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At last, my Ceylon is finished! I loved my muslin of this dress, and I love the real thing even more! I need to adjust the neckline fit, but other than that it turned out great!
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Nororiously difficult to grow in our climate in the Bay Area, CA, if you have the right varieties and proper care, you can grow bananas here!
Ceylon Bambusotter
ceylon pitviper
Craspedocephalus trigonocephalus
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by Plâté & Co. The card has a divided back.
Husband and wife Photographers A. W. A. and Clara Plâté set up a photo studio in Colombo’s Bristol Hotel in 1890. From there they produced their photographs, and had many of these images printed in souvenir books and as postcards.
After opening branches in Nuwara, Eliya, and Kandy, they became the leading supplier of postcards in Ceylon. They produced high quality view-cards of local scenes as monochrome collotypes and tricolour prints.
They also published a series of artist-signed cards under the name Plâté’s “Art” Post Card. More than just scenery, these cards tried to project the exotic flavour of the landscape and the activities within it.
Peradeniya
Peradeniya is a suburb of the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka. Peradeniya takes its name from pera (guava) and deniya (a plain).
Peradeniya is famous for its Royal Botanical Gardens.
Another key attribute is the University of Peradeniya. Its buildings are of mixed colonial and traditional Sri Lankan/South Asian styles, and located amongst the lush vegetation of the hill country. The Department of Agriculture is also located here.
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya
The Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya are about 5.5 km to the west of the centre of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. In 2016, the gardens were visited by 1.2 million locals and 400,000 foreign visitors. They are near the Mahaweli River (the longest river in Sri Lanka).
The gardens are renowned for their collection of orchids. The gardens include more than 4,000 species of plants, including spices, medicinal plants and palm trees.
Attached to the gardens is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka.
The total area of the gardens is 147 acres (0.59 km2), and they are 460 metres above sea level, and with a 200-day annual rainfall.
There are avenues in the River Drive such as Cook's Pine Avenue, Palmyra Palm Avenue, Double Coconut Avenue, Cabbage Palm Avenue, and Royal Palm Avenue.
History of the Gardens
The origins of the Botanic Gardens date back to 1371 when King Wickramabahu III ascended the throne and kept court at Peradeniya.
This was followed by King Kirti Sri and King Rajadhi Rajasinghe. A temple was built on this location by King Wimala Dharma, but it was destroyed by the British when they were given control over the Kingdom of Kandy.
Thereafter, the groundwork for a botanical garden was formed by Alexandar Moon in 1821. He used the garden for coffee and cinnamon plants. The Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya were formally established in 1843, with plants brought from Kew Gardens, Slave Island, Colombo, and the Kalutara Garden in Kalutara.
The Royal Botanic Gardens were made more independent and expanded under George Gardner as superintendent in 1844. On Gardner's death in 1849, George Henry Kendrick Thwaites became superintendent. He served until he resigned in 1879, when he was succeeded by Henry Trimen, who served until 1895.
The garden came under the administration of the Department of Agriculture when it was established in 1912.
The Cannonball Tree
One item with a significant history is the Cannonball Tree planted by King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary in 1901. It is often laden with fruit, which are thought to resemble cannonballs.
Lord Louis Mountbatten
During World War II, the Botanical Gardens were used by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the supreme commander of the allied forces in South East Asia, as the headquarters of the South East Asia Command.
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National butterfly of sri lanka
(Troides darsius)
ශ්රී ලංකා පරිසර සහ ස්වාභාවික සම්පත් අමාත්යංශය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික සමනළයා ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා මහකුරුළු පිය පැපිලියා නම් සමනළ විශේෂය ප්රකාශයට පත්කලා.
මහකුරුළු පිය පැපිලියා – Sri Lanka Birdwing – Troides Darsius ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විශාලතම සමනළ විශේෂය වන අතර, මෙරට බහුලව දක්නට ලැබෙන ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික සමනළ විශේෂයක්.
දර්ශනීය බාහිර රූපකායක් සහිත මෙම සමනළයාගේ ඉදිරි තටු කළු පැහැතිය. කළු පැහැති දාර වලින් යුතු පසුපස තටු රන්වන් කහ පැහැතිය.
කිසියම් රටක් විසින් ජීවී විශේෂ තම ජාතික අනන්යතාවය ලෙස ප්රකාශයට පත් කිරීමේ අරමුණ වන්නේ එම සත්ව විශේෂ සංරක්ෂණය සඳහා වැඩි අවධානයක් ලබා ගැනීමයි.
මෙම සමනළ කාණ්ඩය තර්ජනයට ලක්වූ ගණයට අයත් නොවූවත් සමස්තයක් වශයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික සමනළ විශේෂ මිනිස් ක්රියාකාරකම් නිසා සිදුවන පරිසර වෙනස්කම් හේතුවෙන් තර්ජනයට ලක්වී තිබෙනවා.
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Craspedocephalus trigonocephalus
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The warmth in the color of this wig compliments the dark grey in her eyes. One of my favorite looks on her.
Ceylon is of Kelly sculpt by DreamingDoll
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The pumps that took water from Lake Erie malfunctioned and flooded the whole neighborhood.This put Otto out of business.Now a forest grows under the glass of this huge greenhouse in Ceylon Ohio.