{"id":577,"date":"2009-02-08T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=577"},"modified":"2009-02-08T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T22:52:07","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"In the news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several items of note this week …<\/p>\n

US Airways inflight magazine had a special section on Ithaca<\/a>. Honestly, I haven’t read it yet. And have read that it glossed over some of the negatives about Ithaca. But hey. It’s an inflight magazine. Come visit. Come spend. Come invest. It’s a great place. And check out the ad on page 105<\/a>. Those are my friends Scott and Marcia in their first modeling gig. They didn’t get paid much. But any job that involves drinking wine at 9 a.m. in a beautiful setting like that can’t be all bad.<\/p>\n

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It was good to see Cornell Chronicle feature an article about Mullestein Winter Garden<\/a> at Cornell Plantations. Would that all our gardens be so vibrant and satisfying this time of the year. I posted about this garden<\/a> (with lots of pictures) back in November.<\/p>\n

And in her column in this week’s New York Times, New This Year: The Tried and True<\/a>, Anne Raver called Michael Dosmann, a recently minted Ph.D. from out Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, a horticultural star<\/a>, speaking on a panel with Dan Hinkley and Ken Druse. Michael — who injected more golden raintrees into the local flora palette than you can shake a stick at — is now curator of living collections at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston. HIs observations in the article include:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep up with all these cultivars. … I read the descriptions and they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem different from the species, so why would I even bother?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Mr. Dosmann was one of three horticultural stars who spoke at last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Plant-O-Rama, an annual gathering of gardeners at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, co-sponsored by Metro Hort Group, an association of horticulturists. He focused on tried-and-true plants that have withstood the vagaries of weather and disease, some since the arboretum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founding in 1872.<\/p>\n

Mr. Dosmann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorites, flashed on the screen of the jammed auditorium, included Hydrangea paniculata Praecox, brought back from Japan by the arboretum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first director, Charles Sprague Sargent, in 1892; Mary Potter, a hybrid crabapple tree with a long, low canopy, planted at the arboretum in 1952; and Heptacodium miconioides, or seven-son-flower, a colorful shrub imported from China in 1980.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Whether hard times or a longing for fresh peas will bring more people to the garden \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and keep them there \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is anybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guess.<\/p>\n

But those of us who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay away, even when our bodies complain, sat up when Mr. Dosmann flashed an image on the screen of two 18-foot Praecox hydrangeas, planted more than a century ago, covered with flowers.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never been pruned,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope I look that good when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m over 100 years old.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several items of note this week … US Airways inflight magazine had a special section on Ithaca. Honestly, I haven’t read it yet. And have read that it glossed over some of the negatives about Ithaca. But hey. It’s an inflight magazine. Come visit. Come spend. Come invest. It’s a great place. And check out … Continue reading “In the news”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}