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You are right. There needs to be noise from the employees. https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/employee-rights

And you would have to go through the union safety guidelines to create your cells. You wouldn't be an operator without years of apprenticeship.

Unions create safety committees that the employers have to follow that go beyond oshas requirments.

Good time to form a union. Don't settle for a no walkout clause either.

You can check it out beside the arbor at Charlie's Alternators. Someone has been making regular raids on specific plants at those planting beds and the idiot stole the pods when they first formed. They are worthless till they ripen and will not do so off of the bush. If you see the pods developing then just tie a piece of fine netting around it so the seeds don't escape till you collect them. Be sure they are fully ripe and either sow them in the late fall, winter germinate them, or start them indoors in the spring. We do have seed stored for next year and will probably have plants at the spring seedling Bazaar. You have to store the seed in the refrigerator in a brown paper bag. Collection of seeds: http://getbusygardening.com/collect-butterfly-weed-seeds-garden/ http://www.everwilde.com/store/Asclepias-tuberosa-WildFlower-Seed.html Propagation of seeds: http://monarchbutterflygarden.net/milkweed-plant-seed-resources/asclepias-tuberosa-butterfly-weed/

eThere are a number of different kinds of butterfly weed. The native one Asclepias tuberosa is the one you see on disturbed ground around here. For some reason it grows on old strip jobs. It is a member of the milkweed family and when it blooms like right now it is covered in butterflies. It has a long taproot and is supposedly hard to transplant but we do it regularly with few problems. The yellow one that someone gave me didn't survive so I'm guessing that it isn't quite as vigourous as the orange one. I've also grown the very pretty bicolored on but it isn't hardy around here. It likes full sun but will grow in semi-shade but may not flower. It doesn't need much in the way of water but prefers well drained soil. I think the one I had in the front of the house succumbed to too much water when the drainage from the roof gutters got changed. It produces seed pods with the fluffy seeds like milkweed. Sometimes it reseeds if it is happy but I've never had it happen. A friend does. The seeds need special treatment usually before they will germinate. No bugs, no diseases (at least the ones I have) and the deer don't eat it. That is about all I know except that if the thing gets really big it is spectacular.

I was out in the yard today and the ironweed (Vernonia) was in full bloom. Mine is a species that gets to be about 7 ft. tall but V. glauca is shorter. I've just never seen that one grow wild around here. The flowers are very similar to your picture. It didn't occur to me at the time because the knapweed was in bloom and I don't think the ironweed was. It is hard to tell the difference from a picture! Ironweed is a more upright plant and the individual stems all come up from the bottom. Ironweed is a very desirable plant. I've got three of them that may or may not all be of the same species. I know one of them was mislabeled as it grew way too tall for what it was supposed to be. Here is ironweed.