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Fritillaria imperialis, the crown imperial, imperial fritillary or Kaiser's crown, is a species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae, native to a wide stretch from the Anatolian plateau of Turkey, Iraq and Iran (i.e. Kurdistan) to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India and the Himalayan foothills.[...] The common names and also the epithet "imperialis", literally "of the emperor", refer to the large circle of golden flowers, reminiscent of an emperor's crown.[8]
Fritillaria imperialis grows to about 1 m (3 ft) in height, and bears lance-shaped, glossy leaves at intervals along the stem. It bears a prominent whorl of downward facing [pendulous] flowers at the top of the stem, topped by a 'crown' of small leaves, hence the name. While the wild form is usually orange-red, various colours are found in cultivation, ranging from nearly a true scarlet through oranges to yellow. Wikipedia
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Organic lavender cultivation in Faulkland / Somerset.
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In the Netherlands, flower bulbs are grown on 22,000 ha. These bulbs are produced in different regions. North Holland is by far the most important production area, with the Northern Sand Area and West Friesland. South Holland with its bulb region has been an important place for flower bulbs - especially hyacinths - for centuries, while Flevoland is a fast-growing production area. The weather conditions have an important influence on the production result and therefore also on the number of bulbs that come on the market every year. Rough estimates have shown that approximately 8.5 billion flower bulbs are produced in the Netherlands, with tulips, lily, hyacinth, daffodil, gladiolus, dahlia and crocus as leaders.
As a result of the Coronavirus outbreak, trading companies expect
in the flower bulb sector up to 160 million euros in damage.
In October when the fog was slowly dissipating on the edge of a field in the Volcanic Eifel. A few weeks earlier there were meadows everywhere that were now plowed and sown with winter grain.
Im Oktober bei langsamer Nebelauflösung am Rande eines Feldes in der Vulkaneifel. Einige Wochen vorher waren dort noch überall Wiesen, die nun umgepflügt und mit Wintergetreide eingesät wurden.
Most wild strawberries grow in the mountains of Asia and North America. One species (Chilean wild strawberry) grows on the coast of Chile. Three species grow wild in Europe - including the common wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). It is a common plant in light forests and their outskirts.
As a result of crossing the Chilean and Virginia wild strawberries, an interspecies hybrid - strawberry, which is widely used in cultivation, was created.
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Większość poziomek rośnie w górach Azji oraz w Ameryce Północnej. Jeden gatunek (poziomka chilijska) rośnie na wybrzeżu Chile. W Europie dziko rosną trzy gatunki - w tym poziomka pospolita (Fragaria vesca). Jest pospolitą rośliną w jasnych lasach i ich obrzeżach.
W wyniku skrzyżowania poziomki chilijskiej i wirginijskiej powstał rozpowszechniony w uprawie mieszaniec międzygatunkowy – truskawka.
Rice cultivation is often combined with aquaculture in Mekong Delta. In the typical coastal area, rice is cultivated during the wet season, and shrimps are cultured during the dry season.
In areas where fresh water is available in the dry season, rice is cultivated or freshwater shrimp or fish are cultured.
The pond in the photo is for freshwater aquaculture as rice, which needs freshwater, is planted in the middle.
This photo was taken from a bus going to Rach Gia, the capital of Kien Giang province. It is a jumping-off point to Phu Quoc, a resort island that is craving to be like Phuket (the name sounds similar, anyway).
Clerodendrum bungei, commonly known as rose glory bower, glory flower or Mexican hydrangea (though not a true Hydrangea), is a species of flowering plant in the deadnettle family, Lamiaceae. Native to China, it is commonly grown in gardens as an ornamental shrub. It has escaped from cultivation and is naturalized in the Americas.
Clerodendrum bungei is a deciduous shrub that grows up to 2 m in height. Its leaves are cordate (heart-shaped), 10–20 cm long and not quite as wide, and have coarsely toothed edges. The flowers, which appear in late summer, are coloured rose, crimson, or pink, and arranged in a conspicuous rounded terminal inflorescence known as corymb, which is up to 10 cm in diameter. As in other Clerodendrum species, the calyx is five-lobed. At the centre of each flower there is a slender tube c. 3–4 cm long which terminates in five spreading white lobes. While the flowers are flagrant, crushed leaves have an unpleasant odour.
