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An afternoon visit to Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens during October 2018 (middle of autumn so leaves out and pumpkins out for Halloween).
Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens are situated adjacent to the west side of Castle Bromwich Hall, a Jacobean Mansion. They are in the old centre of Castle Bromwich, a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull of the English West Midlands area.
Castle Bromwich Hall was built between 1557 and 1585 by Sir Edward Devereux, the first MP for Tamworth. Sir Orlando Bridgeman bought the Hall and Gardens in 1657 for his son, Sir John Bridgeman I. He made changes to both around the year 1700 advised by his cousin, Captain William Winde. The gardens were designed as a formal arrangement of self-contained garden areas. Some of these were ornamental and some working. They were separated by walls, hedges or level-changes at terraces. On the death of Sir John Bridgeman I in 1710 his son, Sir John Bridgeman II, continued to extend the Gardens westwards until they reached their present size of 10 acres (40,000 m2). He also improved the Hall.
The Gardens were developed by further generations of the family, later to become the Earls of Bradford. Lady Ida Bridgeman was the last member of the family to live at the Hall before her death in 1936 and the Gardens were well looked after again under her care. The Hall was then rented out and they fell into decline. A planning application was made in 1983 for the building of housing. Luckily, the planning inspectors employed by West Midlands County Council realized the importance of the Gardens. It was decided that restoration was essential and work started to clear the undergrowth and repair the damage caused by vandals. The Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens Trust was formed to restore and maintain them.
These 10 acres (40,000 m2) walled Baroque gardens are listed grade II* and are the only remaining example in the country of a formal English garden design. They are being restored as near as possible to the period 1680–1740, which was when they were at their best, and contain over 600 species of plants from the time.
The Holly Maze is a mirror image of the one at Hampton Court Palace designed by George London and Henry Wise. The Kitchen and Fruit garden is based on a design by Batty Langley from his book "New Principles of Gardening".
A DVD of the gardens by Great Britain Online is available.
The area outside of the garden walls.
Woodland Walk - short corner area over the leaf covered paths.
pond with algae
Beach users reassured about seasonal algae
Natural Resources Wales is reassuring visitors to some North Wales beaches that bright orange-coloured water is not pollution, but a type of seasonal marine algae.
Officers from Natural Resources Wales have been to test the water at the Penmaenmawr beach and have identified the early signs of an algal bloom.
Reports are also coming in that the orange colour is visible at Llandudno and may also be present on other beaches in North Wales.
The Noctiluca marine algae, also known as Sea Sparkle, is common across the Welsh coastline during this time of year, and is a naturally occuring phenomenon.
The orange colour can be even more pronounced at night as it appears to glow in the dark.
Richard Berry, from Natural Resources Wales said:
“Over the last few weeks we’ve had lots of reports in about material in the sea which is often mistaken for sewage or pollution, but is in fact marine algae. It might not look pleasant, but it is a natural process and very common at this time of year and particularly during warm periods of weather.
“It is not causing any environmental impact at the moment, but we’ll continue to monitor conditions in the sea over the coming days.
“If anybody thinks they have noticed pollution that isn’t marine algae, they should always report it to our incident hotline on 0800 80 70 60.”
My best guess is that the substance on these branches is 'Trentepohlia', a genus of filamentous green chlorophyte algae which lives on tree trunks and wet logs. The strong brownish-orange color of the filaments, which mask the green of the chlorophyll, is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments. I discovered this algae growing on top of a high bluff next to the Pacific Ocean in northern California.
"Algal and cyanobacterial blooms can grow in fresh water, salt water, and brackish water (a mixture of fresh and salt water) around the world, including in water people use for drinking or recreation. Harmful blooms tend to form in warm water with high levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus."
This was adjoining a farmyard where these chemical concentrates probably leaked from.
Guarlford, Malvern, Worcs
This almost fluorescent orange algae thrives in this part of the North Island -- it's all over. It was hard to get a good photo of, but this at least gives an idea. It was also hard to ID! Didn't help that it was identified there as a type of "brown algae", which I took to mean Phaeophyta -- that turned out to be a dead end. A brute-force Flickr search on "New Zealand algae" finally turned up a photo labeled with an ID. It turns out to be botanically a type of green algae (Chlorophyta) called Trentepohlia.
A close look at almost any intertidal rocky shore or coral reef will reveal an abundance of pink to pinkish-grey patches, splashed as though by a mad painter over rock surfaces. These patches of pink are actually living algae....crustose coralline red algae. The red algae belong to the division Rhodophyta, within which the coralline algae form a distinct, exclusively marine order, the Corallinales.
A family observe Algae through a microscope,
MMU Family Fun Day
National Science & Engineering week 2011
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Taken with 40x Zeiss Plan achromat lens and modified brightfield setup. Zeiss photomicroscope II 1.3 NA Abbe condenser. Sample in a well slide. Diatoma vulgaris or Diatoma hiemale?
the water at low tide looks in a disgusting state. Environment Agency have told me that it's decaying algae, Phaeocystis, NOT sewage. It's non poisonous, but is messy. You can download a document from the Environment Agency website about marine algae at www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-algae-advice-fo...
Basil needed a bath after his morning run.
With this infographic from our spring edition of the magazine, we looked at the history of algal blooms in the Great Lakes by the numbers and what policies and organizations have been implemented to reduce those numbers
Enjoy the pretty soothing colors.... *drool*
Focus stack of 9 images. Oblique illumination, 10X lomo
Schmitz
salal leaf
KOH
about 500u diam
parasitic algae are not the norm. The only species that is common in the United States is Cephaleuros virescens. It causes a disease called algal leaf spot - hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/algal-leaf-spot/
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
Found in pond water.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked) Bikonta
Subkingdom: Corticata
Kingdom: Chromalveolata
Superphylum: Heterokonta
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Class: Bacillariophyceae
Subclass: Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder: Coscinodiscanae
Order: Melosirales
Family: Melosiraceae
Genus: Melosira