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I like Vegonia, for me, Vegonia is easy to grow if only I don't mistake the changing-pot season. But I must be careful
with new boughts, they are sensitive to environmental changes.Still I like them very
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Tulips have often been associated with the Netherlands, a major producer of the bulb like flower. The flower represents passion, belief, and love. Things that everyone could sure use right now in the current pandemic crisis. This shot from my backlog archives was taken at the Gardens by the Bay.
Taken at the Melbourne International Flowers and Garden Show.
Some interesting facts on Tulip.
The Dutch obsession with tulips began with Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius. When he was made director of Leiden University's new Hortus Botanicus (botanical garden) in 1593 he planted some of his own tulip bulbs. As a result, 1594 is considered the official date of tulips first blooming in Holland.
Carolus Clusius was also the first person to identify "broken tulips" which is a viral infection that caused beautiful streaks in the petals. Clusius would go on to create many new color variations of tulips.
Tulips started to become highly prized in Holland in the 1600s as some of Clusius unique tulip variations at Leiden became much sought after.
This led to a period from 1634 to 1637 known as "Tulip mania" when enthusiasm for the new flower started an economic frenzy and one of the world's first 'speculative bubbles'. The value of tulips shot up nearly overnight, they became the most expensive flower in the world, so expensive that they were treated as a form of currency.
At the peak of tulip mania certain bulbs were selling for 10 times more than the annual income of a skilled worker and a valuable tulip bulb could change hands up to ten times in a day. Tulip mania was short-lived though and the whole economy eventually crashed.
Today, the Netherlands is still the world's main producer of commercially sold tulips, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, mostly for export.
Tulip petals are actually able to be eaten, during the Dutch famine of 1944 in WWII people often had to resort to eating sugar beets and tulips.
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A very moody shot due to lockdown mania. I have been fiddling with photos all morning but not very happy with any of them so this is my dark moody shot as a result!!!
Hold me...My broken body and heart demand it from you.
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It's warbler-mania in the yard right now. Orange-crowned and yellow-rumpeds are very numerous. The first Wilson's warbler of the season made several appearances in the yard yesterday and there are more today. This morning I saw the Nashville warbler again and the first Townsend warbler since early spring. McGillivray's and black-throated gray warblers are all in the realm of possibility right now. I never have seen a yellow warbler in the yard but they are common enough at the nearby ponds and it is certainly possible. I'm not sure what is the most warbler species I have seen in the yard in a single day, but this morning's number (five)--while a way short of the theoretical mark--is probably close to a personal best. Here are my dates of first arrival for the Wilson's:
May 2, 2012
May 8, 2013
May 11, 2014
May 4, 2015
May 1, 2016
April 23, 2017
May 2, 2018
April 19, 2020
April 30, 2021
May 2, 2022
April 28, 2023
Wilson's warbler, backyard Olympia.
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Warbler mania continues in southern Ohio... the wether is predicted to improve so any day now we will be reduced to the species nesting around us (yellow, hooded, Kentucky, yellow-throated, yellow-rumped and cerulean).
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