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Some maple Trees has green leaves, some other has grape red and this one.. has a dazzling bright red! I found this at Hoernli Cemetery. Someone surely rest in peace underneath.
One Taken a few weeks back when there was still a bit of snow about on Dartmoor.
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The tree outside my home with the lovely fall sky. Several textures, Kim Klassen, Raggedy Paper and Wax Fuzion.
SONY Alpha a7 (Alpha 7), New FD20-35mm f/3.5L, 2014/9/1, Kunigami-gun
, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
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Der Botanische Garten Berlin gehört zu den größten der Welt. Rund 22.000 verschiedene Pflanzenarten können entdeckt werden. Die Gewächshäuser bieten auf 6000 qm eine botanische Reise in südliche Gefilde.
The Botanic Garden Berlin is one of the world´s largest gardens. About 22,000 different species of plants are cultivated here. The greenhouse complex consists of 16 houses open to the public and offers the possibility to travel through tropical vegetation.
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Last Sunday I went to Covent Garden to see 'Modern Works on Paper' art fair. On arrival, I discovered that there were no discounts for the unemployed but some friendly lady offered me a free, spare ticket. I met in that fair a wonderful book artist called Christine Tacq. She is producing some bespoke art books, filled with beautiful collages. Books that are more than simple paper artifacts. We chatted a little, as I was interested in the purchase of a book based on Ben Jonson poem. In fact, I will buy this book one day... Christine presented me with a lovely teaser, where I found her artwork inside...
Scientific: Brachychiton populneus
Common: Australian bottle tree, lacebark Kurrajong
Family: Sterculiaceae
Origin: Queensland to New South Wales in Australia
Pronounciation: Brac-ka-CHI-ton po-pul-NAY-us
Hardiness zones
Sunset 12-24
USDA 9-11
Landscape Use: Strong vertical, commercial to large residential, mesic, tropical or alpine character, popular for shade in parks, lawn tree.
Form & Character: Evergreen tree, pendulous, upright and conical when young to more spreading with age
Growth Habit: Vigorously upright to 60 feet, pyramidal when young but spreading with age. The bottle tree trunk is generally smooth and gray (except where heat stressed) and tends to flare at the base. The main scaffold branches are generally thick and extending upwards, sometimes perpendicular.
Foliage/texture: Foliage generally light green and ovate and entire (aspen like) to 3-5 lobed (turkey track), mostly 3 inches long or less; medium texture.
Flowers & fruits: Clusters of bell shaped, yellow-green flowers with yellowish red inside on short, axillary panicles (on a stalk), May and June, hard woody canoe-shaped fruits, messy.
Seasonal color: None
Temperature: Tolerant
Light: Full sun, though hot summer western sun can scald the trunk.
Soil: Bottle trees show foliar interveinal chlorosis in soils with pH above 8.0.
Watering: Irrigate bottle trrees deeply at least twice a month during summer for best results.
Pruning: Elevate canopy base, but avoid western sun exposure on main trunk (sunscald time).
Propagation: Seed; majority of seed lot will germinate with turkey track (3-5 lobed) leaf form and minority will have aspen like foliage (ovate).
Disease and pests: Bottle tree is highly susceptible to Phymatotrichopsis (common name, Texas root rot) in former agricultural soils in the Phoenix area. Local Texas root rot symptoms include abrupt leaf browning and tree death usually sometime during July to October (mostly September after soil temperatures exceed 80oF).
Additional comments: Bottle trees were widely planted in Phoenix during the 1970s and 1980s as a dominant element of mesic and oasis landscape design themes - oh, how times have changed! Bottle tree fruit pods are resistant to decay, pose a litter problem and can injure bare foot wanderers and reel lawn mowers. Young bottle trees are subject to wind throw especially if their roots have been deformed by prior culture in nursery containers. Flame Tree (B. acerifolius) is somewhat taller with red flowers.
The genus Brachychiton contains 31 species of trees and shrub, all native to Australia (30 species) and New Guinea (one species). Many have odd, bulbous trunks for the storage of water during extended periods of dryness such as this Brachychiton rupestris I came across in a landscape streetscape in Toowoomba, Australia.
Vandalism is a problem in dense urban areas because bottle tree has such a smooth trunk.
This is a shot from my back door. Every fall the Red Maple in behind and the younger Norway Maple in front create an interesting color contrast. The Red Maple turns flaming red by the end of September and retains its leaves for 3-4 weeks. The younger Norway Maple, however, remains green until late in the season, late October. It doesn't put on much of a color display either with many of the leaves falling while they are still partially green.
Bauhinia Leaves along the driveway. Due to the hard winter we had - well, "hard" for Houston - no flowers this year but it is returning from the roots. Often called "Pato de Vaca" or "Cow's Foot" because the paired leaves look like a cow's hoof print. July 2018.
Sapindaceae (soapberry family) » Dimocarpus longan Lour.
dy-mo-KAR-pus -- from the Greek dis (twice) and karpos (fruit)
LONG-an -- from a Chinese name for the species, long yan (龙眼 : dragon eyes)
commonly known as: dragon's eyes, eyeball tree, longan • Assamese: আচফল asphol, নাগা লীচী nagalichi • Bengali: আঁশফল ashphol • Garo: samphal bol • Khasi: dieng loba • Konkani: वुंब wumb • Malayalam: പെമ്പുന്ന pempunna, പെമ്പൂവം pempuuvam, പൊരിപുന്ന poripunna • Manipuri: nongganghei • Marathi: ओंब omb, उंब umb • Mizo: thei-fei-mûng • Tamil: செம்பூவம் cem-puvam, காட்டுப்பூவம் kattu-p-puvam, பிரப்பன் pirappan, பூவம் puvam
Native of: s China, India, Sri Lanka, Indo-China, Malesia; cultivated elsewhere
References: eFlora • Wikipedia • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT
The Bartram Bridge spans the county line between Delaware and Chester Counties over Crum Creek and is located at the intersection of Goshen and Boot Roads. It is the last covered bridge remaining in Delaware County, a county which once had 30 covered bridges. The bridge has unique slanted plank portals, the only bridge in Pennsylvania with this unusual design.
