Day: August 24, 2011

Calvert and Brodie

Hi, I’ve been scanning old Calvert catalogs from the ADS files and wondered about all the Brodie cultivars that have Cornish names. Was there a family relationship between Calvert and Brodie?  Or just a business relationship where Calvert bought Brodie…

Plant related but off topic – Deer Guard

I wanted to pass along to those of you who use the Deer Guard/Tree Guard product to repel deer, that EPA labeling regulations and the recession have forced the small company making it out of business. United Spray Systems “bugpage.com”…

Earthquake hysterics

You would think from the “wall to wall” media coverage in the Washington DC metro area of a 5.8 earthquake yesterday in Mineral, Virginia that the world came to an end. I guess it is slow here in DC with…