This is where I bring home the sick Rhododendrons I get from work. Rhodies are prone to all sorts of diseases and issues like sun scorch. No one else from work wants to deal with them, but I’ve started to gladly cart these things home.
Earlier this spring I brought home two that had Phytopthora, we just cut the bad parts off and planted them in pure pine bark mulch. We have a running theory that part of the issue with Phytopthora is too high a pH. The plants have recovered nicely - no sprays or treatment.
Just the other day I dragged home - with the help of my coworker and good friend B - two large B&B Rhodies. The big native ones - Rhododendrom maximum!!! I’ve been wanting these for years… at work they were in full sun, got scorched, and B just didn’t want to deal with them anymore. YES.
This nicely coincides with our discovery that the eastern border of our property extends a slight bit further than we thought. On the east side there is an intermittent stream, which we thought we just had one side. Now it looks like we actually have both sides of a large chunk of it, PERFECT for large Rhodies! I’m pretty excited about this. It’s all a long term project but hopefully, eventually, I can have all sorts of Rhodies and other neat native woodland plants over there.
Since the first U.S. case of the coronavirus was identified in Washington state on Jan. 21, health officials have identified more than 13,000 cases across the United States. By March 17, the virus had expanded its presence from several isolated clusters in Washington, New York and California to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. To date, there have been 200 deaths across the country.
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Photo by @jonathan.peskett.photography This guy looks menacing, but the reality is, he was just about to yawn! in the Kruger National Park. #Wild #AT2G #Ndutu #Kruger #WildDog #WildDogs #Nature #Wildlife #Animals #Igs_Africa #Wildeyesa #Earthcapture https://www.instagram.com/p/B9csJRtA4c1/?igshid=durkpmmrw06g
1. These arenāt pictures from Venice, the pictures are taken in Burano. The canals there are always clean and filled with fish and swans.
2. These pictures (unknowingly) transport ecofascist ideas. They transport the ecofascist idea that the Corona virus did the earth a pleasure, which paves the way for genocide and eugenics. Itās racist and ethnonationalistic. Itās social Darwinism. The people who are killed by natural disasters and pandemics (which āclean the natureā) are mostly poor, disabled, Black and Indigenous People of Color, non-westerners, and other marginalized people (aka not the people who caused them). The people who exploit(ed) humans and nature are still profiting. They buy their bunker, they are able to buy food when others canāt, they get tested, they are able to work remotely and get paid, and able to do social distancing/quarantine. They still get to profit off of it (now buying cheap stocks in the crisis which will get pricier once the pandemic is over). They own hospital chains, supermarkets and online shops, which now make lots of money but still pay their now-so-existential staff badly, give them zero-hour-contracts, lay them off and/or ignore safety measures. Itās capitalism which enables the exploitation which leads to natural disasters and pandemic crisis.
3. People should have clean water and air whether or not there is a pandemic.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 needed more than three months to infect 100,000 people worldwide, with most of them in China. But the virus has surged since hitting that milestone earlier this month, infecting another 100,000 people in just 12 days, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
The picture of the virus’s impact has changed markedly this month, according to the WHO’s most recent data.
