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Snow covered Thuja hedge.
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Three Hakuba mountains of Hakuba-yari, Shakushi, and Shirouma or Hakuba across the shrub of Kurobe (Japanese thuja, thuja standishii), an evergreen coniferous species in the cypress family. It is usually a tall tree but is dwarfed here due to a poor soil condition.
Macro Mondays # Stone Rhyming Zone
This piece of plant is 4 cm long!
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This photo was taken on the Happoone ridge at an altitude of around 2,000 m, which is well below the forest limit of 2,500 m in Kita Alps. However, tall trees do not grow on Happoone due to an odd soil condition combined with a windy climate.
The plant in autumn colour in the lower left is an oak species called Mizunara (Quercus crispula) that is usually a tall tree of more than 20 m. Conifer species beside the oak is Haimatsu (Siberian dwarf pine, Pinus pumila) that is usually a shrub in the alpine zone. Conifer plant behind Haimatsu is Kurobe or Nezuko (Japanese thuja, Thuja standishii), which is also a tall tree on normal soils.
Bamboo grass in the lower right is Chishima-zasa (Sasa krilensis).
Bedgebury National Pinetum at Bedgebury, Kent, in the United Kingdom, is a recreational and conservational arboretum and, with the National Arboretum at Westonbirt, comprises the UK National Arboreta. It was established as the National Conifer Collection in 1925 and is now recognised as the most complete collection of conifers on one site anywhere in the world. The collection has over 10,000 trees growing across 320 acres (1.3 km2), including rare, endangered and historically important specimens. Bedgebury National Pinetum conducts conservation work and is home to some 56 vulnerable or critically endangered species and houses five NCCPG National Plant Collections.
Bedgebury is first mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon charter in AD 841, the name deriving from the Old English bycgan, meaning "buy", and the Kentish vecge, meaning "to bend or turn", possibly in reference to a stream.
John de Bedgebury is listed as the earliest resident of Bedgebury, in the time of Edward II. In the 15th century Agnes de Bedgebury, sister and heir of John (died 1424) married John Colepeper, whose Colepeper heirs, financed by mining clay-ironstone on the estate, were resident until at the time of the restoration of Charles II, and who created an ornamental park on the Bedgebury estate. Elizabeth I visited in August 1573.
The current house was built in 1688 for Sir James Hayes, a little apart from the old house. The estate later passed to the Stephenson family, who retained it until it was left to a Miss Peach, who sold it in 1789 to John Cartier, Governor of Bengal and High Sheriff of Kent, who improved the plantings and the house.
In the 1840s Viscount William Beresford developed the estate by creating the village of Kilndown and three lodges, one of which – Keepers Lodge, now known as Park House – became the centre of the Pinetum. Beresford initiated the pinetum in the 1850s and his successor, his stepson Alexander Beresford Hope, developed Lady Mildred's Drive to enable visitors in carriages to view the trees. The estate was sold in 1899 to Isaac Lewis, who allowed the collection to fall into neglect, and it was purchased by the Crown Estate in 1918 for its marshy land and drier ridges, as well as its streams, lakes and valleys. In 1919, the house was bought by the Church Education Corporation to operate as a school. The school closed in 2006.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the Forestry Commission established the site as The National Pinetum in a joint venture in 1924, as the National Conifer Collection, because air pollution was rendering London unsuitable for growing conifers. A site at the southern end of Bedgebury Park was chosen, centred on Marshall's Lake and a stream-filled valley.
The first plants for the pinetum were raised at Kew Gardens in 1921 and transferred to Bedgebury in 1925 and 1926, alongside Viscount Beresford's existing plantings. Development of the collection was managed by the Kew botanist William Dallimore, a world-renowned expert on conifers.
In 1969 management of the pinetum reverted solely to the Forestry Commission, who extended it in 1977 and created two new lakes. In the Great Storm of 1987 almost a quarter of the trees were brought down. The aim of Bedgebury National Pinetum is "to grow as many species of conifers as the climatic conditions will allow, planted in generic groupings, using geographically associated plantings where possible." (W. Dallimore, 1923)
The pinetum holds 10,000 specimens of conifers and other species that grow in temperate zones, including 7,000 trees, as living gene banks and as a genetic resource for future restoration programmes. It holds 2,300 different species of conifer, specimens of which include the tallest tree in Kent (Abies grandis) and the three tallest Leyland Cypresses in the UK. The plan is for the pinetum to provide a mix of 70% conifers to 30% broadleaves, and to leave 40% of the site open to provide vistas and allow the trees to be appreciated.
Bedgebury National Pinetum is home to six NCCPG National Plant Collections: Yew, Juniper, Thuja, Lawson's Cypress, Leyland Cypress and Cryptomeria japonica. The collection contains 56 species that have been officially declared vulnerable or critically endangered. The scale and quality of Bedgebury National Pinetum's conifer collection have made it an ideal site to take part in the International Conifer Conservation Programme (ICCP), run by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The ICCP aims to promote the conservation of conifers through conservation work, research and education, and work carried out at Bedgebury makes up part of the effort to conserve the genetic diversity of conifers, particularly those from temperate forests.
