Tag: botany
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October 07, 2007 10:06 PM EDT --
My youngest son and I go for some long walks, while my oldest son is in Pre K. We just park the car and set out exploring different neighborhoods. We bring the stroller, the camera, waterbottles, a . . .
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October 07, 2007 05:14 PM EDT --
We have this beautiful tree growing in the front of our house.
In October to November it begins to bloom with the most fragrant and beautiful flowers.
Again I don't like to sound dumb, but being . . .
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August 30, 2009 03:47 AM EDT --
The oldest living plant in the world isn't that bristle cone pine in Nevada or that huckleberry in Pennsylvania.
It's a colony of King's Holly found in the Tasmanian rain forest. . . .
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November 28, 2009 03:43 PM EST --
Bouncing Bet: Here the flowers look white but they can also be pink.
The second picture shows you the leaves
Now for the meat of this article.
Bouncing Bet ( Saponaria . . .
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July 23, 2007 09:34 AM EDT --
The park at Frederiksborg Castle in Hilleroed, Denmark consists of two parks known as the Landscape Garden and the the Baroque Garden. The two gardens are complete contrasts as the Baroque garden is . . .
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July 16, 2007 11:25 PM EDT --
Okay it might be, but not according to the page on Google- so I thought I better take as many picture as I could so someone could more easily identify this plant.
Note the leaves they are much to slender . . .
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February 06, 2007 09:50 PM EST --
Phytotherapy: Not New & Most Effective
Medicine, rather “modern”medicine, has discovered phytotherapy. Phytotherapy is the use of plants with their natural qualities to treat, alleviate . . .
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October 29, 2006 04:22 PM EST --
Now that you've joined a group that gives you the green-light to be a completely shameless points whore , you may be wondering: How exactly do I maximize my points whoring? Am I doing it correctly? . . .
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October 07, 2007 03:31 PM EDT --
Today as we began weeding we noticed this group that remained hidden outside our door and can't seem to find any photos of this kind. Anyone know what kind these are and if they are edible and what . . .
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November 08, 2009 02:34 PM EST --
American Holly - Ilex opaca
I wanted to do a post on a poisonous plant to sort of wind down the whole poisonous / venomous grouping of posts that I did. I picked the American holly . . .
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August 14, 2007 06:42 PM EDT --
Day-Lily (Hemerocallis fulva )
Now I have to say this right off the bat, I don’t encourage the use of wild plants in our diets. Simply because it’s quite to easy to confuse some edible plants . . .
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March 12, 2008 06:35 PM EDT --
Does anybody have experience gardening with Saskatoon blueberries? Do they attract birds, do they really taste like real blueberries? What other value do they have?
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October 12, 2006 08:14 PM EDT --
Common Plantain Plantago major
It surprises me just how many edible plants pop up in your yards as weeds. Common Plantain is one such plant. Plantain has two main uses as a food source It can be cooked . . .
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April 21, 2006 08:03 AM EDT --
Bonsai: A Living Artform
Bonsai…what is it?
Bonsai is to put quite simply is the training & miniaturization of bushes, shrubs & trees by artificial means to specific shapes & . . .
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May 11, 2007 11:39 PM EDT --
Well, I went back to my Secret Hiking Place again to check on the progress over there...I could not wait to get there to see the progress of what I had seen on my last hike and to see what more is going . . .
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July 29, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
As the initial excitement of spring wears away, and I find myself in the heat in these woods, I sometimes feel guilty that my time here seems like a responsibility to me...to you...to Mother Nature. . . .
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April 29, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
So I just wanted to share with you this editorial I read this morning, I believe written to The Boston Globe ...it's GOOD! LOL!
Below are some photographs of a baby cherry tree--weeping. . . .
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May 11, 2008 01:46 AM EDT --
I stress Leica because it struck me as funny last week when, in Target, with my friend, looking at cameras for her, we bumped against a pushy salesman who clearly was obsessed with cameras himself. . . .
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May 15, 2008 11:46 PM EDT --
Last week while venturing through my newest "secret" hiking spot, in a quiet moment I stopped to gaze into the woods and saw something so fascinating....
I decided that I needed . . .
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May 29, 2008 03:56 AM EDT --
On this date, May 28, 2008, the US National Weather Service registered the highest temperature ever measured in Austria's history for the month of May ( NOAA's 24 hour summary . . .
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