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| KDB 2017 Bulb Blitz submission deadline is this Sunday, January 15. Just fill out the easy form online! http://keepdurhambeautiful.org/our-events/bulb-blitz/ |
The Durham Council of Garden Clubs was founded in 1929 in federation with the National Garden Club and The Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc. The Council served more than eight decades as the umbrella group for garden clubs and junior garden clubs in Durham, NC. Today, Durham Garden Clubs continue the same mission of philanthropic projects of preservation, conservation, education and beautification under District 9 of the Garden Clubs of NC.
Monday, January 9, 2017
Keep Durham Beautiful 2017 Bulb Blitz Deadline: Jan 15.
2017 SAR of the National Garden Club Meeting: March 26-28
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| Registraton link: http://www.gardenclubofnc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SAR-2017-Regist-9-16.doc. Registration on time by February 17, 201 |
2017 Philadelphia Flower Show: March 11-19
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| Coordinate with The Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc for available transportation from Raleigh, NC. |
Sunday, January 1, 2017
BOOKS: The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature
Author: Richard Fortey
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf (December 6, 2016)
ISBN-10: 1101875755
ISBN-13: 978-1101875759
From Amazon...
A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait of what he found there.
With one chapter for each month, we move through the seasons: tree felling in January, moth hunting in June, finding golden mushrooms in September. Fortey, along with the occasional expert friend, investigates the forest top to bottom, discovering a new species and explaining the myriad connections that tie us to nature and nature to itself. His textured, evocative prose and gentle humor illuminate the epic story of a small forest. But he doesn't stop at mere observation. The Wood for the Trees uses the forest as a springboard back through time, full of rich and unexpected tales of the people, plants, and animals that once called the land home. With Fortey's help, we come to see a universe in miniature.
Richard Fortey was a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. He was Collier Professor in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in 2002. In 2003, he won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science from Rockefeller University. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1997 and was elected as a Fellow in the Royal Academy of Literature in 2009.
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