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Ginkgo biloba 'Troll' (Jeddeloh Nursery, Germany) 2020 photo - Common Name: Dwarf Ginkgo, Size at 10 years: 3x3ft., Green Foliage, Insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-10, In Garden Bed D0,08 for 158 DAYS (Duval). Planted in 2019.
Buchholz & Buchholz Nursery: A deciduous dwarf, arguably the slowest and most compact of all ginkgo dwarf forms growing only about 1" per year. Troll is a witches'-broom found in Norway but introduced by Jeddeloh Nursery in Germany around 15 years ago. Leaves are typically fan shaped and representative of the species except for being about half the size. Light gray to brown stems are distinctly stubby and thickened. A male form meaning no smelly fruit. Good for Bonsai or rock gardens.
Missouri Botanical Garden: ‘Troll’ is a dwarf shrubby cultivar that matures over time to only 3' tall and as wide. It typically grows in a bushy mound, although it can be trained to grow as a small pyramidal tree. As with species plants, the fan-shaped leaves (biloba means two-lobed) are rich green to blue green during the growing season, but change to bright yellow in fall.
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DNA model...One of these days, I'll get my hands on a crapton of molymod, and make myself something really purty.
The Dutch writer Armando once coined the phrase "guilty landscape" ("schuldig landschap"). The group of tourists on this rather insignificant piece of grassland/parking lot, surrounded by equally insignificant apartment blocks, are exactly in such a landscape. Buried under their feet is all what remains of the so called '“Führerbunker” where Hitler spend the last months of World War II. When he put a bullet into his brain on April 30 1945, the sounds of the guns of the rapidly advancing Soviet army were already overwhelming, signalling the end of his most evil of all empires.
Subsequent authorities, both from the German Democratic Republic as from reunited Germany, have always felt uneasy about the bunker, fearing it might become something of a shrine for Neo-Nazis. It was blasted two times but it was not completely demolished. When the apartment blocks were built, more was destroyed and the rest was buried underground. It laid there unmarked until finally in June 2006 during the World Cup Football tournament a plaque was erected with historical information.
My first attempt at capturing stars.
It's find of incredible to lay back and look up at the sky and realize just how small and insignificant we really are. We are nothing. It's a mind boggling thought that I can't linger on or I'll go crazy.
Today, I took the day off of work and skipped my classes (I know it's just the second week, and I'm not going to make a habit of it, I promise), and went to the zoo. I've been so incredibly stressed lately, and I needed a day like today. A day where I could keep my camera by my side at all times and photograph freely. Now to catch up on homework and sleep. Goodnight.
Desert glass from Libya. Formed when a meteorite struck the desert sand, throwing molten glass up in the air, which cooled and solidified on the way back down. There's about 30 grams or so here.
A small insignificant creek but 1100 years ago the site of a battle that sealed the fate of England. 894 Battle of Benfleet which took place between the Danes and the English during the reign of King Alfred, who was fighting Haesten (Hasten, Hastein). The Dane had previously built a fortified camp in the area, perhaps as early as 885 (416944). In this year King Alfred turned westwards with the bulk of his army to deal with the Danish threat towards Exeter, while some men, together with reinforcements from London, marched on Benfleet. They took Haesten's camp by surprise, for Haesten himself was out on a raid, stormed the fortress, and destroyed some of the Danish fleet, breaking up some, burning others, and capturing and taking yet more to London.
When the railway station of Benfleet was being built in the latter half of the 19th century burnt timbers were found in the silt said to be from Viking long ships.
An insignificant photo, but it was the last I took for the trip. On the way back to camp, I slipped off a log while trying to cross over the fast moving Ninemile Creek. Unfortunately, my camera and GPS took a dive with me. The GPS was fine after drying out but the camera was out of commission.
Surprisingly, the camera started working again a week later.
We are insignificant
Christchurch Park
subject: The power of nature
28.09.19
Competition Photographs submitted by Patrisiya Banova, Athena Hall. Ipswich University.
