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Beautifully bright Sun and a decent temperature for Hoverflies and such, but a very chilly wind. In the Hortus this Eristalis sp. was foraging on the Scilla just popped up from Winter's earth.
In 1934 the German botanist Hans Wilhelm Viereck (1903-1946) wrote a short essay in Kakteenkunde on how he became a cactus collector in Mexico. At length he waxes eloquent on the spiny and prickly nature of Mexican plants wherever you tread. Indeed this Hechtia which he collected near Jaumave on March 2, 1930 is a spiny and sharp-edged plant but its small flowers are quite pretty.
It was first described by another German, Hermann August Theodor Harms (1870-1942) in 1935.
Curiously, the internet has very few and not very clear fotos of our Hechtia's spiked flowers, small as they are. I hope this picture will be a small remedy.
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.
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.
This pretty Greenbottle Fly likes the cooler temperatures and damper weather of Autumn. Here a male is foraging on an Aster amellus, the European Michaelmas Daisy.
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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The end of Spring... The exuberance of Tulips in the Hortus has almost entirely faded to dying browns and yellows. But our Lily-flowering Tulipa 'Marilyn' (1976) is still at the height of its colorful power for a few days. Soon flowers and stems will be removed. The foliage will remain because it'll deliver nutrients to the much diminished bulbs that yielded such a show of red and white. If all goes according to plan they'll fatten full of energy. In a few months they'll be dug up and stored until their planting in the Spring and a New Show.
Yes. Drama indeed. So Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809), leader of the over-famous Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Louisiana Purchase, was also an avid plant collector. At Three Forks, Montana, he on July 29, 1805 picked Ribes odoratum - soon under the name of Ribes aureum -, and wondrously that specimen is still today preserved. The other specimens he collected were destroyed by a rising of the Missouri River, and he notes sadly on July 13, 1806: 'all my specimens of plants also lost'. This botany would have been even more tragic if it had been the cause of Lewis's murder or suicide at Grinder's Stand, Tennessee, in 1809.
A few years later in 1811, Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) and John Bradbury (1768-1823), members of the so-called Astoria Expedition along the Missouri River, also collected our Odoratum. I'm too lazy to find out where Nuttall found it, but Bradbury - in whom I'm more interested - collected it on Little Cedar Island, Missouri. A bit of a drama queen - it would seem - he claimed that Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774-1820), in contrast to his middle name I guess, stole his plant (and others) and his description for his own as Ribes aureum in his Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814). Bradbury thereafter refused ever again to write on botany!
Leaving drama and tragedy behind, -The Botanical Register in 1816 - with a sneer to the flowers of the genus as a whole - writes ecstatically: 'With us this pretty shrub has as yet no other value than that which arises from a colour and fragrance of blossom unlooked for in this genus; but in its native place it is highly prized for the excellence of the fruit, which is said to be larger than any of our more common garden sorts.'
Before I forget: 'Wendl.' is for Heinrich Ludolph Wendland (1791-1869), who officially described our Ribes in 1825. In his description he remarks rather sourly that he doesn't know whether Pursh is right in acclaiming Odoratum's fragrance, but that in 'matters of taste there can be no dispute'.
Painswick Rococo Garden, Gloucestershire
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Extending my practice as a mobile photographer into alternative processes: most importantly, Anthotypes (prints made from vegetable dyes)
In the dreary, wintry Hortus, the berries of Butcher's Broom give a bit of Red Cheer. Already in Antiquity its branches were used as brooms to clear off butcher's blocks. Moreover, Abraham Munting (1626-1683) of Groningen writes: 'The tough branches of this shrub are used in Italy to make brooms. Some hang them against salted smoked meat; given their prickly leaves they ward off mice and rats and especially bats'. The plant as a whole - roots and berries - is reported to have medicinal properties that are useful for curing e.g. urinary problems.