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This month, the floor is shared by Executive Director Fred Breglia and Garden Manager Erin Breglia
Like a skilled mechanic or carpenter, every gardener and arborist needs specific tools to do specific jobs. From digging and planting to weeding and pruning, certain tools are better for accomplishing projects correctly the first – and every – time. No two gardeners use the same tools to accomplish the same tasks, but the bottom line is: quality matters. Gardening is a lifetime activity: buy the very best you can afford. [Read more] |
Caution: To all our intrepid walkers and hikers - in the coming weeks it is likely there will be Tyrannosaurus Rex sightings at the Arboretum. Word has it that a fearsome T. Rex, recently a resident of Duanesburg, will be seen stalking the Arboretum. When T. Rex is in place, we'll update with pictures in an email to all our faithful readers.
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Celebrate the Spring Gardening Season:
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- Anita Sanchez
They look like spatters of grayish-blue/green paint staining bark and stones: the dried-up, twisted forms of lichens. Once you start looking, you notice them everywhere at the Arboretum — on rock walls, stumps, twigs and branches. Lichens are two distinct and unrelated organisms — a species of fungi and a species of algae — living together in a symbiotic relationship. It’s not that they happen to be growing in the same place — they actually combine to form a whole new entity. Like any good relationship, it’s a two-way street. [Read more] |
-Anne Donnelly
An asparagus bed is a lifetime investment. Once this vegetable is established, it will keep producing yearly for generations. Besides a delicious flavor and nutritious attributes, asparagus is also valued for its quick and early appearance in the spring garden. I'm asking you to suspend your judgment until you give this very unlikely but delicious dish a try.
It's an open faced sandwich starting with toast; spread that with peanut butter (I like chunky), then steamed asparagus, then crisp bacon and top it with warm Welsh Rarebit sauce. [Read more] |
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From the Meeting House Deck: A Geologist’s View - Ed Stander, SUNY Cobleskill
While Esperance and its surroundings are lush and verdant throughout much of the year, the lands that comprise the Arboretum grounds weren’t always so green. Some 450 million years ago, for example, the Arboretum was located much farther south than it is today (good for trees) and several hundred feet underwater (probably not so good for trees). [Read More] Landis Portraits:
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THE LANDIS ARBORETUM NEWSLETTER is published quarterly for its members.
The Arboretum’s mission is to foster the appreciation of trees and other plants and their importance in our environment. EDITORIAL BOARD Erin Breglia, Gail Browning, Anne Cushing; Wilma Jozwiak; Lee Lattimer; Nolan Marciniec, chair; Louise Polli; Ambika Sambasivan; and Louis Suarato, photojournalist CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Erin Breglia, Fred Breglia, Gail Browning, Anne Donnelly; Wilma Jozwiak, Cynthia King; Nolan Marciniec, Louise Polli; Ambika Sambasivan, Anita Sanchez; and Eric Stander PRINTER Miller Printing and Litho, Amsterdam, NY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jim Paley, President; Wilma Jozwiak, Vice President; Nolan Marciniec, Secretary; Carolyn Edwards, Treasurer; Louise Polli, At Large; Ann Bevins; Karl Gufstason; Mark Hay; Jeanne Post-Sourmail; Ed Radle; and Earl VanWormer ARBORETUM STAFF Fred Breglia, Executive Director; Nancy Stuebner, Office Manager; Erin Breglia, Garden Manager; Corey Haynes & Eric Roberts, Groundskeepers We value your input. Please address correspondence to: Newsletter Editor, Landis Arboretum, P.O. Box 186, Esperance, NY 12066. Phone: 518-875-6935, Fax: 518-875-6394, Email: [email protected] Website: www.LandisArboretum.org The Arboretum is located at 174 Lape Road, Esperance, NY. It is one and one-half miles north of Route 20 in Esperance. Follow the signs from the village to Lape Road. The Arboretum is one-quarter mile straight ahead. Visit our website for more information and directions. |