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December Heat Tricks Flowers Into Putting On Spring Display

Among the confused plants were moss phlox, bottlebrush buckeye, hellebores and witch-hazel. “The buckeye was the biggest surprise,” he said. “I’ve never seen it flower at this time. It very reliably flowers in June.” He added that not all flowering plants were confused. Some, like the Higan cherry and fall-flowering camellias, are blooming within their normal patterns. But for the out-of-season bloomers, the main culprits in their discombobulation are warm soil and air temperatures. This autumn was the warmest on record in the contiguous United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and thanks to El Niño, that trend is unlikely to change in the coming weeks. Warm soil temperature induces a plant to send out shoots, he said. Those shoots send out foliage, or leaves, which the plants use to make their own food through photosynthesis. When the plant has enough energy, it will create more roots, shoots and flowers. “If you’re seeing flowers at this point, then that process has begun,” Mr. Reis said. If the forecast for the rest of December is on the mark, the average temperature for the month will be 51.6 degrees — 14.1 degrees above the normal of 37.5. The current record-holder for such deviations is January 1932, which was 11.5 degrees above normal. Mr. Reis’s advice for gardeners is to keep watering their spring-flowering ericaceous shrubs, like rhododendrons, azaleas, mountain laurels and camellias, until the first frost arrives. He also suggested that gardeners continue maintaining their early bloomers as they would if they had bloomed in the spring. “This extra-warm weather doesn’t by itself kill off healthy plants. So don’t worry too much,” he said. “You may see some reduced flowering in some plants next year, but they should pull through for the following year.” Interactive Feature Submit Your Warm Winter Nature Photos If plants, flowers or trees nearby you are doing something you find unusual this time of year, we’d like to see it. Please share scenes from your natural environment. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/science/touch-of-spring-in-december-on-east-coast-as-flowers-bloom-early.html

Remarks about Justice Scalia cast shadow on Ted Strickland's candidacy: Kevin King, Benjamin Flowers (Opinion)

Cleveland, and spoke fondly of his time in the Buckeye State. What deserves greater discussion is what this comment says about Strickland's fitness to represent Ohio in the United States Senate. That body is tasked with providing "advice and consent" on the President's judicial appointments. What does Strickland's cheering of Scalia's death tell us about whether Ohioans should entrust him with that responsibility? Quite a bit.   Justice Scalia's most enduring legacy will be that he was a man of principle; he went where the law took him. He was, to be sure, a conservative. But he was first and foremost a jurist, whose embrace of "originalism"—the view that laws mean what the public understood them to mean at the time of their enactment—often led to quite non-conservative results. Take, for example, the many opinions in which Justice Scalia voted to protect the rights of criminal defendants. The most important of these is perhaps his opinion for the Court in Crawford v. Washington, which revived the then-dormant Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees criminal defendants the right to cross-examine the witnesses against them. Those of us blessed to have worked for Justice Scalia saw this first-hand. He would routinely scour the briefs, read the relevant statutes, review the precedent, and conclude that the law required him to reach a result he did not like. It is easy to espouse the principle that judges should interpret laws rather than rewrite them. It is far more difficult to implement that principle knowing your decision is unreviewable (as the Supreme Court's are), and your job guaranteed for life (as every federal judge's job is). Yet, Justice Scalia did just that, on a daily basis, for over three decades. And he did it with verve. Justice Scalia made even the densest of legal issues spring to life, captivating law students, lawyers, and laymen alike. In the words of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—a Democratic appointee who often voted differently than Justice Scalia—he was "a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh." No one who would cheer the death of so principled and passionate a public servant deserves to represent this State. We need more men and women like Justice Scalia on our courts and in government. Keeping Ted Strickland out of the Senate is a... http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/remarks_about_justice_scalia_c.html

Local Foods Farm Tour Series begins Tuesday

For more information: check out http://u.osu.edu/osuweeds/files/2014/04/Cressleaf_groundsel_article_-_p-zna9t9… Source: Buckeye Yard and Garden Line The OSU Extension Office Update is compiled by Connie Smith, program assistant and Master Gardener coordinator with the Ohio State University Extension Office in Fairfield County. Read or Share this story: http://ohne.ws/1tdoWqh ... http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/story/news/local/2016/06/09/local-food-farm-tour-series-begins-tuesday/85646202/