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Apr 4, 2021

Programs to help Montclairians jump-start their gardens - Montclair Local

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye tomatoes, Bright Lights Swiss chard and an almost seedless eggplant lunga. Hardy flowering plants such as black hollyhocks, foxgloves that grow up to 5 feet and sweet-smelling jasmine will also be on sale. Most are $4.50, with some larger plants at $10.Preorders via mail or email are due April 11 and must be picked up on May 6. Payment will be taken that day. The sale will open to the general public May 7- 9 or until they sell out.For those searching for a sustainable native garden, the Essex Chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Jersey will hold a free webinar, “Native Gardening for Beginners,” on Tuesday, March 30, at 7 p.m. Dennis HillerudThe program is for both newbie gardeners and those wanting to attract more butterflies, bees, dragonflies and birds. Speaker Dennis Hillerud will teach why native plants are ecologically important and how to work them into the garden. He will showcase 10 native plants that are easy to grow and to buy, and explain how to plant and maintain them.Hillerud is a founding member of the steering committee of the Essex Chapter, owner of DNH Gardens and a master gardener who has taught and lectured widely about horticulture.Deb Ellis, a co-leader of the Essex Chapter, said, “With the increased interest in gardening since the pandemic, we are excited to be offering this webinar. Native plants have a unique and innate beauty, but they also provide irreplaceable wildlife habitat and are key elements in sustaining the earth’s cycle of...

Oct 15, 2020

The Artists Giving New Life to Fake Flowers - The New York Times

John Derian, the home décor shop in Manhattan’s East Village. The Berkeley, Calif., artist Anandamayi Arnold, 45, makes everything from pomegranates to irises (rhizome included) covered in richly hued crepe paper. Her decorative blooms also double as party favors: The hollow insides hold secret trinkets like friendship bracelets and stickers.Then there’s Sourabh Gupta, 30, who grew up in northern India, and who constructs his microscopically detailed blooms — Queen Anne’s lace, lady’s slippers and hellebore anchored in distressed terra-cotta or stone pots — in his Brooklyn studio, using everyday materials: Petals are made from paper towels hand-painted with food dye, coffee and tea; stamens are made from kitchen sponges. Boulder, Colo.-based Stephanie Redlinger, 39, a former graphic designer who launched her paper botanical atelier, the Florasmith, in San Francisco in 2015, considers her flowers and the mushrooms she has perfected, made primarily from crepe paper embellished with materials like sand, “as botanical portrait or homage” — realistic but with an emphasis on each creation’s essential quirks, such as a poppy’s wrinkles. The paper artist Zoe Bradley, 47, whose studio is in Cowbridge, near Cardiff, Wales, takes a more abstract, performative approach to her flowers. She began her career at the fashion house Alexander McQueen, where she built wooden legs and fan-shaped corsets for one of the designer’s elaborate runway shows, and her psychedelic-meets-origami blossoms, which she creates from stiff metallic paper, have been displayed in the windows of London stores including Liberty and Harrods.And then there’s Tiffanie Turner, based in Fairfax, Calif., who is widely acknowledged as the progenitor and doyenne of the new generation of paper-flower makers, teaching popular workshops on the subject. She shows her work in galleries and museums, like the a...

Mar 19, 2020

How the monkeyflower gets its spots - UC Berkeley

Benjamin Blackman, assistant professor of plant and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more See the companion press release at UConn Today In a new paper, Blackman and his group at UC Berkeley, in collaboration with Yaowu Yuan and his group at the University of Connecticut, reveal for the first time the genetic programming that helps the monkeyflower — and likely other patterned flowers — achieve their spotted glory. The study was published online today (Thursday, Feb. 20) in the journal Current Biology. “While we know a good deal about how hue is specified in flower petals — whether it is red or orange or blue, for instance — we don’t know a lot about how those pigments are then painted into patterns on petals during development to give rise to these spots and stripes that are often critical for interacting with pollinators,” Blackman said. “Our lab, in collaboration with others, has developed the genetic tools to be able to identify the genes related to these patterns and perturb them so that we can confirm what’s actually going on.” In the study, the research team used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to recreate the yellow monkeyflower patterns found in nature. On the left, a wild-type monkeyflower exhibits the typical spotted pattern. In the middle, a heterozygote with one normal RTO gene and one damaged RTO gene exhibits blotchier spots. And on the right, homozygote with two copies of the damaged RTO gene is all red, with no spots. (UC Berkeley photo by Srinidhi Holalu) The positions of petals’ spots aren’t mapped out ahead of time, like submarines in a game of battleship, Blackman said. Instead, scientists have long theorized that they could come about through the workings of an activator-repressor...

