There’s no taste like home; for Georgia Silvera Seamans, that’s creamy Jamaican breadfruit. I received a small gift of Jamaican breadfruit recently. Until I prepared it, frying slices and serving them with cherry tomatoes, avocado, and scrambled egg for dinner, I hadn’t realized how much I’ve missed breadfruit. You can eat it with breakfast, lunch, […]
Georgia Silvera Seamans takes us on a multigenerational visit to the Macy’s spring Flower Show, an adventure in verticality and exuberance. The Macy’s Flower Show began as a “fragrance festival” at the Union Square Macy’s in San Francisco. That was in 1946. In 1953, the first official Macy’s Flower Show was held at the Herald […]
The Local Ecologist spots a new water filtering tool. It works well to extract E coli? What about radioactivity? Holland is known for its flower industry and its water technology. The country supplies “60% of the world’s flowers.” And “one quarter of Holland is below sea level”; according to the website waterland, “Two thirds of […]
It’s cold season. Georgia Silvera Seamans and baby Robert catch the bug and glean home remedies from grandmother. Fetch the cauldron… My baby’s ear infection went away without his taking antibiotics. Now, we both have colds. He is not being given anything for his cold except liquids and rest. I am gargling my sore throat […]
SoHo presents problems for urban ecologists, but a little goes a little way, and there’s a long way to go. Mercer Street, SoHo (south of Houston) is one of New York City’s cool streets but not because of its shade trees. In fact, there are only three street trees on Mercer. The street’s cool factor […]
Georgia Silvera Seamans and other family members of a lucky bride and groom take on a human flower project the morning of a summer wedding. I had watched my mother make bouquets for my brother’s wedding and even helped to wrap the stems, but I had never constructed a wedding bouquet on my own. This […]
Georgia Silvera Seamans takes us down the primrose path, into a thicket of botanical phrases. Let’s pile on the plant idioms, old chestnuts and new hybrids. Make hay while the sun shines. Well, I don’t have a grass field so I cannot make hay, but I can take advantage of the sunlight and warm weather […]
For flower lovers, there’s a “there there” along San Francisco’s East Bay. With prompting from a pink rose and garden writer, Georgia Silvera Seamans gets a move on, and we tag along. The hybrid pink tea rose has peaked. It has several bloom cycles, each bloom boom happily enjoyed from the kitchen window during breakfast. […]
Local Ecology’s Georgia Silvera Seamans explains why, in choosing a city’s trees, there’s a lot more to consider than power lines. So why isn’t it a choice of Oakland’s city foresters? In urban settings, human tensions arise over the selection of large stature or small stature street trees. The “Right Tree in the Right Place” […]
Georgia Silvera Seamans, of local ecology, tidies up the news garden and brings back floral stories from Afghanistan, New York, and Kenya. Thank you, Georgia! Government agents destroyed an opium poppy crop in Ningarhar, Afghanistan, in April, 2007. Some recommend that the crop be harvested and used to supply needed pain medications for people with […]