Ed Pandolfino, SacramentoGardening.com’s bird expert, has been selected by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to help search the Arkansas bayous this March for the newly rediscovered Ivory-billed woodpecker. The search began in October and ends in late April. We’ll report back and let you know how it goes.
In the meantime, check out Cornell’s outstanding info page on this elusive species: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/
Check out the required garb…
I wanted to let folks know a locally-produced TV pilot called Grassroots Guide to Backyard Living is airing for the first time on KVIE’s ViewFinder on February 1st at 7pm and the following Sunday, February 5th, at 6pm. Yours truly talked a little gardening in it, but the show covers all aspects of backyard living, including cooking in a portable backyard firepit. Check it out!
Now that’s a tree house!
The Fab Tree Hab was designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Team H.E.D. [Human Ecology Design]– Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D., Lara Greden, Ph.D. and Javier Arbona, SMArchS.
Please make it stop raining. We are getting very stir-crazy. We are trying to be good but we are starting to feel the urge to chew furniture… the cookbook bindings and that dollar bill held us off for awhile, but we don’t know how much longer we can take this.
Respectfully,
Dan and Annie
The new edition of Sunset Western Landscaping is out now!
Jan. 23 update: Got my copy from amazon.com a few days ago. I give it 5 /5 stars. Sunset certainly didn’t skimp on glossy color photos, plant palettes are inspiring and reflect regional differences, and suggestions are given for special growing conditions. These are big-budget gardens, but the designers didn’t succumb to the tendency to unnecessarily overdo the hardscaping. Where hardscape is the dominant feature, it makes sense, like in the southwest. Plant lovers will find plenty of inspiration.