Clerodendrum bungei was discovered in 1831 by Russian botanist Alexander von Bunge in Beijing during his long scientific expedition in East Asia. Two years later, he described it as C. foetidum on the account of the pungent smell of its leaves. Since that name had already been occupied by another species, German botanist Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel renamed it C. bungei in 1840. The genus name is composed of Greek words meaning "chance" and "tree" while the specific epithet honours Alexander von Bunge.
Bedgebury National Pinetum at Bedgebury, Kent, in the United Kingdom, is a recreational and conservational arboretum and, with the National Arboretum at Westonbirt, comprises the UK National Arboreta. It was established as the National Conifer Collection in 1925 and is now recognised as the most complete collection of conifers on one site anywhere in the world. The collection has over 10,000 trees growing across 320 acres (1.3 km2), including rare, endangered and historically important specimens. Bedgebury National Pinetum conducts conservation work and is home to some 56 vulnerable or critically endangered species and houses five NCCPG National Plant Collections.
Bedgebury is first mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon charter in AD 841, the name deriving from the Old English bycgan, meaning "buy", and the Kentish vecge, meaning "to bend or turn", possibly in reference to a stream.
John de Bedgebury is listed as the earliest resident of Bedgebury, in the time of Edward II. In the 15th century Agnes de Bedgebury, sister and heir of John (died 1424) married John Colepeper, whose Colepeper heirs, financed by mining clay-ironstone on the estate, were resident until at the time of the restoration of Charles II, and who created an ornamental park on the Bedgebury estate. Elizabeth I visited in August 1573.
The current house was built in 1688 for Sir James Hayes, a little apart from the old house. The estate later passed to the Stephenson family, who retained it until it was left to a Miss Peach, who sold it in 1789 to John Cartier, Governor of Bengal and High Sheriff of Kent, who improved the plantings and the house.
In the 1840s Viscount William Beresford developed the estate by creating the village of Kilndown and three lodges, one of which – Keepers Lodge, now known as Park House – became the centre of the Pinetum. Beresford initiated the pinetum in the 1850s and his successor, his stepson Alexander Beresford Hope, developed Lady Mildred's Drive to enable visitors in carriages to view the trees. The estate was sold in 1899 to Isaac Lewis, who allowed the collection to fall into neglect, and it was purchased by the Crown Estate in 1918 for its marshy land and drier ridges, as well as its streams, lakes and valleys. In 1919, the house was bought by the Church Education Corporation to operate as a school. The school closed in 2006.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the Forestry Commission established the site as The National Pinetum in a joint venture in 1924, as the National Conifer Collection, because air pollution was rendering London unsuitable for growing conifers. A site at the southern end of Bedgebury Park was chosen, centred on Marshall's Lake and a stream-filled valley.
The first plants for the pinetum were raised at Kew Gardens in 1921 and transferred to Bedgebury in 1925 and 1926, alongside Viscount Beresford's existing plantings. Development of the collection was managed by the Kew botanist William Dallimore, a world-renowned expert on conifers.
In 1969 management of the pinetum reverted solely to the Forestry Commission, who extended it in 1977 and created two new lakes. In the Great Storm of 1987 almost a quarter of the trees were brought down. The aim of Bedgebury National Pinetum is "to grow as many species of conifers as the climatic conditions will allow, planted in generic groupings, using geographically associated plantings where possible." (W. Dallimore, 1923)
The pinetum holds 10,000 specimens of conifers and other species that grow in temperate zones, including 7,000 trees, as living gene banks and as a genetic resource for future restoration programmes. It holds 2,300 different species of conifer, specimens of which include the tallest tree in Kent (Abies grandis) and the three tallest Leyland Cypresses in the UK. The plan is for the pinetum to provide a mix of 70% conifers to 30% broadleaves, and to leave 40% of the site open to provide vistas and allow the trees to be appreciated.
Bedgebury National Pinetum is home to six NCCPG National Plant Collections: Yew, Juniper, Thuja, Lawson's Cypress, Leyland Cypress and Cryptomeria japonica. The collection contains 56 species that have been officially declared vulnerable or critically endangered. The scale and quality of Bedgebury National Pinetum's conifer collection have made it an ideal site to take part in the International Conifer Conservation Programme (ICCP), run by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The ICCP aims to promote the conservation of conifers through conservation work, research and education, and work carried out at Bedgebury makes up part of the effort to conserve the genetic diversity of conifers, particularly those from temperate forests.
