I often take a pair of pruners on my walks around town in case there is a stray branch impeding the way, but I may need to start lugging around a machete (yes, I have one). Jokes aside, I wish homeowners would show a bit of respect to the low-vision residents in the neighborhood who have to navigate these obstacles. #swarthmore #walking #sidewalks #plants #walkability #pruning #hedges #yardwork #streets #traffic #pedestrian
"Sacred Grove" - Zelda Reorchestrated 
“The loss of the liberal class creates a power vacuum filled by speculators, war profiteers, gangsters, and killers, often led by charismatic #demagogues. It opens the door to totalitarian movements that rise to prominence by ridiculing and taunting the liberal class and the values it claims to champion. The promises of these #totalitarian movements are fantastic and unrealistic, but their critiques of the liberal class are grounded in truth.”
Chris #Hedges, “Death of the Liberal Class” 2010.
Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England’s ancient #hedges - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/17/england-ancient-hedges-wildlife "Up and down the country, volunteers are coming together to plant more of these nature-rich reserves" great to see #rewilding
Map obtained by aggregating the linear hedges recorded by the national bocage surveillance system into hexagonal grids of 2165 hectares to characterize hedges in France #hedges
How #Fascism Came - Read by Eunice Wong
America’s #democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and #billionaires
Now we pay the price.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-fascism-came-read-by-eunice-wong
Chris #Hedges
What to do if bullying? Try consistent boundaries
1. do not writhe or waver. (Movement attracts the bully)
2. do not attempt to appease. (Any offer is interpreted as weakness and obtains thrust)
3. flee to a safe position that you could hold with support
4. then stand still. Set limits on how others treat you. Affirm boundaries (The bully will redirect attacks eventually)
5. connect: turn to a trusted person, reach out only to someone you feel well about
6. offer backing, foster, become accomplice, enjoy
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I politely suggest you’ll have to look beyond Corporate media folks like Maddow ‘cos they aren’t gonna front up with commentators like Chris #Hedges to tell y’all that the #Empire is collapsing & #Trump is doing his best to keep it going by teaming up with his buddy #Putin & ditching #NATO & threatening the world with #tariffs and #sanctions and #permanent #war ….
VIDEO: “Marc Lamont Hill sits down with Chris #Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist [..], to break down America’s looming future under a toxic mix of corporate greed, religious extremism, and fascist politics. [..] The explosive talk covers the dangerous rise of #Christian #nationalism, the #genocide in #Gaza, and why the left is too weak to stop the chaos ahead. You won't hear this anywhere else”
via Al Jazeera on YouTube (36 mins)
Had the tall #hedges cut yesterday. All looks very neat. The garden assumes an almost #formal appearance. Quite amusing!
We may think of hedges, such as this, as a bit uninspiring but they are heavens for the wildlife. They offer space for #shelter and #nesting. It is important to cut them before the birds start to build nests.
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Allotments looking pretty good post-storm, in the winter sun. No damage to poly tunnel or anything else - the hedges not fences golden rule triumphs again! #allotment #allotmentgarden #gardening #hedges
How to resist radical evil / Chris Hedges
Lost Nature – housing developers fail to deliver their ecological commitments.
A survey of new #HousingDevelopments reveals that developers are installing just half of the ecological features that they should be.
A Wild Justice report, written by researchers at the University of Sheffield, has revealed that #HousingDevelopers are not keeping legally-binding promises to help wildlife on housing developments.
A survey of nearly 6,000 #house across 42 developments found that only half of the promises to mitigate harm to #nature had been kept. Many ecological enhancements had simply not materialised, with 83% of Hedgehog highways, 100% of bug boxes, and 75% of both bat and bird boxes found to be missing from new developments.
The delivery of plant life across sites also painted a depressing picture: 39% of the #trees detailed on planting plans were missing or dead, and nearly half of the native #hedges that were supposed to be laid did not exist.
See below for full and summary reports:
Shrubs and Hedges by Eva Monheim, 2020
A practical, ordinary person's guide to choosing, planting, and caring for the world's most popular plants, Shrubs & Hedges delivers all the know-how you'll need to grow beautiful, healthy shrubs.
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#books
#nonfiction
#gardening
#plants
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#hedges
These are rather fine. They are galls (rather like a directed cancer of plant tissue) induced by eriophyid mites on a hawthorn leaf. They act as nurseries for developing mites.
There is an extensive literature on chemical applications to address the 'problem' but that says more about human pathology than plant pathology...
The principle of "stick them in the ground and they will grow" worked well with the dormant willow twigs.
