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It rained and then it poured and then rained some more upon the parched Hortus Botanicus and also on Olympholder's head. A bit of light and we admired a Common Papaver almost succumbing to the rain as Poppies tend to do.
Looking more closely, we espied Marmalade Hoverflies licking up pollen from the just opening anthers.
The Hortus is mostly in shadow now and the Sun barely rises above the roofs of the surrounding houses. Still there are attractions. One of them is this pretty Heath. It used to be called specifically 'herbacea' but most often went by the name 'carnea'. So often, in fact, that the IPNI in 1999 established that specific as the proper one. Old habits are hard to change, and the Hortus still uses 'herbacea'.
Our Heath is frost-resistant. The white ice crystals today make for a pretty picture on the mauve, yellow and purple flowers.
Real Autumn is just about upon us, with its subdued floral colors. Here in the Hortus Botanicus is Autumn Crocus, Crocus sativus.
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:
Today was nice and sunny, but the other day it was wet, rainy and windy! That didn't deter me from the Botanical Garden. And neither was this pretty Marmalade Hoverfly afraid of the wet. It's going for Mullein's pollen...
And look at those beautiful Mullein flower parts!
It is said that Parrotia persica, Persian Ironwood, is critically endangered in the wild. But it is grown and thrives in many botanical gardens. Here it graces the bright blue Winter sky in the Hortus in Amsterdam. It's endemic to the southern reaches of the Caspian Sea where it was found in the late 1820s and soon thereafter described (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/24053373129/in/photoli...).
Hortus Arcadië is a botanical garden in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
It is part of Park Brakkenstein and laid out between 1969 and 1971.
Yes, if you look down on them these pretty spring flowers give the suggestion of white hexagons something like Snowflakes. You can't really see the green or yellow tips of the petals. And indeed they're somtimes called Snowbells. But if you look more carefully and turn the flowers upward you'll see the color-tipped petals and the orange stamens and green pistil. To get this photo, Sammy had to bend his lens low and then angle upward.
Among the flowers of the South Africa Collection, the Hortus boasts a seeded out bed of this wonderfully bright blue African Sunflax: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/35458766322/in/photoli....
Olymp and his master looked for perhaps ten minutes and were rewarded with a view of at least 20 different insects. Here are four of them: two Hoverflies and two Bees. From top left to bottom left: Thick-legged Hoverfly, Syritta pipiens; Masked Bee, Hylaeus sp.; Mining Bee, Andrena sp.; Long Hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta. Two are after pollen, two nectar.
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'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.
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
Well, perhaps... In 1732 great Carolus Linnaeus made visits to Lapland and there collected many plants that he later described. One of these is this Bog Rosemary, a Heather kind with that wonderful scientific designation 'Andromeda'. Why did Linnaeus use that name? The story about her in Greek mythology is complicated but here it will suffice to say that beautiful Andromeda was chained to a rock as a sacrificial offering; her feet were washed by the seas. So also our Rosemary; the flowers rise high above the bog around their hilltop and its roots are wet in the marsh.
These plants are quite lowly and it's hard to see 'inside'. Well, perhaps Linnaeus crouching to examine the roots looked up and saw the opened flowers. Such a view may have been the one in the main photo. The inset shows the flowers when you pass by.
Actually, says Groningen's great horticulturalist Abraham Munting (1626-1683), no-one knows exactly what Windflower's proper season is. But with good care it will grow all year around.
I was happy to see it today in Shaffy's Tuin, just by Amsterdam's railroad tracks to the centre of the country and down south. Olymp was able to shoot our Herba venti though on its high stem it was swaying wildly back and forth.
Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) is said to have introduced this Anemone to western Europe on his return from Vienna when he became the director of Leiden's botanical garden. There's also a rather cute story about one Monsieur Bachelieu who around 1615 procured our flower and was so delighted by it that he jealously guarded it for his own pleasure. A decade or so later his friends discovered the clinging nature of its seeds and plucked them from their mantels after having left Bachelieu's garden. Then they grew their own flowers.
Johannes Commelin (1626-1692), one of the founders of the Amsterdam Hortus, in his great catalogue of its plants, writes about this one from South Africa that in the morning it has no smell, it stinks at noon, and emits an ambrosial odor in the evening. I've never been in the locked-up garden in the evening so have had to forgo testing that statement. In the morning I've indeed smelled nothing; at noon - well, I'm a bit sceptical... perhaps just a whiff of malodour. Commelin calls our plant Valerianella dentata, and come to think of it perhaps the malodour my nose may have picked up was valerianal.
Great Carolus Linnaues renamed Valerianalla for Johan Ernst Hebenstreit (1703-57), a renowned naturalist in his time and a one-time traveler (1731-33) to North Africa with an expedition funded by August I (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony, and several times (!) king of Poland.
We all know that Tulips originate not from Holland but from the far-reaching Ottoman Empire. Much has been written about that provenance, and it's particularly relevant to the history of this Horned Tulip. It was described in Europe already in 1753 by great Carolus Linnaeus, who named it for polymath and naturalist Conrad Gesner (1516-1565). He writes that it comes from Cappadocia and was brought to Europe in 1559. Possibly, I might add, through the efforts of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522-1592), 'Austrian' diplomat to the Ottomans.
A quarter of a century before Linnaeus's description - during the bizarrely luxurious reign of Sultan Ahmed III (1673-1736) between 1703 and 1730 - Ottoman Tulip Craze frilled to a frenzy. That's testified to by a court painter Mehmet, who gives exquisite pictures of some 50 Tulips in his Osmanlı lalesi or Lale mecmuasi of 1725. Many of his flowers boast frills and filaments and quaintness not often seen in Tulips. One of these is this Tulipa acuminata.
I don't know when it was first cultivated in European gardens. But in 1876 Henry Harpur-Crewe (1828-1883), an English theological naturalist, waxes eloquent: "T. acuminata cornuta, with its strange narrow parti-coloured petals, is so quaint and curious that no one who has once grown it likes to be without it".
Here it's a staple of the Amsterdam Botanical Garden.
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
Our flower would seem, I think, to be a Bloody Cranesbill. But it's not marked as anything in the Hortus. Regardless, Helophilus pendulus, that wonderful Marsh-Loving Hoverfly, has found it even if the Hortus is not near any marsh. But there's plenty of water around in the canals of Amsterdam.
Hortus botanical gardens , Martin’s photographs , Amsterdam , North Holland , the Netherlands , June 5. 2023
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