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Books on Gardening

Submitted by Mark McD on

While visiting my daughter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (central Massachusetts) we headed north to the little town of Montague (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague,_Massachusetts) to an interesting destination; a funky used book store (with restaurant and bar) called the Montague Bookmill. It is situated alongside the scenic Sawmill River in a wooded setting.
http://www.montaguebookmill.com/

Help with Photographs?

Submitted by Kristl on

Hi All,

Is anyone able to help with pictures---or undertake to photograph the following????
These will ultimately go into my book on native species of eastern Canada (from a sexual propagation perspective).
Obviously you will receive credit. Unfortunately I am not able to pay for the photographs.
Photos need to be high (print) quality.
I am looking for the species, not hybrids/forms.
The "body parts" required are noted.

John Weiser

Submitted by HughGmail on

Hello all;

Those of you who know John will want to know that he suffered a minor (any such thing?) heart attack earlier this week. John is recovering and should be home Monday. If you want to send him a message, his email address is [email protected]

regards,
Hugh

Potentilla dilemma

Submitted by cohan on

I have a Potentilla in my garden which I collected in B.C. when I was in my teens, and grew in my rock garden for a few years till I left home; when I moved back, there was no sign of the plant (or most others of course, with a couple decades of neglect--it was mostly weeds, grass and native plants grown in), but after I redug parts of the garden, it reappeared presumably from seed..

Ranunculus 2011

Submitted by Lori S. on

If I start this, will anyone else join in? I hope so!
I suppose one of the disadvantages of participating on forums from the relatively far north is that everyone else's specimens have already bloomed!) Oh well, one can but try... :)

Nice plant in a bad place...

Submitted by Lori S. on

I think I know what this is, but does anyone care to guess? I had a good-sized colony of this some time ago, that seeded around a bit. I'm not sure if these seedlings got out in this area along the sidewalk on their own (from fine dust-like seeds blowing around) or in the roots of some other plant I moved, but it looks like a flower is imminent on one of them.
If they are what I think they are, how to protect them from the assorted vandals, visigoths and rampaging huns that use the sidewalk daily? The land mines aren't working... ;D