Bill McKibben, in his devastating 1989 book The End of Nature, noted wryly: The greenhouse effect is a more apt name than those who coined it imagined. The carbon dioxide and trace gases act like panes of glass on a greenhouse — the analogy is accurate. But it’s more than that. We have built a [...]
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Weeds, part 2
Posted in Down East, Garden on 19 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
Endlich, Sommer
Posted in Garden, tagged Garden, japanese maples, Maine, trees on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here in Maine we’re in the midst of something approaching a perfect horticultural year. There was heavy snow last winter — a good thing, on the whole, because it provides a thick free layer of insulation for low-growing plants, protecting them from premature thawing and frost-heave and other such calamities. Spring was marvelously sunny, though [...]