Double exposure experiment. 35mm roll shot over various images, then re-wound and shot again depicting cards from Brian Eno and Peter Schmitt's Oblique Strategies creative toolkit. Friends randomly chose cards from the set.
Looking rather insignificant, 158727 heads south at Bowland Junction, at the end of the double track section through Stow, on the 0855 Edinburgh - Tweedbank on 8 June 2018.
Those clouds look so fluffy and insignificant until you see how large they are in comparison to an approaching airplane. Likewise, those clouds that look so simple in form support the water cycle that allows us to live, dwarfing the most significant of the inventions of mankind . . . including airplanes.
See other shots in my "monochrome" collection here: www.flickr.com/photos/cherylmolin/albums/72157710993266901
The River Thame may look rather dull and insignificant, and barely deserving the epithet 'River', but it has played an important role in the history of the area, indeed England. It was here, in 634, that the Saxon King Cynegils of Wessex was baptised and converted to Christianity.
The area around Dorchester, which is situated on a gravel terrace at the confluence of the River Thames and River Thame some eight miles south of Oxford, has been densely and almost continuously occupied since the Neolithic period. The angle formed by the two rivers made it a naturally defendable site. A Neolithic/ Bronze Age ceremonial complex lay north of the present village, while south of the Thames is the Iron Age hillfort of Wittenham Clumps. The land enclosed by the Dyke Hills earthworks was occupied in the late Iron Age and seems to have been the precursor of the Roman town. This probably originated as a fort, but by the late 1st or 2nd century settlement had stretched beyond the area of the later defences towards Dyke Hills.
The town, situated on the main Alchester to Silchester road, quickly grew into an important administrative and trading centre, and the first earthen ramparts were constructed c. 175 A.D. The bank was extended and a stone wall built in the later 3rd century, and bastions were probably added in the mid 4th century.
The present Dorchester Abbey was begun in the 12th century, but stands on, or close to the site of the humble Saxon cathedral. In 634 Pope Honorius I sent a bishop called Birinus to convert the Saxons of the Thames Valley to Christianity. King Cynegils of Wessex was baptised and gave Dorchester to Birinus as the seat of a new Diocese of Dorchester.
Children's day z approaching, fa some its insignificant, but for me it reminds me - We have so much to learn from children.
As we grow up, we lose our innocence, we kinda get caught in feelings of jealousy and also selfishness. We lose the pleasure in small joys' that life offers. We forget how to live life today and worry only about The Tomorrows.
I want to be the child again, where I can run barefoot and not bother about the brand of shoes that I have to wear.
:)
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Ginkgo biloba (prehistoric tree) Photo: F.D.Richards, SE Michigan, 3/2021 - Ginkgo Maidenhair tree, GINK-oh by-LOE-buh, Size at 10 years: 60x50’, Fan shaped leaves, insignificant flower, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, In Garden Bed U3 for 23.9 YEARS (-). Planted in 1997.
Missouri Botanical Garden: Ginkgo biloba is a large, deciduous tree that matures to 100' tall and is considered to be a living fossil. It is the only surviving member of a group of ancient plants believed to have inhabited the earth up to 150 million years ago. It features distinctive two-lobed, somewhat leathery, fan-shaped, rich green leaves with diverging (almost parallel) veins. Leaves turn bright yellow in fall. Ginkgo trees are commonly called maidenhair trees in reference to the resemblance of their fan-shaped leaves to maidenhair fern leaflets (pinnae). Ginkgos are dioecious (separate male and female trees). Nurseries typically sell only male trees (fruitless), because female trees produce seeds encased in fleshy, fruit-like coverings which, at maturity in autumn, are messy and emit a noxious, foul odor upon falling to the ground and splitting open.
Have one on the NE fenceline and another near the birdhouse garden in front. Makes you think. Leaves are used to make “extracts” that are used as medicine. Oldest living tree species. Can live as long as 1,000 years and grow to a height of 120 feet.
Additional photos of this plant from 2015, 16, 17, 20, 21:
“If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger." -- Vincent Van Gogh