{"id":3330,"date":"2019-05-07T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oaktownnursery.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2019-05-07T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:31:27","slug":"3330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oaktownnursery.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/07\/3330\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLDFIELDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In search of inspiration this spring I visited a few very special spots for wildflowers. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Luck has been with me and pretty much everywhere I turned a botanical show was just popping off. For me the best medicine to feeling out of sorts has always been to go out into the world away from the busy town and take in what is growing. In an opinion piece by Oliver Sachs in the NYT (published <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">4\/18\/19<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> but written in 2015) Sachs confirms the feeling that many of us share. \u201cAll of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mind, refreshed in body and spirit. The importance of these physiological states on individual and community health is fundamental and wide-ranging.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Seeing great swaths of goldfields, a tiny rich yellow daisy seems to be good medicine. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This sunny member of the aster family<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> blanket<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">s<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> places where the soil is quite thin and the land has been <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">wet<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. As the soil dries the tiny plants put on their out-sized show signaling pollinators to partake of the nectar bar. This great painting technique draws you in to see the strokes. Looking more closely you are rewarded with seeing other <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">nearby <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">plants. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">f you look close <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">perhaps <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">there will be a lighter colored yellow <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">flower<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">say<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> a <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">s<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ma<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ll swath of butter and eggs <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">intermingled<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">t a slightly different elevation or aspect <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">t<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">here <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">may be<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> patch<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">es<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> of owls clover, lupine, tidy tips, red maids \u2013 oh the things you\u2019ll see! <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">T<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">he time of writing is the first day of May and many places have passed their peak. But do not <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">despair, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">there is still plenty to see. As the ground dries and the goldfields go to seed there will be other species to appreciate <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">all they way through to the driest months of the year. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cClearly, nature calls to something very deep in us. Biophilia, the love of nature and living things, is an essential part of the human condition. 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