Nov 9, 2019

Letters to the Editor: Colonial Lake's plants are in flower - Charleston Post Courier

Courier reported on the “turf war” in which local hospital systems are engaged to stop each other from building facilities or providing services in Berkeley and Charleston counties.Hospital systems use the state Certification of Need law to stymie competitors’ plans while they proceed with their own. Charleston hospitals at war over MUSC's plans to build in Berkeley CountyWorse, they use the CON process and considerable resources to keep independent, cost-effective, high quality options from operating in our communities.The reason, as stated in the article, is that competition would have financial consequences for the established companies.We think the consequences of the CON law are far more detrimental to patients than competition might be for feuding health care systems.We have the ninth most restrictive CON law in the country and, as a direct result, insufficient numbers of surgery centers, addiction treatment facilities, birthing centers and other services.South Carolina has an estimated 6,331 fewer hospital beds than needed, 10-19 fewer MRI facilities than needed and 33-44 fewer CT scanners than needed.Rural patients travel farther for routine procedures and treatments, and urban patients are artificially limited to expensive, hospital-owned facilities.Charity medical care, a condition of the CON law, is less in our state than in non-CON states, according to a study by George Mason University Mercatus Center (bit.ly/36tcacm).The end result chokes off options for patients. The state of South Carolina needs to stop empowering the South Carolina Hospital Association and its members at the public’s expense and open the door to competition with all its consequences: increased access to more better quality options at lower costs and increased charity care.The CON law needs to be repealed.DR. MARCELO HOCHMANPresident, Charleston County Medical SocietyDirector, Coalition to Repeal CON input#fieldEmail {width:100%; border: 1px solid #b0b6bb; box-shadow: inset 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); border-radius:3px;} button.js-cm-submit-button {width:100%; font-family:"adelle-sans", sans-serif; color: #fff; background-color:#0078c1; padding:3px 0; border:0px;} h3.signup-header {font:18px 'adelle-sans', sans-serif; border-bottom: solid 1px #cccccc; padding-bottom:8px;} h5.description {font-family:"adelle-sans", sans-serif; line-height:inherit;} label {font-size:smaller; font-family:"adelle-sans", sans-serif; font-weight: 400;} Sign up for our ne...

Oct 10, 2019

Reva F. Flowers - The Fulton County News

Reva Fern Flowers, 86, Hancock, Md., passed away at the War Memorial Hospital, in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., Thursday, October 3, 2019. Born July 1, 1933, in Berkeley Springs, she was the daughter of the late William M. and Syvillia F. (Marshall) Hovermale and the widow of Reed Elsworth Flowers, who passed away on February 10, 2017. She was a member of Mt. Olivet Presbyterian Church, in Hancock. She was retired from employment with London Fog Mfg., in Hancock, and loved spending time with her family, and gardening. She is survived by two sons: Mike Flowers, Hancock, and Lawrence Flowers and his wife, Debbie, Berkeley Springs; a sister, Priscilla Ann Walker Fissel and her husband, John, Berkeley Springs; four grandchildren: Angie and Matthew Flowers, Bobbi Jo Kelly and her husband, Kent, and Miranda Kerns; and three great-grandchildren, Noah True, Lucas Morgan, and Carter Kerns. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by five brothers: Dayton, Vernon, Albert, Watson and Richard Hovermale; and five sisters: Helen, Julia, Dorothy, Jean and Carme...