Green & Growing?
submitted by Fred Schueler
After it was formed by provincial amalgamation of three municipalities, North Grenville burdened itself with the paradoxical motto “Green & Growing,”...
Claude’s Gardening and Landscaping Forum
Dear Claude, When is the best time to cut back hydrangeas (Annabelle), now or in spring? Or do you just cut back the old...
Claude’s Gardening and Landscaping Forum
By Claude Smith
Dear Claude, My Pencil Cactus seems, since I brought it in, to be dropping branches. Should I be concerned? From Cactus Mom.
This...
Claude’s Gardening and Landscaping Forum
Coming next month to the North Grenville Times, readers who have questions related to gardening and landscaping will have the opportunity to get advice...
Burn Henry Ford in Effigy Night
submitted by Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History
Calendar-bound traditions usually have a macabre holiday on a fixed date in the fall, often enlivened with...
South Mountain Fair and Biodiversity
by Philip Fry
The other day, my daughter Rachel brought me to the pigeon display at the South Mountain Fair as a special birthday present....
Common Local Trees are dying due to global warming
William John Langenberg, M.Sc Env. Biol.,
Former researcher and lecturer at Kemptville College
Climate change seems to have a devastating effect on some common local landscape...
The benefits of planting trees
We are fortunate to live in an area so abundantly filled with fields and forests of green. One only needs to look around to...
Species Range and Habitat Reciprocity
by Philip Fry
A few days ago, Nick Weissflog, a young friend pursuing environmental studies, came to visit me. Nick is currently doing research on...
Natural Succession, part 2
by Philip Fry
Natural succession does not proceed in a straight timeline from a disturbance to a stable climax habitat community, nor does it do...