Built in 1860 by Ferdinand Wood, who designed the portals to be "Hi and Wide as a Load of Hay," the bridge is 60 foot long by 13 feet wide. The original cost to build the bridge was shared by Delaware and Chester Counties. It is named for Mordecai Bartram.
The bridge closed to traffic in 1941. The bridge was first repaired in the 1960's (at the time by the Marple Newtown Historical Society). After years of disrepair, the bridge was restored in 1995, funded by a combination of donations, grants and fundraising. The bridge is maintained by a commission of volunteers representing both Newtown and Willistown Townships.
Source: The Newtown Square Historical Preservation Society website.
january 2, 2012
in this photo: elisabetta.
the grass was completely soaked and she sat there without any problems. i love her.
A visit to Coughton Court in Warwickshire, on the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend in late May 2018. A National Trust property, it was the home of the Throckmorton family.
Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
The house has a long crenelated façade directly facing the main road, at the centre of which is the Tudor Gatehouse, dating from 1530; this has hexagonal turrets and oriel windows in the English Renaissance style. The gatehouse is the oldest part of the house and is flanked by later wings, in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style, popularised by Horace Walpole.
The Coughton estate has been owned by the Throckmorton family since 1409. The estate was acquired through marriage to the De Spinney family. Coughton was rebuilt by Sir George Throckmorton, the first son of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton Court by Catherine Marrow, daughter of William Marrow of London. The great gatehouse at Coughton was dedicated to King Henry VIII by Throckmorton, a favorite of the King. Throckmorton would become notorious due to his almost fatal involvement in the divorce between King Henry and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Throckmorton favoured the queen and was against the Reformation. Throckmorton spent most of his life rebuilding Coughton. In 1549, when he was planning the windows in the great hall, he asked his son Nicholas to obtain from the heralds the correct tricking (colour abbreviations) of the arms of his ancestors' wives and his own cousin and niece by marriage Queen Catherine Parr. The costly recusancy (refusal to attend Anglican Church services) of Robert Throckmorton and his heirs restricted later rebuilding, so that much of the house still stands largely as he left it.
After Throckmorton's death in 1552, Coughton passed to his eldest son, Robert. Robert Throckmorton and his family were practicing Catholics therefore the house at one time contained a priest hole, a hiding place for priests during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law in England, from the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The Hall also holds a place in English history for its roles in both the Throckmorton Plot of 1583 to murder Queen Elizabeth I of England, and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, although the Throckmorton family were themselves only indirectly implicated in the latter, when some of the Gunpowder conspirators rode directly there after its discovery.
The house has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1946. The family, however, hold a 300-year lease and previously managed the property on behalf of the Trust. In 2007, however, the house reverted to management by the National Trust. The management of the property is renewed every 10 years. The family tenant until recently was Clare McLaren-Throckmorton, known professionally as Clare Tritton QC, until she died on 31 October 2017.
The house, which is open to the public all year round, is set in extensive grounds including a walled formal garden, a river and a lake.
The gatehouse at Coughton was built at the earliest in 1536, as it is built of stones which came from Bordesley Abbey and Evesham Abbey after the Dissolution of the Monasteries Act in 1536. As with other Tudor houses, it was built around a courtyard, with the gatehouse used for deliveries and coaches to travel through to the courtyard. The courtyard was closed on all four sides until 1651, when Parliamentary soldiers burnt the fourth (east) wing, along with many of the Throckmorton's family papers, during the English Civil War.
After the Roman Catholic Relief Act was passed in 1829, the Throckmorton family were able to afford large-scale building works, allowing them to remodel the west front.
The Woodland Walk. Well we only went along the River Arrow, not on the actual woodland walk. The start is near a gated picnic area.
The River Arrow.
footbridge to the picnic area (to the right via the gate).
Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Dalbergia lanceolaria
dal-BERG-ee-uh -- for Nils & Carl Dahlberg, Swedish botanist and officer, respectively
lan-see-oh-LAIR-ee-uh -- meaning, lance-like
commonly known as: bastard rose wood • Assamese: meda-luwa, mouhit • Bengali: chakemdia • Coorgi: ಹಸರುಗೋಣಿ hasarugoni, ಶ್ವೇತ ಬೀಟೆ shweta beete • Gujarati: તણતોશી tantoshi • Hindi: हर्दी hardi, टाकोली takoli • Kannada: ಬಿಳಿ ಬಿಟೆ bili beete • Kolami: piri • Malayalam: കണ്ണന് വാക kannan vaaka, വെള്ളീട്ടി velliitti • Marathi: दोण्डुस dondus. फणशी phanshi • Mundari: birmunga, keadcadlomdaru • Oriya: dodilo • Rajasthani: barbat, passi • Sanskrit: गोरक्ष goraksha • Santal: chapot siris • Tamil: எரிகை erikai, காட்டுப்பச்சிலை kattuppachalai • Telugu: కొండపచారీ kondapachari, తెల్లవిరుగుడు tellavirugudu • Urdu: dandous
Native to: Indian Subcontinent, Indo-China
References: Flowers of India • NPGS / GRIN • eFlora • IndFlora