The Bedgebury Conifer Conservation Project, initiated in 2007, is designed to use redundant forest plots to grow large numbers – up to 500 – of endangered conifers to provide an ex-situ genetic resource. The first plots were planted with Chilean plum yew by Boy Scouts celebrating their centenary in 2007, and future plantings will include samples from Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.
Bedgebury nursery was the first to germinate Vietnamese golden cypress (Xanthocyparis vietnamensis) and chichibu birch (Betula chichibuensis) seeds in cultivation.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedgebury_National_Pinetum and www.forestryengland.uk/bedgebury
The thuja hedge is a place of major interest for the cats as it is always full of birds. Sethi spends a lot of time on the fence provided that the dogs who live in the garden on the other side of the fence aren't around. Of course he wouldn't even remotely think of trying to catch a bird....
We have two thuja trees in the front garden, and Vas'ka sometimes likes to hide there... Happy Caturday!
Op het schitterende Landgoed 'De Eese' gelegen in de kop van Overijssel tussen Steenwijk en het 3-provinciën-punt , bevindt zich een indrukwekkende laan met zeer grote en prima ontwikkelde exemplaren van de Reuzenlevensboom.
Deze bomen kunnen wel zo'n 35 meter hoog worden en hier zijn ze dat ook wel !!
De stamomvang van de grootsten bedraagt enkele meters !!
Een heel bijzonder gezicht !
Thuja Orientalis. Tree of life.
Unfolder sheet to make a symmetrical shape. 4 cm. Total.
Hoja de Tuya de 2 cm., desdoblada.
Male stobili (pollen cones) on white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) tree stems.
Męskie stobila (szyszki) na pędach żywotnika zachodniego (Thuja occidentalis).
Thuja occidentalis, also known as northern white-cedar, eastern white-cedar, or arborvitae, is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to eastern Canada and much of the north-central and northeastern United States. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.
Northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) cones are opening.
Szyszki żywotnika zachodniego (Thuja occidentalis) się otwierają.
Blattspitzen einer Thuja / Macro 1/1 - abstrakt Macroarbeit
Mein persönlicher Montag , die Umsetzung des Themas " ungewöhnliche Muster " . Fotografiert mit meinem Lieblingsobjektiv , dem Nikon 105 f2.8 😊
Happy Monday ! und einen guten Start in die neue ( erste ) Sommer -Woche
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Leaf tips of a Thuja / Macro 1/1 - abstract macro work My personal Monday, the implementation of the topic "unusual pattern". Photographed with my favorite lens, the Nikon 105 f2.8 😊 Happy Monday! and a good start to the new (first) summer week
Yellowish green Kurobe or Nezuko (Japanese thuja, Thuja standishii) is usually a tall tree but it formed a shrub entangled with Haimatsu (Siberian dwarf pine, Pinus pumila) in Happoone. It is unusual.
Being in the same genus as Pacific red cedar (Thuja plicata), Kurobe is one of many "relatives in America" type of sub-alpine plant species in Japan.
Haimatsu is an evergreen pine species found in cool climate regions in Russian Far East and East Asia. Hai-matsu means "creeping pine" as you see.
It is a typical alpine plant although Happone is in the sub-alpine zone below the forest limit of 2,500 m.
The other week we had a big snow chaos in Munich and in no time my small garden changed into a little WinterWonderland. When I looked out of my window, I didn't trust my eyes because all of a sudden I saw ... a PolarBear had made himself comfortable in one of my thujas. So I quickly took this photo as proof that miracles are happening from time to time .... :-))
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
taken Dec 03, 2023 and uploaded for the group
Canon EOS 450D - EF 70-300 mm IS USM
ƒ/5.6
207.0 mm
1/250 Sec
ISO 320
Photographed the cluster of cones and needles of a Eastern White Cedar on Prout's Island on Lake Sesekinika in Grenfell Township in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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Unripe cones of biota (or Chinese thuja; Platycladus orientalis). They don't look nearly as nice when ripe.
Niedojrzałe szyszki bioty wschodniej (Platycladus orientalis). Dojrzałe nie wyglądają tak efektownie.
It is very common opinion that one could find in specialized magazines for photography, that Carl Zeiss planars have an owfull bokeh. Of course, if the only criteria is how smooth and unnoticeable the bokeh is, all fifty mm vintage lenses are quite bad and planar in particular.
I have to agree, that Planars in general (and Ultrons too) may have very distracting and unpleasant bokeh in some situations. However, if used with caution, and in favourable conditions Planar bokeh is very painterly, dreamy and adds some zing to otherwise boring photo. All this, of course, if you taste is more on impressionistic than realistic side
carl Zeiss Planar *T 50mm f1.4 C/Y mount