The Bedgebury Conifer Conservation Project, initiated in 2007, is designed to use redundant forest plots to grow large numbers – up to 500 – of endangered conifers to provide an ex-situ genetic resource. The first plots were planted with Chilean plum yew by Boy Scouts celebrating their centenary in 2007, and future plantings will include samples from Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.
Bedgebury nursery was the first to germinate Vietnamese golden cypress (Xanthocyparis vietnamensis) and chichibu birch (Betula chichibuensis) seeds in cultivation.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedgebury_National_Pinetum and www.forestryengland.uk/bedgebury
Rural de Anaga Park, Monte de Las Mercedes, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
The name of this orchid is: Mini Phalaenopsis
Suitable place for cultivation: A half shade place (indirect shade) is recommended, as direct exposure to the sun can cause burns on its leaves. So, the best time is the morning sun.
Watering: once a week; always letting the water drain well, because the excess of it in its roots can help to kill it (rotting). The orchid, in general, resists the lack of water well, more than the excess. For this reason, gravel is placed in its vessels, Styrofoam, to have this easy flow.
Never place dishes or anything that could block the water from flowing out of the pot.
Flowering: from one to three times a year, this will depend on the adaptation to the place where you will stay.
Pruning: it is recommended to cut the stem of the orchid. One tip is to cut above the second little one, so you preserve the plant. This makes all the difference to help it bloom again, as they say that this pruning helps the plant not to send nutrients to the place that is already "dead", thus failing to nourish other healthy parts.
Fertilization: The famous 10-10-10 or 20-20-20 = NPK formula (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium), should be applied biweekly or monthly. The proportion of fertilizer must be as indicated on the label. It is usually 1 teaspoon of coffee for every liter of water.
In the autumn and winter months, fertilization can be suspended.
If you do not want to stay with your orchid in the plastic vase in which it comes, you can easily fix it to tree trunks, wrapping your roots with coconut fiber or moss and fixing with a resistant band.
Coloring: different colors: white, yellow, burgundy, lilac, baby pink, greenish, pink, streaks and orange.
This lake is artificial and be
place on the Valtiberina valley ,share Tuscany .This
lake rises on the Tiber river for to water tobacco cultivation of Valtiberina and Valdichiana.
Seaweed ( kelp ) taken during our road trip to Robe, South Australia.
Seaweeds grow in abundance in the oceans, many of which are edible and safe for human consumption.
They have been documented to contain many of the essential nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and bioactive compounds.
For many years, seaweeds have also been cultivated and utilized directly as food for humans or as feed to produce food for human consumption.
Since seaweeds grow in many climatic conditions globally, their cultivation has minimal impact on the environment.
Seaweeds are increasingly recognized as a sustainable food source with the potential to play a major role in providing food security worldwide.
Although seaweeds are part of the diet in many Asian countries and some European nations, there are some challenges in terms of their incorporation into the general diet in many places globally.
Innovation in food technology and culinology can help make seaweeds desirable organoleptically to increase their consumption.
Abstract from a book..Seaweeds: a sustainable food source.
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Rice cultivation is the main livelihood in Bali. Wayan, a young Balinese man proudly presents the harvest on the road in front of a village temple. Many hands have harvested the rice and now it will be picked up for further processing.
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জুম চাষ (Shifting Cultivation) পাহাড়ি এলাকায় প্রচলিত এক ধরনের কৃষিপদ্ধতি। `জুম চাষ` বিশেষ শব্দে `ঝুম চাষ` নামেও পরিচিত। `ঝুম চাষ` এক ধরনের স্থানান্তরিত কৃষিপদ্ধতি। এটি মূলত: জঙ্গল কেটে পুড়িয়ে চাষ করা হয়, আবার সেই স্থানে জমির উর্বরতা কমে গেলে পূর্বের স্থান হতে কৃষি জমি স্থানান্তরিত করে অন্যত্র আবার কৃষি জমি গড়ে ওঠে। পাহাড়ের গায়ে ঢালু এলাকায় এই চাষ করা হয়। এই পদ্ধতির চাষে বছরের বিভিন্ন সময় বিভিন্ন ফসল উৎপাদন করা সম্ভব হয়। জুম চাষ পার্বত্য অঞ্চলের ক্ষুদ্র-নৃগোষ্ঠীদের জীবন জীবিকার প্রধান অবলম্বন।
Shifting Cultivation is a type of farming practiced in hilly areas. Shifting Cultivation is a type of shifting farming method. It is mainly cultivated by cutting down the forest and burning it, but when the fertility of the land decreases in that place, agricultural land is shifted from the previous place and agricultural land is re-established elsewhere. This is cultivated in sloping areas on hills. Cultivation of this method makes it possible to produce different crops at different times of the year. Shifting Cultivation is the main source of livelihood for the small ethnic groups in the hilly areas.
