The Effect of a Mild Winter
For the most part, this winter has been uncharacteristically mild with inadequate precipitation in our area. Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC states, “The Northeast region had their fifth warmest December on record, and January has been warmer than average.” This pattern has seemed to continue into [...]
Just Add Water
Heat stress can be reduced psychologically with a trickling fountain, or cascading waterfall. Even just the sound of water adds a calm coolness to your surroundings. If you would enjoy a water feature in your outdoor space, but don’t have the budget for costly labor and materials, consider a self-contained fountain or pond-less waterfall, which [...]
A Spray of Spring Inside Your Home
Eager for the for the beauty of flowering trees brought by spring’s warm weather? Well, try your hand at forcing blossoms inside your home. March is an ideal time to prune your forsythia, quince, dogwoods, crab apples, flowering cherry, spirea, saucer magnolia, pussy willow, witch hazel and lilacs and force these cuttings to burst into [...]
