| County horticulture assistant resumes summer office hours
HURLEY -- Lynn Adams, Iron County UW-Extension's summer horticulture and youth assistant, resumed her summer office hours at the Iron County Courthouse beginning Wednesday, April 18. She is available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to noon. Adams has more than 30 years of experience with fruit, vegetable and flower gardening and is a master gardener. She uses her extensive experience as well as the expertise of UW horticulture, entomology and plant pathology specialists to answer questions and solve horticulture problems. Horticulture services available through the Extension Office include information bulletins on a wide variety of horticulture topics, assistance with insect and pest identification and damage control, plant disease identification, soil testing and educational materials in a variety of media.
Risse, Interior gardening guru, dies
Homesteader, Teamster and self-taught commercial greenhouse operator Lee Risse, 78, died at home early Easter morning surrounded by family and friends. Like his wife, Greta, who died in 1998, Risse succumbed to ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. A big, outgoing, hardworking and strong-willed man, Risse was known for cultivating hardy, healthy flowers and vegetables, bedding plants, and creating a rich soil mixture coveted by area gardeners. Right up until his death, Risse was planning and working with family and staff members for the upcoming growing season. "We were always after him to retire," said his oldest daughter, Carolyn Bloom. "He just wouldn't do it. He'd say, 'I am going to keep growing daisies until I am pushing up daisies.'" Born and raised in Wisconsin, Risse first traveled to Fairbanks in 1953 to help his sister Mabel and her husband, Orland Cary, build their home, and fell in love with Alaska.
Eight candidates to attend Orangeburg debate
ORANGEBURG, SC - Plans for the April 26th Democratic presidential debate are being finalized. The debate will be held at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. The state Democratic party says all eight candidates vying for the nomination will be there. That includes two of the lesser known candidates, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich and former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel. Meantime, Orangeburg is finishing up preparations on issues like traffic and security. Then there's SC State, getting ready to host the event. "The campus is getting a face-lift," said an SC State official. "There are a lot of landscaping projects, and we're renovating MLK Center for the debate. I suspect the week of the debate, you'll see a very different campus." Posted by Chantelle Janelle .
Tough plants revealed
The people have spoken! Now that the weather has cooled off and there's been a little rain, we asked gardening show listeners for their top tough Canberra plants. There were a few simple criteria: Plants should not have the potential to escape, particularly if there's bushland nearby, and while a little water is fine, they should thrive on watering regimes that fit with our summer restrictions. Natives and exotics were equally welcome, as were productive plants. The result was a deluge (of plant suggestions, rather than rain) and we've organised the list for your gardening pleasure. The great benefit of this list is that it comes straight from Canberrans themselves - it's not sourced from a text book or made up by a temperate, coastal gardener with no experience in our climate.
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