Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Friendly fronds

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Two species of ferns with tens of millions of years of evolution between them reproduced, creating a hybrid named Cystocarpium roskamianum...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Pantomiming plant

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Earlier this month, I blogged about a first in the animal kingdom , discovered in Brazil. Now, South America has yielded a first in the pl...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Self-contained

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" It’s 6' from a window so gets a bit of sunlight. It grows towards the light so it gets turned round every so often so it grows ...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Horticultural heist

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The smallest water lily in the world, the pygmy Rwandan water lily ( Nymphaea thermarum ), is described as just 1 cm wide with tiny satin ...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Angiosperm in amber

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As usual, when I find a story about something fossilized in amber , I look no further… This time it's an angiosperm (flowering plant) ...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Anachronistic Osage orange

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I don't remember what we called them when I was growing up in Illinois ( hedge apples ?), but I do remember some mischievous boys thro...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Mushrooms make wind

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These are not the eggs of the great auk , but a bunch of shiitake mushrooms. Not only are they striking in color and pattern, but in their...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Apple family tree

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British horticulturist Paul Barnett has spent the last 24 years cultivating a total of 250 varieties of apples in his back garden in Chi...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Plant with a palate for mutton

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  The Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley in Surrey, England, has been trying to coax a Chilean plant to bloom for 15 years and it's...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Post-glacier regrowth

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In 2007, researchers from the University of Alberta were collecting plant samples from the receding edges of the Teardrop Glacier in the ...