New Yorkers are like mice….
High Line Phase Two from arbuckle industries on Vimeo.
Arbuckle Industries left a nice comment then pulled their video today; maybe they should actually not allow people to embed a video in the first place?
The Franklinia alatamaha is blooming in Fort Tryon Park.
Today, I typed a “q” instead of a “1” and lost about 3 hours worth of work as FileMaker froze and crashed, brewed compost tea without a recipe, and moved a compost bag that was full of mice. There was also a chair with balloons & roses (wilting) strewn about – someone proposing on the High Line? In 93 degree weather? Bad idea.
Compost tea recipes from Harvard that we kind of followed….
AOL’s Rainbow City is now gone from The Lot, and in its place we have roller skating. At the opening event, I saw Susan Sarandon talking with the President of Uni Qlo. My little diary of star sightings is getting crazy-full.
Some interesting plants: Liatris scariosa var. novoae-angliae; Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’ mixed with Rudbeckia missourienses; people are exfoliating the exfoliating bark of the Acer triflorum.
@Wave Hill using Leafsnap app and identifying oaks I don’t know.
Sunday had 53,030 visitors (High Line record).
Week of June 13-19th: 196,653 people. That’s a lot of people. I was also called a High Line Nazi on Sunday for kicking someone out of a planting bed.
We opened section 2 yesterday at around 1:30 PM. Crowds weren’t too bad today, but it is very strange to have people up there where I’ve been working alone for 2 months.
I attended the graduation ceremony for the Landscape Design program at NYBG this past weekend and received my certificaate. After spending some 300 hours of class time and boatloads of money, all NYBG could manage was a certificate printed on a laser printer with a failing toner cartridge. I received nicer certificates for art projects in elementary school. Way to go, New York Botanical Garden!
One cheesy diploma, please!
We had a BBQ today for the volunteers who helped do the grass cut-back. It made for a strange day; work in the morning and setup in the afternoon. Another gardener and I wandered around the meatpacking district looking for ice (Western Beef didn’t have any); I had a wheel barrow, pruners, soil knife, HL uniform on. No one looked twice at a wheel barrow loaded with bags of ice, once we finally found some.
I’ve also been doing an as-built inventory of woodies in section 2. It kind of takes forever.
Plants: Lathyrus vernus, Cercis canadensis ‘Pauline Lily’, Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wildfire’, Pycanthemum muticum.
There are a few grubs that are eating Molinia, and after looking at raster patterns we’ve identified them as Exomala orientalis (Oriental beetle) – basically, you look at the grub’s butt to determine what it is.
Other than that, I’ve helped teach a group of school kids how to divide and pot plants, buried some irrigation hose, weeded, added bed protection and moved some Molinia.
A few plants I’ve learned: Carex pensylvanica is in bloom right now; Agastache foeniculum, Aster tataricus, Molinia caerulea ‘Transparent’ & M. caerulea ‘Moorhexe’
Sea Goats Garden 