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Mar 19, 2020

Political Analyst Steve Flowers Weighs In On Super Tuesday - Alabama News Network

Justin Walker Candidates are in the final full week of campaigning before Super Tuesday. It’s a day in which Alabama is one of several states holding its primary elections. Alabama’s primaries are still a few days away, but we spoke with Alabama News Network’s Political Analyst Steve Flowers about some of the important points of those primaries. “I think we will see presidential candidates but polling indicates that some of them may not do as well in Alabama- so those probably may not come,” Flowers said. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is expected to participate in the annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee. Flowers says that could make him a front runner to earn Alabama resident’s votes. “The Selma pilgrimage has become a must-do event for a leading Democratic candidate,” Flowers said. Flowers also weighed in on the U.S. Senate race’s GOP primary between Jeff Sessions, Tommy Tubberville, and Bradley Byrne. “There’s still a lot of undecided voters. And polling has sessions in the lead, but Tubberville and Byrne have moved significantly. And they’re in a fight to being in a runoff with sessions, probably,” Flowers said. Jeff Coleman, Troy King, and Jessica Taylor are battling it for the US House ...

Feb 1, 2020

Master Gardener: M is for Michaelmas daisies — asters for fall color - The Daily World

Do it in spring just as new shoots are emerging. New England asters (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) are native from Vermont to Alabama and west to North Dakota, Wyoming and New Mexico. Stout-stemmed plants 3 to 5 inches tall and almost as wide have blooms that are violet blue in basic form with others in blue shades, white, pink, nearly red and deep purple. Two favorites are Alma Potschke and Harrington’s Pink, each with clear pink single flowers. The New York aster, Aster novi-bellgii, is native to eastern North America (Zones 1-24). It grows 4 feet wide and 3 feet tall with full clusters of bright blue-violet flowers. Among the many choices of A. novi-belgii are Persian Rose (rose pink) and semi-double Professor Kippenburg (lavender blue). The robust Climax variety bears large sprays of single medium-blue blossoms on stems 6 feet tall. Aster x frikartii Monch, native to the Himalayas, is planted in other parts of the perennial beds in my garden. It is upright 16 inches tall and wide with purple blue sprays of 2-inch-wide flowers. Their growth habit differs a bit from many of the above plants and are the finest, most useful and widely adapted of perennials. In large borders or among shrubs, tall asters with their abundant color are invaluable as companion plantings. Hardy chrysanthemums and asters are complementary with their contrasting colors of peach, yellow and rusty reds. Clouds of coreopsis, switch grass and other grasses, black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) and the burgundy seed pods of penstemons add to the color until frost arrives. Massing several plants of some of these varieties together creates a delicate balance. At season’s end, a carefully planned palette transitions to blue, gold and burgundy and a colorful finale as winter approaches. This article, by Master Gardener Dolores Cavanah, is part of an occasional series in which she describes the plants she most admires at her expansive garden at Schafer Meadows, east of Montesano. Visit her during the 2020 WSU Master Gardener Garden Tour on July 18. Ramesh NG photo The New York aster (Aster novi-bellgii) grows 4 feet wide and 3 feet tall with full clusters of bright blue-violet flowers.Patrick Standish photo Among the many varieties of New York aster is the Professor Kippenburg, which has lavender-blue blooms.

Nov 9, 2019

MYSTERY PLANT: Mystery Plant closely resembles holly | Features - Aiken Standard

EWS FLASH: There is a relatively new plant disease out there now called “laurel wilt,” known now from the coastal counties of the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and all of Florida. It kills members of the laurel family, including native species such as red bay. Our Mystery Plant is susceptible to this disease, as are other species in the same genus. This is a serious problem now for ecologists and forest managers. You will probably start hearing more about it, unfortunately.)[Answer: “Spice bush,” Lindera benzoin] .ctct-form-embed.form_7 .ctct-form-defaults {background-color: #f2f2f2;} div.ctct-form-embed div.ctct-form-defaults {font: 14px 'Open Sans', sans-serif; padding: 10px 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; border-radius:0px;} div.ctct-form-embed div.ctct-form-defaults h2.ctct-form-header {font: 18px 'clarendon_fsbold'; border-bottom: solid 1px #cccccc; padding-bottom: 8px;} div.ctct-form-embed div.ctct-form-defaults p.ctct-form-text {font: 14px 'Open Sans', sans-serif ;} div.ctct-form-embed form.ctct-form-custom div.ctct-form-field {margin: 0 0 12px 0;} div.ctct-form-embed form.ctct-form-custom label.ctct-form-label {margin-bottom: 5px;} div.ctct-form-embed form.ctct-form-custom input.ctct-form-element {height:30px;} div.ctct-form-embed form.ctct-form-custom button.ctct-form-button {padding: 8px;} .g-recaptcha {display:none;} ...

Oct 10, 2019

Obituary: Matthew Dean Abati, 22, of Wallingford | Wallingford - Wallingford, CT Patch

He loved The University of Notre Dame Football and went to a number of games, including the 2012 National Championship game vs Alabama. Matt was survived by his loving brother Ben and his adoring sister Hailey. Matt was predeceased by a sister Ali. Matt was also predeceased by his paternal grandparents Alfred and Rosemary Abati and survived by his maternal grandparents Robert and Elaine Florio and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Matt's life was short but incredibly impactful to all who met him. His thoughts and his focus were always toward others and how he could make the world a better place. But Matt was not one to talk about that goal, Matt put it into action. Whether it was giving cash to the homeless in Philly or his career choice, Matt was determined to leave his mark on the world, one person at a time. The visiting hours will be Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the North Haven Funeral Home, 36 Washington Avenue. Family and friends are invited to go directly to Church of the Resurrection, 57 Pond Hill Road, Wallingford on Thursday morning at 9:30 to attend a Mass of Christian Burial and are also invited to attend the committal service immediately following in Beaverdale Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Matthew Abati Scholarship Fund at ASD Fitness Center 307 Racebook Road, Orange, CT 06477. For more information and to leave online condolences, visit North Haven Funeral Home here.

Jul 26, 2019

This sunflower field is Alabama’s happy place - AL.com

Each May, Todd Sheridan plants nearly a million seeds over 40 acres of land along Alabama Highway 14 in the small town in central Alabama where he grew up. The property has been in his family since his grandparents purchased it in the 1940s.The sunflower field started as a happy accident. Todd and a friend were trying to decide what to plant when they were approached by someone who wanted to pay them per acre to produce sunflower seeds for deer. “We did that and had a pretty good crop,” he says. “At the end of the year, we put 155,000 pounds of seed in the guy’s bin. He wasn’t expecting that much.”The customer still hasn’t used all the seeds, Todd says with a chuckle.That first year, the sunflowers were planted along a dirt road where nobody saw them. But after Todd consulted with an agronomist, he decided to plant them on his property along the state highway. Once the sunflowers began to grow, “I left the gates open because I knew people would want to take pictures,” he says.A Montgomery TV station, WFSA, used a photo of Todd’s sunflowers as a backdrop for its weather coverage. “That’s when it started,” he says. When Kevin Henderson of Alabama Aerial Photography/SkyBama posted a video from his drone camera flying over the field, suddenly it became a fiel...