Happy New Year! I hope everyone had restful and enjoyable holidays. In addition to looking back over the year that just past, a common New Year’s tradition is to make predictions for the coming year. Without going too far out on a limb, one of my predictions for the upcoming year is that the debate over invasive plants will continue to intensify, especially as it relates to Landscape Horticulture. Along these lines, a couple of recent articles by Gregorio Gavier-Pizarro and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and the USDA Forest Service caught my eye.… Continue reading this article “New Year’s Prediction: Invasive Fire Continues to Burn”
Month: January 2011
Friday puzzle uprooted!
Wow, we had some very creative answers on this one – and all of them made sense! Peter, however, was spot on with his identification of roots (of a Thanksgiving cactus) growing in water (in an antique graduated cylinder). I made it tricker by turning the photo upside down on Friday. Here it is right side up:
What I love about this photo is that the various parts of actively growing roots are clear (more or less): starting from the bottom you can begin to see the root tip and the hairless zone of elongation, followed by the zone of maturation with fuzzy root hairs, followed at the top by the area where lateral roots develop.</d