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Dianthus is a genus of about 300 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native mainly to Europe and Asia, with a few species extending south to north Africa, and one species (D. repens) in arctic North America. Common names include carnation (D. caryophyllus), pink (D. plumarius and related species) and sweet william (D. barbatus). The species are mostly herbaceous perennials, a few are annual or biennial, and some are low subshrubs with woody basal stems. The leaves are opposite, simple, mostly linear and often strongly glaucous grey green to blue green. The flowers have five petals, typically with a frilled or pinked margin, and are (in almost all species) pale to dark pink. Some species, particularly the perennial pinks, are noted for their strong spicy fragrance. 4928
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Lunaria Annua.
This biennial plant comes in white or purple, and, apart from it's sweet-smelling flowers, is popular with flower arrangers for it's coin-shaped silvery translucent seed pods. Honesty is it's common name in the UK. Here it is , in flower at the moment, in my garden.
ISO200 1/300th @ f/4 Focal length equivalent to 300mm in 35mm format.
I found this in a bed of wildflower cultivars. Lots of flowers one would find on the borders of fields and forests in the wild but with different colours and slightly different forms. I suspect this to be a cultivar based on the common poppy (Papaver rhoeas). Said poppy is of course best known species of the type genus of the poppy family, Papaveraceae. The genus Papaver consists of somewhere between 70 and 100 species of frost-tolerant annuals, biennials, and perennials native to temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, Africa and North America. Papavers have four to six petals in red, pink, orange, yellow, or lilac. The common poppy's flower is usually red to orange-red though I have found a few white ones .
Installation art piece, Storm by Katie Pell at the Texas Biennial 2009 in Austin Texas, March 8, 2009. Located in the Mexican American Cultural Center.
Photo Copyright 2009, Steve Hopson.
david atkins dead tree
palmer sculpture biennial 2018, eastern scarp of the mount lofty ranges, south australia
Photos from a visit to the Whitney Biennial 2019, the preeminent survey of American contemporary art and again in the news for a controversy as several artists pull out of the exhibit to protest a museum board member who directs a company that manufactures tear gas.
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Geranium robertianum is a common species of cranesbill native to Europe and parts of Asia, North America, and North Africa.
It grows as a procumbent to erect annual or biennial plant, up to fifty centimeters high, producing small, pink, five-petalled flowers (8–14 mm in diameter from April until the autumn. The leaves are deeply dissected, ternate to palmate, and the stems often reddish; the leaves also turn red at the end of the flowering season.
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The biennial Farnborough Airshow took place in July 2018 and as normal the Hampshire town was flooded with visitors the show.
The weekend public days meant the addition of 16 buses operating the Park & Ride service from the Eelmoor and Rushmoor car parks into the airshow site. Once again the service was provided by buses from the Bluestar and Metrobus fleets.
Dipsacus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Dipsacaceae. The members of this genus are known as teasel or teazel or teazle. The genus includes about 15 species of tall herbaceous biennial plants (rarely short-lived perennial plants) growing to 1–2.5 metres (3.3–8.2 ft) tall. Dipsacus are native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
The genus name is derived from the word for thirst and refers to the cup-like formation made where sessile leaves merge at the stem. Rain water can collect in this receptacle; this may perform the function of preventing sap-sucking insects such as aphids from climbing the stem. A recent experiment has shown that adding dead insects to these cups increases the seedset of teasels (but not their height), implying partial carnivory. The leaf shape is lanceolate, 20–40 centimetres (7.9–15.7 in) long and 3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) broad, with a row of small spines on the underside of the midrib.
Teasels are easily identified with their prickly stem and leaves, and the inflorescence of purple, dark pink or lavender flowers that form a head on the end of the stem(s). The inflorescence is ovoid, 4–10 centimetres (1.6–3.9 in) long and 3–5 centimetres (1.2–2.0 in) broad, with a basal whorl of spiny bracts. The first flowers begin opening in a belt around the middle of the spherical or oval flowerhead, and then open sequentially toward the top and bottom, forming two narrow belts as the flowering progresses. The dried head persists afterwards, with the small (4–6 millimetres (0.16–0.24 in)) seeds maturing in mid autumn.
The seeds are an important winter food resource for some birds, notably the European Goldfinch. Teasels are often grown in gardens and encouraged on some nature reserves to attract them.
Teasel is also considered an invasive species in the United States. It is known to form a monoculture, capable of crowding out all native plant species, and therefore is discouraged and/or eliminated within restored open lands and other conservation areas.
astra parker sisters (detail)
palmer sculpture biennial 2018, eastern scarp of the mount lofty ranges, south australia
The biennial Farnborough Airshow took to the skies today (20/07/2026) for a week of planes, planes, and more planes. But enough of those, I was there to record the shuttle buses which this year is being covered in its entirety by Stagecoach.
Day 1 saw around 30 buses in action with a mix of mainly Stagecoach South Yutongs, ADL E400 MMCs, ADL E400s and a solitary Trident keeping the trade show visitors moving. There were a few buses from the Midlands (11664-8 from Northampton) but the stars of the show were Yutongs 83001-7 plus Guildford's Trident 18504.
Friday looks to be the busiest day as this is when the public can go in. I understand the Friday is already sold out so I'm guessing Stagecoach might need some extra buses that day!!