Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Video - Transpiration Process in Plants
Video explaining the transpiration process in plants. Transpiration is the loss of water in parts of the plant.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Jackson Township, Ohio - Annual Horticulture Holiday Show
The horticulture class is a career tech program at Jackson High School. Students can work towards greenhouse technician, florist or landscape and nursery certifications. Plus, they receive 12 credit hours that transfer to higher education providers.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Video - Plants in Landour & Mussoorie, India
First part of this short short video showcases the plant diversity in Landour & Mussoorie. Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 miles) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN - Lecture Series
NEXT EDWARDS LECTUREDan Benarcik, Horticulturist
25 TOP PLANTS FOR ALL-SEASON SPLASH
Want to know what should be on every gardener's holiday list? Whether you are an active gardener or you are creating a landscape to enjoy, these 25 plants will introduce you to new and exciting combinations. Join us for TBG's Holiday Open House and learn about these hardy and tender seasonal must-haves for containers, display and bedding on this festive evening to welcome winter. Dan Benarcik is a horticulturist at the renowned Chanticleer Garden near Philadelphia, where he concentrates on tropical, sub-tropical and tender perennials for seasonal display.
Thursday, December 8
Location: Floral Hall
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Admission: public $20
students $15 / members FREE.
All Edwards Lectures are generously sponsored by the Edwards Charitable Foundation.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Commodity Bulletins from India's NHB
The National Horticulture Board (NHB) was set up by the Government of India in 1984 as an autonomous society under the Societies Registration Act 1860. Board has its Head Quarter in Institutional Area, Sector 18, Gurgaon (Haryana).
Link: http://nhb.gov.in/statistics/commodity-bulletin.html
Contact Information:
National Horticulture Board
Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
85, Institutional Area, Sector - 18
Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana)
Telephone 0124-2342992, 2347441, 2342989-90 FAX : 2342991
Website: http://www.nhb.gov.in
Monday, November 7, 2011
Tesselaar Plants' 2012 Trend Predictions
High-value, water-wise plants, small water features and Mediterranean style among next year’s gardening trendsNov. 4, 2011 – Forget all those doomsday predictions about 2012. From the garden world’s perspective, life will continue to be good – with gardeners saving themselves water, hassles and misspent money. At least that’s according to several savvy garden experts and a leading garden trends survey.
Water-wise plants, products
In light of recent droughts in places like Georgia, Texas and the Carolinas, people are trying to use the water they do have more frugally, Coates explains. “People are making sure they’re watering responsibly, choosing plants that aren’t water hogs and putting rain sensors on their irrigation systems. They’re also making sure the irrigation is monitored so it’s not watering the driveway and sidewalk.”
Water-wise plants will also make the Mediterranean garden style (above) hot in 2012, says Genevieve Schmidt, a northern coastal California landscape designer and author of the North Coast Gardening blog. Mediterranean landscape design, she explains, often features open and airy courtyards, light-colored, textured hardscaping such as mosaic walls, gravel beds or unglazed terra cotta pots and low-growing, drought-tolerant plants, hedges, topiary trees and vines (i.e. olive, bay and lemon trees, succulents, lavender, palms, roses and grasses). “Of course, the vivid colors also help make this a winning style.”
Monday, August 10, 2009
Restoration of native plants gets a boost
The Oregonian's Abby Haight spotlights a little nursery, staffed by one manager and volunteers which harvest and propogate wildflowers, grasses and wetland plants.
The Native Plant Center is managed by Marsha Holt-Kingsley and is quoted saying "We're imitating nature," through their painstaking work.
"The knowledge that I'm helping this region that I love so much is fantastic," she said. "I no longer have a garden, but I can garden for the world."
Read complete article at the Ashland Daily Tidings>
The Native Plant Center is managed by Marsha Holt-Kingsley and is quoted saying "We're imitating nature," through their painstaking work.
"The knowledge that I'm helping this region that I love so much is fantastic," she said. "I no longer have a garden, but I can garden for the world."
