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As I was standing and photographing the king Parrot. I saw my reflection in the bowl and couldn't help myself and took this shot.
I'll admit I have a brown thumb, my house plants always die. I purchased this two years ago because it was supposed to be maintenance free, a desert plant from Africa.
Well nothing is ever easy. Too much water, the leaves turn yellow and fall off. Too little water and the leaves start to turn brown. I had just about given up when, seemingly out of nowhere, a flower appeared! Yay...and there's more on the way!
(Another surprise was that it was supposed to be pink with a white center!)
i love plants--veggies, herbs, flowers, even some weeds. when i dig in the dirt, i feel both empowered and completely in tune with nature.
the watering isn't a chore. i enjoy nurturing my plants--talking, tending, and watering. gardening brings out my sense of wonder and my playfulness. yay for that.
(now you: hobby)
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THE GREAT GREENHOUSE
Rising from the earth
Space like vision of beauty
Treasure of plantlife
By Henrhyde
The Great Glasshouse
This spectacular dome is the largest single span glasshouse in the world, designed by Norman Foster Poised on the Welsh landscape like a giant raindrop, it protects and conserves some of the most endangered plants on the planet.
These plants come from six areas of the world: California, Australia, the Canary Islands, Chile, South Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, and the Great Glasshouse is zoned to reflect this. Each of these geographical areas has regions that enjoy a Mediterranean climate. Hot dry summers, cool moist winters, dazzling sunlight, strong breezes and the occasional ground-clearing fire create perfect conditions for many plants to thrive on the scrubby, rock-strewn landscapes. In fact, it’s so perfect that most of these plants grow nowhere else on Earth. Although these regions cover less than 2% of the Earth’s surface, they contain more than 20% of all known flowering plant species, and the plant diversity are considered second only in importance to tropical habitats. Due to human activity, these habitats are now threatened as the rainforests, and our Great Glasshouse is dedicated to conserving their endangered plants.
At first glance, it is not obvious that the plants come from six different places in the world. This is because they share many qualities, such as small leathery evergreen leaves and dense shrubby forms . As you explore, you will find yourself travelling across continents and countries within a few steps. The imaginative flowing landscape on which these plants thrive, covers 3,500 square metres. Its rocky terraces, sandstone cliffs and gravelled scree slopes, are contoured to reflect the natural environment and to create a wide range of habitats. Balancing light and shade and varying moisture levels to suit the needs of different plants.
A magical visit—not to be missed.
Part of the glorious BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES
'Kriegslok' 2-10-0, 33-504, makes its way to Sikulje yard with a view of the coking plant at Lukavac in the background.
Plant Water Management - nom de code : PWM. C’est une nouvelle façon d’utiliser l'hydroponie pour faire pousser des plantes dans l’espace, avec le très pédagogue Marc et moi-même – qui apparemment manquais de sommeil [emoji blague]. Cette technique n’utilise pas de terre ; il faut donc apporter à la plante les sels minéraux, les éléments essentiels à sa croissance et une bonne aération pour que la plante germe et se développe correctement. On utilise pour ça le phénomène de capillarité, qui fonctionne encore mieux en impesanteur que sur Terre. Pour s’en assurer, les chercheurs comparent avec des expériences similaires dans leurs laboratoires. À terme, ces systèmes nous aideront à faire pousser nos aliments pour des voyages spatiaux au long cours.
PWM stands for Plant Water Management. A novel way to use hydroponics to grow plants in space – no earth (lower case 😉) required! As demonstrated here by Mark (who has great pedagogical skills), and me (who was not very awake apparently 😜). Growing plants and food in space is important as fresh food has the most vitamins and is healthiest. We have made great progress growing crops in weightlessness where nothing is easy. How do you get food into the plant roots in an environment where their is no soil, no rain and even if there was it would float all around! Hydroponics is the answer in this experiment where everything a plant needs is "injected" straight to the roots, the red fluids you can see. Researchers compare results with control studies on Earth to prepare for longer voyages farther into our Solar System. www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2021/project-examines-how-to-w...
Credits: ESA/NASA
423F1182 Thomas with PWM
Ai Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 with Panasonic DMC-GX7
February 7th, 2016
Takasago Green Park, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Illustration done for "The Art of Botany" feature for the Digital Arts!
Read more about the creation process and see other artworks here:
www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/illustration/art-of-...
markers and colored pencils on paper
42 x 30 cm
Alpine plant at Kew Gardens.
I've posted a different processing/crop of this or a very similar shot before.
Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, Florida. Mounts Garden is not very "educational" for people like me who are interested but don't know much botany. Very few labels or information otherwise presented so I've posted a lot of unidentified plant pictures from this trip.
Plants from my garden in July and August 2020 good that some things looks nice this year. Blooms in Monochrome
Margaret Josephine Loughman Plant, 1848-1909
Olin Levi Warner
marble, 1874
Olin Levi Warner (1844 – 1896) was noted for the striking bas relief portrait medallions and busts he created in the late 19th century.
Warner was born in Suffield, Connecticut. In 1869 he had saved up enough money to move to Paris, where he studied sculpture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts under François Jouffroy, and worked as an assistant to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
He was one of the founders and a member of the Society of American Artists in 1877, and an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1888.
Recently, I added a shot of a grasslands corral where they tried raising stock out in northeast Colorado. Here is a recent capture from this year that has been rattling around and that I needed to retouch if I can invent ways to do so on Windows -10. Odds? 10 keeps bashing me at every turn.
I traveled out west around Hygiene and onto Crane Hollow Road, a favorite winding back road that drops into the valley where the world's largest cottonwood (whoopy-de-doo) recently died and found a recently plowed field atop the bluff that's ready to plant irrigated corn for alcohol I suppose. As if we needed more chemical fuel to burn as CO2. At least Trump is hedging his environmental beliefs to the climate conference. He makes up for it by lying about everything else.
Both Longmont and Hygiene had early river fords for travelers. Longmont was more convenient and the Hygiene ford was originally at a settlement named Pella. The rebuilt BoCo park is named Pella Crossing. This pictured land is just west on the southern bank of the river but is still watered by irrigation ditches sourced from well west on the St. Vrain near Lyons.
Today, Colorado is again locked into a new growth spurt to the dismay of sensibilities of many after legalizing the sale of dope. How many of the newcomers are dope heads and are totally ready for our climate and snow? They come to smoke and camp, broken, on the streets. We don't need them even because of Colorado's natural and geographical draws. Perhaps with the final advent of real winter, they'll turn around and go home with hidden dope in their luggage. This February has been special but I never met a February I like very well. March could be a turn around. Tomorrow could bring a turnaround. I gotta go and explore.
I started out with my camera a few times recently but instead ended up trying to bring the new Windows 10 up to speed on my new computer, gaggggg. Why does MS want everything dumbed further down while including extra keystrokes? Until I caught up, I was still using a thumb drive and the sneaker net to post new photos. I pretty much have photo editing on my new machine now.