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The last couple of nights have seen extraordinary weather phenomena in The Netherlands. In the north there's been an almost unnatural display of Northern Lights. And down here the day sky seems to be more blue than usual. Certainly as blue as this Two-leaved Squill raising its head toward the blue above.
Hierba en avenida del Mediterráneo.
Suena "In Paradisum" de la Misa de Requiem op. 48, de Gabriel Fauré, con la Orquesta y Coro de RTVE:
Hortus Arcadië is a botanical garden in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
It is part of Park Brakkenstein and laid out between 1969 and 1971.
The diet of our European Ladybird is mostly tiny insects and aphids; I didn't spot any on this hybrid Heath so I assume the insect must have been foraging for nectars, molds or pollen. Anyway, the Heath is particularly attractive. It was originally described in the late nineteenth century when it was first seen in the Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England. It's a hybrid of two other heathers: 'carnea' and 'erigena', whether natural or man-made is unclear.
La falaise de l'Hortus qui fait face à l'arrière du Pic Saint-Loup. The Hortus cliff facing the rear of Pic Saint Loup
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Lieden, Rapenburg, Hortus Botanicus. Hothouse, Tropical plants
'De Hortus' is the oldest botanical garden of the Neherlands-- foudend in 1590 by Carolus Clusius. Website: here.
It's been a while since i posted Hortus pics, the last time was some 13 years ago: here, here and here.
Now something of an exotic pest in Australia, this pretty Pelargonium hails from the coasts of South Africa. And today it grows in the South African greenhouse of our Hortus. It's one of about 270 Pelargonium species. Whether this Common Carder Bee is attracted by flower's rose smell is anyone's guess. Perhaps it's only the flower lines that attract it to delve deeply.
This agave plant resides at De Hortus in Amsterdam. Said to be forty years old, the bloom is also the death of the plant. www.dehortus.nl/?lang=en
Hortus botanical gardens , Martin’s photographs , Amsterdam , North Holland , the Netherlands , June 5. 2023
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Photograph converted into black and white using Flicker 1920 AD filter
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In the mornings the plants in the South-African Glasshouse of the Hortus are watered. Here's a very wet Heather. It was first described in 1785 by a student of Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) in Stockholm, one musician called Jacobus Bernhardus Struve (1767-1826). Struve hailed from a pharmacist family but his heart was especially in music and he became an accomplished composer in particular of comic operas.
There are many heathers and they're extensively studied. As far as I know the last rediscription and naming of this plant is by Edward George Hudson (1938-2015) and Inge Magdalene Oliver, née Nitzsche (1947-2003) in 2005 as Erica unicolor subsp. mutica. One of its notable features are the generally three-flowered clusters. It's an endangered plant and the Hortus is happy to have one in its care!