Global light pollution has increased by at least 49 percent over 25 years.” “Light pollution already encompasses about a quarter of the planet, and continues to worsen, increasing by about 6 percent every year with growing urbanization. Shielding outdoor lighting downward will assist in this. Light pollution is another form of pollution Island towns can be much more effective at preventing. 65A “commercial, phosphorus fertilizers,” and widely flouted.Īre Island towns serious about protection of shellfish stocks, water quality, human health, and bays and estuaries from the harmful effects of chemical fertilizers and other forms of hazardous runoff? The discussion about Lake Tashmoo, the anchorage, shellfishing, and water quality brings to mind regulations already in place statewide concerning fertilizers. Ecologically and environmentally, it is a desert or a disaster. This “ideal” has no justification, apart from aesthetics. Why push boulders uphill continually when “right plant, right place” gardening can solve problems? When good designs and interesting plants are available for dry gardening?Ĭonsider what you are doing when the over-perfected landscape and garden is the ideal you seek. Vineyard soil profiles contain more of the sandy, dry, gravelly ones than rich, loamy ones.įurthermore, it appears that heat and drought are in our climate future. Moreover, the principles of rock gardening - gravelly, free-draining soils for beautiful and fascinating plants that dislike moisture around their roots - will serve many Island gardeners well. Take note of names for when bulb catalogs arrive later on. They are hardy and drought-tolerant, diminutive, and cheering, not to mention beautiful in their tiny perfection. There are quite a lot, and that is a good thing. Most of the available and suitable iris species for rock garden or dry garden planting are listed in this article on rock garden irises from the American Iris Society: /Main/InfoGardensRockPlants. Rosemary, which was beginning to behave like a half-hardy shrub in Island gardens, has mostly gone by the wayside after this past winter season.Ī minute rock garden sweetheart, Iris reticulata ‘Harmony,’ survived the end-of-February blast. Some verbena bonariensis made it through others are fully gone. To prolong dusty miller’s life, in its second year it must be kept from blooming its yellow daisy flowers. In beds with soils that are well drained, dusty miller (senecio) appears to be a good survivor, contrasted with previous usage as strictly annuals. Foxgloves that would have rebloomed later in spring, with their masses of basal foliage that hold onto moisture, appear badly damaged, but again, time will tell, and they may come around. The broad-leaved ‘Berggarten’ that we use in several client gardens will most likely rebound, but is showing a lot of dead wood. Gaura, a great plant for xeriscaping that is native to Texas and elsewhere in the Southwest, was not predictably hardy here, originally, but then began to overwinter better and better, as warming trends solidified. ![]() In other gardens it looks dead, and may not have survived. ![]() In a few locations gaura is fine, ruffs of green around the bases beneath the wire-like stems.
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