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The Prints of Frances Gearhart

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Design
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...Honor gift shop. Methinks we could all benefit from having more images of trees and mountains in our lives in addition to surrounding ourselves with, well, real trees and mountains. Museums should also include more work by women artists who make up just 2% of the world art market. If you’d like to see more of Gearhart’s work check out francesgearhart.com. The Minneapolis Institute of Art has an exhibition open through March that includes some of...

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Saturday Tweets: Goodbye 2018

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Saturday Linkages
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..., but Milarch and his son, Jake, discovered living tissue growing from the trees’ roots…” Giant coast redwoods, cut down in the 19th century, successfully cloned. https://t.co/FHL7Nzgj6H pic.twitter.com/dsAFkVoUp2 — Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) December 27, 2018 The shutdown comes to Joshua Tree, where, with no federal employees to keep an eye on things, people are littering, lighting illegal fires, and “stringing Christmas lights from delicate Joshu...

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Saturday Tweets: Playing Chicken, Healthy Eating and Fixing Stuff

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Saturday Linkages
...World https://t.co/cORNiMpRrh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 9, 2016 Trees Please!! These sweltering cities could be much cooler and cleaner if they planted more trees https://t.co/rFJW8jtu0U via @voxdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 4, 2016 Top Garden Trends for 2017 | Garden Design https://t.co/gLWfCUMCWl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 5, 2016 Huh. Kind of intriguing: Using jellyfish to make eco-friendly tampons, diapers an...

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Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer and Avocados

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests
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...noticed in 2003 here in Southern California, the PSHB seems to damage some trees more than others. Concerned about losing my avocado tree I wrote Akif Eskalen, a plant pathologist at the University of California, Riverside. Dr/ Eskalen’s lab has done a lot of work on the PSHB and what to do about it. I asked him specifically about avocados and here’s what he had to say in an email, My lab has been conducting a continuous survey on PSHB on infested...

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Help Plant a Garden — and Help a Local Eagle Scout

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...removed a large area of lawn, and on Friday they’ll be planting six fruit trees. It will transform the entrance to the church. Friday is supposed to be Taylor’s completion date, and there’s still a lot to do: installing headerboard (9am) composting the planting areas (morning) planting trees, flowers, vegetables (afternoon) assembling benches (all day) It’s a fun chance to work with an (exuberant) team of young scouts and to help get another sect...

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