-died-32000-years-ago.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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Garden Quotes
- "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Cicero
- "The only thing two gardeners agree on is that the third is wrong." Mike McGrath
- " If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.” Audra Foveo
- "The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies" G. Jekyll
- "What I like about gardening is that it makes a mockery of intentions" Mirabel Osler
- "The best place to find God is in the garden. You can dig for him there." George Bernard Shaw
- "A familiar irony of horticulture is that gardeners desire plants that are the most difficult to obtain." Judith Sumner, 2004
- "A traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment." Ch. Darwin, 1839
- "How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existance" Benjamin Disraeli, 1845
- "Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time." Georgia O'Keeffe
- "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change" Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), 5th Century B.C.E.
- "Whatsoever whether great or small ugly or handsom sweet or stinking... everything in the universe appears beautifull to mee." John Bartram, 1740
- "In my examination of orchids, hardly any fact has so much struck me as the endless diversity of structure for gaining the very same end, namely, the fertilization of one flower by the pollen of another." Charles Darwin
- "Who has ever dreamed of finding an utilitarian purpose in the forms and colours of flowers?" Thomas Huxley
- "When I observe the fate of Botanists, upon my word I doubt whether to call them sane or mad in their devotion to plants" Linnaeus 1737
Some favorite resources
- Brent and Becky's Bulbs, www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com
- Central VA Waste Management Authority: http://www.cboinc.com/cvwma/
- Composting blog: http://www.compostguide.com/
- Edible Landscaping, www.ediblelandscaping.com
- IN Berry Farm http://www.indianaberry.com/
- Metro DC Lawn and Garden Blog http://www.metro-dc-lawn-garden-blog.com/2010/07/20/central-virginia-organic-gardener/
- Monticello http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/plants---seeds.html
- Organic Gardening magazine, www.organicgardening.com/
- Pine tree Garden Seeds, www.superseeds.com
- Safe lawns: http://safelawns.org/index.cfm
- Soil Survey: http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
- The Dean of Green podcast, http://www.wglt.org/podcasts/Dean_of_Green.xml
About Me
- Judy Thomas
- Central Virginia, United States
- I am a 50-something mother of one involved in all sorts of pursuits, from gardening to crafting to botanical illustration and I teach part time at a local University. I believe in organic as a method and way of life and making and growing things as a way to keep me happy!
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