This Monday morning was not a good one.  Upon arriving at the Plant Clinic, I heard an annoying beeping sound from our minus 80 freezer.  Coupled with the warm room, it dawned on me that the air conditioning was not functioning.  Checking the logs, I surmised that the ambient temperature in the lab was out of range as of 11:00pm (2300) yesterday night.  To make things even more annoying, it was only our wing of the building (on the first floor) that had our a/c out-of-order, even the… Read More →

Yesterday while reading the Sunday papers, I came across an article on potential herbicide damage in landscape.  I was a little surprised that this news showed up here but I get the problem must have gotten worse over the past  month.   The story goes that a new herbicide, Imprelis™  which is produced by DuPont, may have cause a detrimental damage to conifers, primarily Norway Spruce and White Pine.  This problems has been noted in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and a bunch or other states in the northeast and… Read More →