Posts tagged “Botany”
What I’ve noticed
Monitor Mix is complaining about the same music being redone. Have you ever heard of Cilla Black or Sandy Shaw? Doing science in a nutshell at Seeds Aside: If you don’t make mistakes, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t correct those mistakes you’re doing it really wrong. If you can’t accept that you’re mistaken, […]
Pinyon confusion…
Pinyon pine cover quite a bit of the west. Economically, they’re good for pine nuts and fence posts. Ecologically, of course, they’re a lot more important than that. They’re also very important in figuring out what the climate was like a long time ago since their needles can be found in packrat middens dating back […]
Berry Go Round 5
The 5th edition of Berry Go Round is being hosted at A Neotropical Savanna this month. A Neotropical Savanna is one of my favorite blogs, so you should definitely go check it out. But if you’re too lazy, I’ve got the best bits right here: Mutant! I love questions about why a particular morphology exists. […]
Spring break, day 5: Lotusland part 8
My favorite part of the garden by far was the cycad garden. Ganna Walska put this garden in later in her life. She sold a significant amount of her jewelry to be able to afford the cycads. This particular cycad is a male of the species Encephalartos woodsii. This is an incredibly rare species and […]
Spring break, day 5: Lotusland part 7
The succulent garden felt strange to me because of the deciduous trees nearby. One of the oddest gardens was the blue garden. Ganna Walska planted as many foliage plants with blueish foliage as she could find in this garden. There was an incredible planting of cacti and euphorbs near the main house. This is a […]
Spring break, day 5: Lotusland part 6
The topiary garden was fun, but pretty standard. The main lawn had some very bizarre contrasts – like these huge agaves against a manicured lawn. Thankfully, we headed back into the shade at this point. I was working on a terrific sunburn. In the shade palm garden, a lot of the plants were fruiting. I […]
Spring break, day 5: Lotusland part 5
We walked through the orchards to the gardens surrounding the house. Then we walked down a path lined with olive trees to a hidden cactus garden.