by admin | Feb 18, 2011 | Horticulture, Publications, Apps, and Websites
Visit THEIR WEBSITE to see a list of New York commercially available native plants suitable for planned landscapes. We have not gone through the list to see how good it is but maybe some of our readers can comment. They have a lot of nice photos however.
by admin | Feb 17, 2011 | Happenings, Publications, Apps, and Websites
You can help celebrate this with the UN by going to their website and learning more. This is important since most of New York is forested. Here is the introduction at their website: Welcome to the International Year of Forests, 2011 (Forests 2011) Web site, a global...
by admin | Feb 17, 2011 | Ecology, Natural History
While browsing the website Parasite of the Day, I came across an interesting article about dodder and a reference about how they key on odors or chemical signals of some plants to find a host. Here is a detailed entry about it in the Why Files Blog. This species is...
by admin | Feb 16, 2011 | Plant Identification
I just returned from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy where I watched IBM’s Watson computer compete against humans in a game of Jeopardy. The huge auditorium of the EMPAC building was full of people (mostly students) interested in watching the...
by admin | Feb 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Now you have no excuse to not learn more about the genus Carex in New York with the release of this new identification key. It is a stunning assemblage of photos and drawings of the species of Carex in North America. You can sort them multiple ways, starting with New...
