Robert Brown's Flower Shoppe

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Robert Brown's Flower Shoppe

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836 S Woodlawn Ave

City:

Lima

State:

Ohio

Zip Code:

45805

Phone number:

(419) 224-7746

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Climate change in the garden | The JOLT - The Journal of Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater - The Jolt News

Now that we know that our climate is becoming both hotter and more unpredictable, the question is not just whether we can adapt again; it’s whether we can adapt fast, and then adapt again and again and again. It isn’t as if there will be a new normal we can adjust to. There just won’t be a normal. We will live and garden in the midst of constant uncertainty because climate change is now incremental and inevitable. Each year may be different than the last, not just in rising temperatures, but also in the timing and quantity of rainfall and the likelihood of more severe storms. These changes – and this level of unpredictability – are already baked in our cake; they will happen for decades to come even if we succeed at making major reductions in global carbon emissions in the next 20 or 30 years. This is the consequence of being way too slow to respond to a known danger. So what is a gardener to do? First, grieve that it’s come to this. Second, reflect on our role – as gardeners and as citizens in a democracy that gives us a voice in our future. Third, plan. As we walk around our gardens, it’s time to pay attention to which plants coped and which suffered in the heat. It’s time to think about how to make our gardens more resilient and diverse, so that even if one crop fails, we have others that will flower or put food on our tables. Our plants – both vegetable and ornamental – are trying their best. On two of my favorites, open flowers were scorched, but the buds that opened after the severe heat had passed look fine. Now that’s resilience. By the end of the week, they helped me recover from being mired in my dark thoughts about climate change. A wise elder once said to me, “Grieve your losses and then move on.” The “moving on” part of that challenges us to gather our wits, and to use all our skills as gardeners and citizens to adapt to our changing future, and to push for making that future livable. Jill Se...

Biggest L.A. corpse flower at the Huntington: What to know - Los Angeles Times

Tam’s best educated guess is this Thursday or Friday, largely due to the plant’s fast-paced growth this week. (The conservatory is climate controlled so that the humidity replicates the climate of tropical rainforests in Singapore and Ecuador.) Hooray! Stankosaurus Rex is now the biggest #CorpseFlower in Huntington history, measuring 82 inches tall as of this morning.???? The previous record was held by our 2009 bloom at 81 inches. Here's hoping we see a bloom soon! https://t.co...

Flowers! - EurekAlert

Tropical rainforests today are biodiversity hotspots and play an important role in the world's climate systems. A new study published today in Science sheds light on the origins of modern rainforests and may help scientists understand how rainforests will respond to a rapidly changing climate in the future. The study led by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) shows that the asteroid impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs 66 million years ago also caused 45% of plants in what is now Colombia to go extinct, and it made way for the reign of flowering plants in modern tropical rainforests. "We wondered how tropical rainforests changed after a drastic ecological perturbation such as the Chicxulub impact, so we looked for tropical plant fossils," said Mónica Carvalho, first author and joint postdoctoral fellow at STRI and at the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia. "Our team examined over 50,000 fossil pollen records and more than 6,000 leaf fossils from before and after the impact." In Central and South America, geologists hustle to find fossils expos...

Will late rains bring a wildflower super bloom to California deserts this year? - Desert Sun

Cornett likes to stay positive when rains do come, but he said this year's storms are too little, too late. He and other area biologists blame climate change for more frequent, more severe droughts, depriving even water-savvy desert plants of the inch or so they need to bloom. Jim Dice, reserve manager for UC Irvine's Steele Burnand Research Center in Borrego Springs, agrees this year is bleak if you're looking for rolling carpets of orange poppies or hot pink sand verbena. He recalls that about 30 years ago, "the March skies opened week after week, and by the end of the month into early April, we had carpets of wildflowers.""So it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility, but it's pretty unlikely," said Dice. "Even in the worst years there are wildflowers, but there are not going to be any carpets like you see in what people call the super bloom years."The scant precipitation through the winter months means a super dud of a season in many places. The Antelope Valley live camera webstream shows dry, dun-colored fields. There are no traffic jams near Lake Elsinore on Interstate 15, like there were two years ago, when pounding rains on Valentine's Day and through the winter led to spectacular super blooms dubbed "Flowermageddon." A few blooms in Anza-Borrego State ParkBut at Anza-Borrego State Park in Borrego Springs, bits of scarlet fluttering atop spindly ocotillo stems right now aren't birds, they're flowers. Fat yellow creosote buds got a good soaking in early March, and desert sunshine had them popping open within days, with hungry bees crowding in.Perennials like ocotillo likely have enough moisture and sugars stored in their roots and stems to bloom, Cornett explained. Brittlebush is also sporting its typical yellow daisy-like petals. But even ocotillos "have their limit," he said. Too many recent, severe droughts have done in some plants. "In the California deserts, indeed in the West in general, we are getting about 10% less rainfall and twice as many droughts lasting three years or longer," said Cornett. "This is the price we're paying for climate change, these recurring drou...

Wildflowers are starting to bloom. Here’s where to see them in the Bay Area and California - San Francisco Chronicle

Marin County In northwest Marin, the Douglas iris blooms can be a showstopper, and the best bets are around Limantour Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore and Tomales Bay State Park. “We’re currently enjoying the purple pops of Douglas iris,” State Park Ranger Nick Turner said. At Point Reyes, the Chimney Rock Headland can be legendary — 90 species of wildflowers can provide a coronation of spring. But winds out of the northwest and warm temperatures faded the bloom. Chimney Rock and the nearby Point Reyes Lighthouse are still enough of a draw that the Park Service is enforcing a visitor quota on weekends past the turnoff at Drakes Beach Road. At Marin County Parks, the best prospects are at Loma Alta, Baltimore Canyon, Ring Mountain and Mount Burdell, Passantino said. Ring Mountain Preserve, off Paradise Drive in Corte Madera overlooking the Tiburon shore, can be spectacular, she said. “Expanses of goldfields, tidy tips and other early bloomers make for a spring classic,” Passantino said. “The multicolored flowers provide a foreground for spectacular views of the bay.” East Bay hills Hikers at Mount Diablo State Park have been sharing their wildflower sightings through the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Pockets of California poppies are often sighted along North Gate Road and Summit Road. The vicinity of Murchio Gap, accessed from Eagle Peak Trail or Bald Ridge Trail, often has the widest variety. Blooms include poppies, silver lupine, Pacific pea, periwinkle and larkspur. Across the 75 parks in the East Bay Regional Park District, the best for wildflowers are Black Diamond, Anthony Chabot, Sunol and the Briones-to-Diablo Trail. Of these, Black Diamond Regional Preserve, south of Highway 4 near Pittsburg, ranks No. 1 — the Stewartville Trail can be one of the best shows around in early April. Lupine, paintbrush, Ithuriel’s spear, blue dicks and owl’s clover are among the sightings. “Wildflowers are out and seem to be close to normal, even with the dry year,” said Dave Mason at park headquarters. “April is the best time year to see wildflowers in regional parks.” Santa Clara County This has been a good spring for yellow mustard and California poppies across the foothills above Santa Clara Valley. At headquarters for Santa Clara County Parks, Tamara Clark suggested Calero, Santa Teresa, Coyote Lake and Grant County parks. Every April, a wild card is Almaden Quicksilver County Park, south of San Jose. The Mine Hill Trail can be a spectacular show, and early April can be best for monkey flower. Other common early arrivals can include lupine, poppies, buttercup and if you’re lucky, shooting stars.