This weekend and a couple of days more I am
Working with my colegues on an intergenerational learning EU funded project here in Stokes.It is nice to meet old friends again and altrough we work hard we do have great
time together.As we are just waiting taxi to take us to our offices here are just some botanical expressions from victorian hotel we are staying in
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This weekend and a couple of days more I am
Working with my colegues on an intergenerational learning EU funded project here in Stokes.It is nice to meet old friends again and altrough we work hard we do have great
time together.As we are just waiting taxi to take us to our offices here are just some botanical expressions from victorian hotel we are staying in
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I have no idea how this weird octopus-like mushrooms came from Tasmania and Australia just to the forest behind my house.They look like aliens in fall forest and I believe any alien ewer smelled that bad as these mushrooms do.But still, this is nature and according to Wikipedia even edible one:
The Octopus Stinkhorn is edible, but its taste is extremely foul. The eggs of this fungus taste and smell like radish and are the only edible stage. It should only be eaten in a wilderness survival circumstance when no other food is available. In other cases, it is considered inedible.
| Octopus Stinkhorn | |
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| Octopus Stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) with suberumpent eggs | |
| Conservation status | |
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uncommon
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Phallales |
| Family: | Phallaceae |
| Genus: | Clathrus |
| Species: | C. archeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Clathrus archeri (Berk.) Dring 1980 |
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This morning I parked my car in one of the streets I usually do,went to parking meters fishing for small coins in my bag , thinking about the work I must do today and wishing weekend would’t be so far.Waiting a parking meter to print a bill I was looking around (and not feeling enthusiastic about anything at all) as I saw a white cloud before a wall.I couldn’t help myself-the very next moment I was taking pictures
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
My Botanical Garden was invited to contribute an article for Urban Gardens NYC blog .This is a blog that (from ABOUT section) states:
Urban gardening is nothing new, even in a concrete jungle like New York City. But the sheer scale on which green spaces are sprouting up around the city these days is something worth talking about. This blog was inspired by the nearly 625 gardens registered last year in the NYCHA 2011 Annual Garden and Greening Awards Competition. Gardens like those grown by public housing residents continue to proliferate, and this blog supports the amazing phenomenon by providing information, tips, success stories, and shared experiences.
I was happy to have an invitation from someone not only interested in the same topics as am I,but even more, having an interesting, educative ,ambitious blog.It was my pleasure to write an article about city gardens Krakovo in Ljubljana-THE KRAKOVO GARDENS.Here is the link for the article:
http://urbangardensnyc.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/the-krakovo-gardens/
And make sure to check other posts down there in Urban Gardens NYC-they are great!
Fall colors bring the last sun before winter.But before forests turn their foliage to yelowish part of the specte the last summer flowers pretend this summer will never end.Zinnias make even this little garden an oasis of summer,delivering a piece of colour memoirs to those passing by.I’ve remembered little zinnia bouquets from the food market that we loved so much, that we kept buying them untill we believed they are nothing special and traded them for some fancy flowers in trend.What a pity a human eye recognizes colors, but the meanings remain unseen just too often……
Johann Gottfried Zinn was born in Schwabach. Considering his short life span, Zinn made a great contribution to the study of anatomy. In his book Descriptio anatomica oculi humani, he provided the first detailed and comprehensive anatomy of the human eye.
In addition to his medical career, Zinn was also an ardent botanist. In 1750, the German Ambassador to Mexico sent Zinn some seeds of mal de ojos, which was considered a weed in Mexico, but the plant briefly aroused interest in Germany. [1]
Botanist Carolus Linnaeus designated a genus of flowers in the family Asteraceaenative from Mexico as Zinnia in his honour. Zinnia was introduced to Europe in 1613. from :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Zinn
from:http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/mary-cassatt/woman-with-a-red-zinnia-1891
| Zinnia | |
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| Zinnia × hybrida flower and foliage | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheae[1] |
| Genus: | Zinnia L. |
| Type species | |
| Zinnia peruviana (L.) L. | |
| Synonyms | |
| Crassina Scepin Diplothrix DC. Mendezia DC. Tragoceros Kunth[2]from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinnia |
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