Tag: canada

Right now with the freezing rain warning the entire fruit orchard is flooded with water right now, right to where the paperbark maples and pawpaw saplings were planted (former hates wet feet, latter can take floods provided it’s in a far warmer climate). Knowing how the weather goes around here (especially in January/February) it’ll probably freeze solid after the next few days of rain which may give them quite a severe shock. Guess we’re getting a full test of canadian hardiness on these rare expensive trees aren’t we?

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101 reasons Gato considers this area zone 4 and below and not zone 5/6 for so many plants-

Pair of ‘mouse control technicians’ to lose their jobs when Ontario closes tree seed plant

“Pepper and Sammy are paid by the taxpayers of Ontario in room, board and veterinary care. These “mice-control technicians,” as one bureaucrat called them, are the reason there is no rodent problem at the Ontario Tree Seed Plant in Angus, Ont., about 120 kilometres north of Toronto. 

The cats are soon to be fired, however. The government will shutter the plant next September. 

The chorus of critics attacking the decision is not so much about the cats as the future viability of native species of Ontario trees.”

Pair of ‘mouse control technicians’ to lose their jobs when Ontario closes tree seed plant