"ঝুম চাষ" ভারতে পোড়ু, বীরা, পোনম, প্রভৃতি নামেও পরিচিত। চাকমা ও মারমা সমাজে জুম চাষ বেশ জনপ্রিয়।
মূলত কিছু (৩-৫) বছর পাহাড়ের গায়ে, কিছু স্থানে চাষ করে সেই স্থানকে উর্বরতা বৃদ্ধি করার জন্য রেখে দিয়ে, আবার পাহাড়ের অন্য স্থানে গিয়ে জঙ্গল পরিষ্কার করে চাষাবাদ করাই হলো জুম চাষ।
Amaryllis 'Olaf'', Hippeastrum hybridum, flowers in deep red color.
Note: Changes in color tone may occur, determined by the place of cultivation.
Intensive cultivation to feed the rampant human overpopulation has replaced the forest with fields that stretch almost to infinity... Groups of birds are looking for shelter and food... are they looking for a lost oasis ?
This is a landscape in France (Burgundy)....
Sunlight in Dongchuan-Kunming CF003242
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Yet another image from Dongchuan.Kumning.China
A really great location for Sunrise, Sunset and views.
The cultivation in terraces, with its colors are amazing.
I did not expect to be in the midst of this paradise.
I shall return to this location.
sorry for my English.
Ancora un'altra immagine da Dongchuan,Kumning.China
Una localita davvero fantastica per Sunrise, Sunset e panorami.
Le coltivazione a terrazze,con i suoi colori sono incredibili.
Non credevo di trovarmi in mezzo a questo paradiso.
Ritornerò su questa località
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The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip
According to the American Begonia Society (ABS), all types of Begonia rex originate from Indian species, first introduced for cultivation in 1850. Native to forests and valleys, at altitudes between 400 and 1,100 meters, in China, India and Vietnam, it quickly spread around the world due to the striking color of its leaves.
Its hybridization resulted in countless cultivars with a huge variety of hybrids, which makes the begonia rex a very popular plant.
São Bento do Sapucaí, São Paulo, Brazil.
Sempervivum arachnoideum (Crassulaceae) 178 22
Sempervivum arachnoideum is a species of flowering plant in the Crassulaceae family, native to European mountains, the Alps, the Apennines and the Carpathians. Up to 8 cm tall and 30 cm wide, it is a rosette-shaped succulent perennial, prized in cultivation for its ability to colonize warm, dry areas through offshoots.
The specific epithet arachnoideum refers to its hairy central rosettes (long ciliated leaf margins), resembling spider webs.
It flowers in early Summer, with pink flowers rising on the stems.
Der Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, kurz Kirstenbosch, ist ein Botanischer Garten im Stadtteil Newlands von Kapstadt. Er liegt am Osthang des Tafelberges und gilt als einer der schönsten botanischen Gärten der Welt. Er ist mit 528 Hektar der größte von neun Nationalen Botanischen Gärten, die vom South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) betrieben werden.
Am 1. Juli 1913 wurde der Botanische Garten gegründet, sein erster Direktor war Harold Pearson, dessen Grab sich auf dem Gelände befindet.
Der Botanische Garten Kirstenbosch wurde gegründet, um die einzigartige Artenvielfalt der Kapregion zu erhalten. Dieser Grundsatz wird auch heute noch beibehalten, indem nur heimische Pflanzen gezeigt werden. So finden sich Beete speziell für die südafrikanischen Silberbaumgewächse (Proteaceae), die Heidekräuter (Erica), Palmfarne (Cycadeae) und die Restionaceae.
Kirstenbosch is an important botanical garden nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town. The garden is one of 10 National Botanical Gardens covering five of South Africa's six different biomes and administered by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Prior to 1 September 2004, the institute was known as the National Botanical Institute.
Kirstenbosch places a strong emphasis on the cultivation of indigenous plants. When Kirstenbosch was founded in 1913 to preserve the flora native to the South Africa’s territory, it was the first botanical garden in the world with this ethos, at a time when invasive species were not considered an ecological and environmental problem.
Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia. Described by Étienne Pierre Ventenat in 1803, it was known as Helichrysum bracteatum for many years before being transferred to a new genus Xerochrysum in 1990. It grows as a woody or herbaceous perennial or annual shrub up to a metre tall with green or grey leafy foliage. Golden yellow or white flower heads are produced from spring to autumn; their distinctive feature is the papery bracts that resemble petals. The species is widespread, growing in a variety of habitats across the country, from rainforest margins to deserts and subalpine areas. The golden everlasting serves as food for various larvae of lepidopterans (butterflies and moths), and adult butterflies, hoverflies, native bees, small beetles, and grasshoppers visit the flower heads. The golden everlasting has proven very adaptable to cultivation. It was propagated and developed in Germany in the 1850s, and annual cultivars in a host of colour forms from white to bronze to purple flowers became available. Many of these are still sold in mixed seed packs. In Australia, many cultivars are perennial shrubs, which have become popular garden plants. Sturdier, long-stemmed forms are used commercially in the cut flower industry. 26337
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Melanerpes rubricapillus rubricapillus
(Red-crowned woodpecker / Carpintero habado
The red-crowned woodpecker (Melanerpes rubricapillus) is a resident breeding bird from southwestern Costa Rica south to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Tobago.
The male has a red crown patch and nape. The female has a buff crown and duller nape. Immature birds are duller, particularly in the red areas of the head and neck.
This woodpecker occurs in forests and semi-open woodland and cultivation. Red-crowned woodpeckers feed on insects, but will take fruit.
Chisapani is a viewpoint of Himalaya mountains in Sindhupalchok district. It is on a ridge near the border with Kathmandu district. Its northern slope is covered with a large expanse of cultivation terraces. Rice is grown on the lower slope, and corns and vegetables are grown on the upper slope.
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電照栽培 是台灣花農為了讓菊花延遲至春節開花以因應市場需求，而於夜間使用人工照明，來延後菊花開花時間的一種栽培方法。
In order to meet the need of market, light cultivation is used to defer the chrysanthemum blossom until the lunar new year holiday comes in Taiwan.
Meaning & Symbolism of Chrysanthemums
With a history that dates back to 15th century B.C., chrysanthemum mythology is filled with a multitude of stories and symbolism. Named from the Greek prefix "chrys-" meaning golden (its original color) and "-anthemion," meaning flower, years of artful cultivation have produced a full range of colors, from white to purple to red. Daisy-like with a typically yellow center and a decorative pompon, chrysanthemums symbolize optimism and joy. They're the November birth flower, the 13th wedding anniversary flower and the official flower of the city of Chicago. In Japan, there's even a "Festival of Happiness" to celebrate this flower each year.
A symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the orderly unfolding of the chrysanthemum's petals to represent perfection, and Confucius once suggested they be used as an object of meditation. It's said that a single petal of this celebrated flower placed at the bottom of a wine glass will encourage a long and healthy life.
Note: A good Flickr friend, JS Hsu from Taiwan took me to visit such.
A farmer unloads raw salt at salt field yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This photo is taken in the destination of Banshkhali Upazila in the division of Chittagong in the country of Bangladesh.
The salt industry being one of the largest labor intensive cottage industries of Bangladesh absorbs largely around 5 million people directly or indirectly. The total value chain of the salt industry in Bangladesh involves largely two sub-sectoral activities namely-- the refining process which is operated by salt mills and the crude salt production process that involves a significant chunk of marginal farmers of coastal Bangladesh.
Among the farmers, farmers some are cultivating salt on their own lands while the other farmers are cultivating salt after taking the land as lease either directly from owners of the lands or through middle men. Local administration sources said a huge quantity of lands are being used for salt cultivation in Banshkhali this year.
