Biarums and Catalog Update
I can tell everyone is excited about the new Erythronium introductions from Diana! I must let you know that the new selections are available in very limited quantities, as are some of the usual specialties in the illahe catalog this year. So when the catalog does come out and the website gets updated be sure to get that order in quickly. I’ll be closing the website down temporarily for maintenance next week to get the store updated and sending out another notice when the catalog will go live. Unfortunately, without taking some graduate level course in webcoding, the site has limited features for categorizing things. I’ll hopefully be able to fix that eventually but that might have to wait until winter. Some of the big producers with this “hottest summer on earth”, have been the Mediterranean Biarums check out of a few of them that will be on the summer sale list:
Speaking of the hottest summer on earth, I remember quoting someone a few years ago saying “This is the hottest summer on earth, and the coolest one of the rest of your life”, and that was a few years ago! I was recommended a book by a friend recently called “The heat will kill you first, Life and Death on a Scorched Earth” I haven’t read it yet but mean to. If it’s anything like the books I’ve read on the global pollution of water and its loss as a resource or the ruination of topsoil across the globe, it’s not going to be pretty. I also recently overheard a conversation about how the oil industry created the concepts of recycling plastics as a feel good and coined the term “carbon footprint” to spread the guilt and responsibility to the common folk who really don’t have a choice in what they consume or “burn” because of the fixed nature of corporate capitalist profiteering and unequal economic advantage. This coupled with the discussion on how Elon Musk is applying for the rights (as if someone other than the aliens own space) to mine asteroids of precious metals because he couldn’t get enough out of the earth makes me think humanity is really doomed at this point, and we should all just enjoy the last flame up while taking extra good notes and sharing them with others on what survives the ever increasing heat in our gardens. Based on my experience with drought tolerant plants, the Biarums are going to be among the last geophytes standing as the warming continues.
Temps supposed to hit the 100’s for a few days straight next week! The town crier chimes his bell and signs off for now.
Stay tuned for the next catalog update!
Mark