Wolak, Arthur
Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded withsmalltrees that compete with big trees for resources. 2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文 Although they began with asmallrestaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. ...
Successful startups are good at balancing immediate business needs with future growth needs. You need a strong vision of where you want to go, or it’s very easy to lose sight of ‘the wood for the trees’. With practice, you’ll build discernment about what matters and what doesn’t,...
It was great to be back volunteering in Pensford Field on a Saturday morning weeding around the base of the fruit trees and anticipating the flowering of the wildflower meadow as well as enjoying a talk by the beekeepers who passed around a comb and wax cells from the hives. At NT Hinton...
. Even the smallest deck can become a perfect small garden with a few thoughtfully placed pots. Choosing the correct container is important because it affects how your plants grow and thrive. The size, material, and how well it drains all matter when creating a healthy home for plant roots....
The garden’s bones were good—a network of gravel pathways, maturing trees like Italian cypress and ‘Natchez’ crape myrtle, and a hefty stand of Japanese banana (Musa basjoo). But Hall-Behrens had lost track of her original idea of creating a contemporary, Pan-Asian-Tropical-style garden...
with a deep and relentless sense of justice for animals. He’d taught me a lot about wildlife, and I turned to him repeatedly for help with plants. I once asked for tree and shrub recommendations and received a list of nine species. Only one, winterberry holly, was native, and he enjoy...
with mature trees and shrubbery, creating more privacy between the yards. The birds chirped and the squirrels were scurrying about. With dirt stained hands, the Gardener steadied the handle and forced the spade deep into the soil with the thickly-soled leather boot. There were ancient roots ...
It is a common conception that gully control means building check dams, planting trees, plugging gullies with brush, or directly applying to a gully some other individual control measure. This way of thinking focuses attention on devices that stop gullies rather than on ways of farming that preve...
Under the huge trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) appearing unexpectedly through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with small amounts of gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one of the bushes. “I think I'm going to dig up all ...