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বাঁশখালীর উপকূল জুড়ে চলছে লবণ উৎপাদন। এখানকার বিভিন্ন ইউনিয়নে ৫০ হাজার লবণচাষি ১৫ হাজার হেক্টর জমিতে লবণ চাষ করছেন। অনেকে জমি মালিকের সঙ্গে চুক্তিতে চাষ করেন। উপজেলার কাথরিয়া, বাহারছড়া, সরল, গন্ডামারা, পুইছড়ি, শেখেরখীল, ছনুয়া ও খানখানাবাদ উপকূলীয় এলাকায় ব্যস্ত সময় পার করছেন তারা।
লবণ চাষিরা জানান, কাঠের রোলার দিয়ে মাঠ সমতল করার পর চারপাশে মাটির আইল দিয়ে ছোট ছোট প্লট তৈরি করা হয়। এরপর ছোট প্লটগুলো রোদে শুকিয়ে কালো বা নীল রঙের পলিথিন বিছিয়ে দেওয়া হয়।
জোয়ার এলে মাঠের মাঝখানে তৈরি করা নালা দিয়ে জমির প্লটে জমানো হয় সাগরের লবণাক্ত পানি। অনেকে ইঞ্জিনচালিত শ্যালো মেশিনও ব্যবহার করেন। এভাবে পানি সংগ্রহ করার পর ৪ থেকে ৫ দিন রোদে রাখা হয়।
কড়া রোদে পানি বাষ্পীভূত হয়ে চলে যায় আর লবণ পড়ে থাকে পলিথিনের ওপর। লবণ চাষ মূলত আবহাওয়ার ওপর নির্ভরশীল। একটু ঝড় বৃষ্টি হলেই উৎপাদন বন্ধ হয়ে যায়। কুয়াশাও লবণের জন্য ক্ষতিকর।
উৎপাদিত লবণ থেকে পানি সরে গেলে ব্যাপারীদের হাতে তুলে দেওয়া হয়। এই লবণ কিনে নিয়ে কারখানায় রিফাইনারি মেশিনের মাধ্যমে পরিশোধন শেষে বস্তা বা প্যাকেট ভর্তি করা হয়। পরে সেই লবণ চলে যায় বিভিন্ন স্থানে।
ENGLISH
Lupinus polyphyllus, the large-leaved lupine, big-leaved lupine, many-leaved lupine, blue-pod lupine, or, primarily in cultivation, garden lupin, is a species of lupine (lupin) native to western North America from southern Alaska and British Columbia east to Quebec, and western Wyoming, and south to Utah and California. It commonly grows along streams and creeks, preferring moist habitats.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant with stout stems growing to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) tall. The leaves are palmately compound with (5-) 9-17 leaflets 3–15 centimetres (1.2–5.9 in) long. The flowers are produced on a tall spike, each flower 1–1.5 centimetres (0.39–0.59 in) long, most commonly blue to purple in wild plants. The flowers are mostly visited by bumblebees. The polyphyllus variety in particular make up a great number of the hybrids which are generally grown as garden lupines, which can vary dramatically in colours. The majority of lupines do not thrive in rich heavy soils, and often only live for a matter of years if grown in such places, because crown contact with manure or rich organic matter encourages rotting.
This lupine may represent a significant threat to the survival of the endangered Karner blue butterfly, due to its ease of hybridization with the Karner's food plant, Lupinus perennis, the sundial lupine.[5][6] Some sources argue that much commercial sundial lupine seed is already questionable for the Karner due to hybridization. Additionally, incompatible lupines continue to be introduced by humans into places where the Karner lives or once lived.
WIKIPEDIA
Die weiße Mohnsorte wird nur sehr selten angebaut. Sie wird zur Herstellung von Opium und Morphin für medizinische Zwecke angebaut. Um den Anbau zu überwachen und seinen Missbrauch außerhalb der Medizin zu verhindern, wird der Anbau von den Behörden geregelt.
Sie wird gelegentlich als Nussersatz verwendet. Der süße, wunderbar nussige Geschmack eignet sich für alle Süßspeisen, aber auch für Backwaren oder zum Verfeinern von Pastasaucen.
(Ich kann Strudel oder Eis mit weißem Mohn empfehlen)
Der weiße Mohn hat wunderschöne Blüten und ist ein so genannter Blindmohn, bei dem die Kapseln geschlossen bleiben.
The white poppy variety is very rarely cultivated. It is cultivated for the production of opium and morphine for medical purposes. In order to monitor cultivation and prevent its abuse outside medicine, cultivation is regulated by the authorities.
It is occasionally used as a nut substitute. The sweet, wonderfully nutty flavour is suitable for all sweet dishes, as well as for use in baked goods or to soften pasta sauces.
(I can recommend strudel or ice cream with white poppy seeds)
The white poppy has beautiful flowers and is a so-called blind poppy, where the capsules remain closed.