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Old Government House, Brisbane, Queensland.
The lone Bunya Pine in front of the House is the sole surviving tree from the original four types of pine planted by Hill in 1861. Lady Bowen, a keen gardener, was the first mistress of the House and helped to further establish the garden.
Gardening was a popular female pursuit in the mid-19th century, and her husband, Governor Bowen, was proud to inform visitors to the House that “every shrub and flower has been planted by Lady Bowen’s hands or has thriven under her loving care”...
The House was designed so that the governor had a view of the adjacent Botanic Gardens from his office. These gardens were established in 1855 and played a key role in the development of Queensland’s primary industries. Walter Hill, a botanist trained at the prestigious Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was appointed first Superintendent and allocated 9 acres (3.6 ha) and a sum of £500 to purchase rare plants.
Hill experimented with different plants to see which would thrive in or adapt to local conditions. He can be credited with the genesis of Queensland’s sugar cane industry after trialling the crop in the Botanic Gardens. Along with a planter from Barbados, John Buchot, Hill made the first sugar ever produced in the colony in 1862. The pair conducted a top-secret experiment in the dead of night, crushing sugar cane with a lever and boiling the juice in a saucepan, thereby settling the uncertainty over whether Queensland sugar cane juice would granulate. Hill also planted the first commercially grown Macadamias in the world, originally sourcing the native trees from the Queensland bush.
It was also Hill’s responsibility to lay out the original garden for Old Government House, with some elements, including the driveway and kidney-shaped lawn outside the Governor’s Library, still visible today. www.ogh.qut.edu.au/history/the_house/gardens.jsp
Araucaria bidwillii, the bunya pine, is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the plant family Araucariaceae. It is found naturally in south-east Queensland Australia… They can grow up to 30–45 m.
The Bunya Pine is the last surviving species of the Section Bunya of the genus Araucaria. This section was diverse and widespread during the Mesozoic with some species having cone morphology similar to A. bidwillii, which appeared during the Jurassic. Fossils of Section Bunya are found in South America and Europe. The scientific name honours the botanist John Carne Bidwill, who sent the first specimens to Sir William Hooker in 1843.
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There was much excitement among the numerous photographers out on Honeymoon Island when this owl was discovered, asleep up in one of the pine trees.
Many dead whitebark pine near Esmeralda Basin, see www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/Threats/blister-... , although seem to be some (not in this photo) which appear quite healthy, including many smaller ones.
also present Subalpine Fir and Engelmann Spruce
www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/endangered-specie...
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Kefalonia has a unique species of Pine tree. Abies cephalonica grows profusely through the central region of the island and most of the way up the slopes of Mount Ainos.
Went out for a quick tour of the Parks today and ran into Raymond Lee for the first time at Hawrelak Park. I managed to get a couple of fairly clean perch shots of some Pine Grosbeaks and a feeder shot of a Redpoll before my feet started to freeze up :) I was definitely not wearing great footware for -20. It is always good running into fellow Flickr members.
Brief early moring visit to Chapel Trail preserve. Had a mixed flock of about 12 warblers which appeared to be mostly Pine Warblers.
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Pine Forest Range
Northern Nevada's 25,000 acre Pine Forest Range Wilderness. The area is an island in the sky rising almost 6,000 feet above the desert floor to peaks that top out at just below 10,000 feet. The range has been glaciated, and has several cirque lakes which are very uncommon in the Great Basin -- The largest, Blue Lake, is shown in the image "reflection".
The 4-WD access route travels through huge patches of aspen interspersed with meadows/sage (aspen) -- Whitebark and Limber Pine cover the peaks giving the area its name. In mid-July, the wildflower bloom in the west had moved to the highest elevations. This part of Nevada is as dark as anywhere in the continental U.S. so the Milky Way is very visible!!
Photo’s by Bob Wick and Rita Ayers, BLM
8120 is the platform road at Pine Creek Station as 7256 pases by on the main line.
Diamond Valley Railway - Sunday January 22nd 2023.
Botanic Gardens, Rockhampton, Queensland. Thought this would be an interesting place for a HDR. Had a few attempts at processing the image, i think this one ended up the best.
Pine Forest Range
Northern Nevada's 25,000 acre Pine Forest Range Wilderness. The area is an island in the sky rising almost 6,000 feet above the desert floor to peaks that top out at just below 10,000 feet. The range has been glaciated, and has several cirque lakes which are very uncommon in the Great Basin -- The largest, Blue Lake, is shown in the image "reflection".
The 4-WD access route travels through huge patches of aspen interspersed with meadows/sage (aspen) -- Whitebark and Limber Pine cover the peaks giving the area its name. In mid-July, the wildflower bloom in the west had moved to the highest elevations. This part of Nevada is as dark as anywhere in the continental U.S. so the Milky Way is very visible!!
Photo’s by Bob Wick and Rita Ayers, BLM