Read complete article at the Ashland Daily Tidings>
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
University of Toronto helps to 'barcode' the world's plants
Published: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 09:32 in Biology & Nature
An international team of scientists, including botanists from the University of Toronto, have identified a pair of genes which can be used to catalogue the world's plants using a technique known as DNA barcoding — a rapid and automated classification method that uses a short genetic marker in an organism's DNA to identify it as belonging to a particular species.
"Barcoding provides an efficient means by which we can discover the many undescribed species that exist on earth," says Spencer Barrett, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto and the head of the Canadian plant barcoding working group. "This discovery is important because understanding biodiversity is crucial to long-term human existence on the planet."
DNA barcoding has been widely used to identify animal species since its invention five years ago. But its use for plants was delayed because of the complex nature of plant genetics and disagreements over the appropriate DNA regions to use.
"We compared the performance of the seven leading candidate gene regions against three criteria: ease of obtaining DNA sequences; quality of the DNA sequences; and ability to tell species apart based on a sample of 550 species of land plants", says Barrett. "Based on this global analysis we recommended that matK and rbcL — two chloroplast genes — are adopted as the DNA barcode for land plants."
The primary application of the methodology will be the identification of the many species in the world's biodiversity hotspots where a shortage of specialists hinders conservation efforts. Other applications include identifying illegal trade in endangered species, identifying invasive organisms, poisonous species and fragmentary material in forensic investigations. The technique will work on minute amounts of tissue and can be used on fragments of plant material, small seedlings, and in some cases digested or processed samples.
The methodology will also be used immediately in global projects such as Tree-BOL which aims to build the DNA barcode database for all the species of trees of the world — many of which are of economic and conservation importance.
The report appears this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences under the group authorship of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) Plant Working Group.
Source: University of Toronto
An international team of scientists, including botanists from the University of Toronto, have identified a pair of genes which can be used to catalogue the world's plants using a technique known as DNA barcoding — a rapid and automated classification method that uses a short genetic marker in an organism's DNA to identify it as belonging to a particular species.
"Barcoding provides an efficient means by which we can discover the many undescribed species that exist on earth," says Spencer Barrett, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto and the head of the Canadian plant barcoding working group. "This discovery is important because understanding biodiversity is crucial to long-term human existence on the planet."
DNA barcoding has been widely used to identify animal species since its invention five years ago. But its use for plants was delayed because of the complex nature of plant genetics and disagreements over the appropriate DNA regions to use.
"We compared the performance of the seven leading candidate gene regions against three criteria: ease of obtaining DNA sequences; quality of the DNA sequences; and ability to tell species apart based on a sample of 550 species of land plants", says Barrett. "Based on this global analysis we recommended that matK and rbcL — two chloroplast genes — are adopted as the DNA barcode for land plants."
The primary application of the methodology will be the identification of the many species in the world's biodiversity hotspots where a shortage of specialists hinders conservation efforts. Other applications include identifying illegal trade in endangered species, identifying invasive organisms, poisonous species and fragmentary material in forensic investigations. The technique will work on minute amounts of tissue and can be used on fragments of plant material, small seedlings, and in some cases digested or processed samples.
The methodology will also be used immediately in global projects such as Tree-BOL which aims to build the DNA barcode database for all the species of trees of the world — many of which are of economic and conservation importance.
The report appears this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences under the group authorship of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) Plant Working Group.
Source: University of Toronto
A variety of vegetables can grow well in county
Cynthia WallRankin Ledger Correspondent
Houston Therrell squats by one tomato plant, twisting one almost ripe piece of fruit in his hand.
His brow furrows. He frowns as he pulls one tomato closer, a small hole gnawed in its side. "I think a squirrel got to this one," he tells visitors, scorn, disappointment and a little disbelief in his voice. Disappointment that the produce isn't perfect. Disbelief that anything would touch this prize patch he planted to demonstrate what different tomato plants could produce. Pity that squirrel should he catch it. Read more>
His brow furrows. He frowns as he pulls one tomato closer, a small hole gnawed in its side. "I think a squirrel got to this one," he tells visitors, scorn, disappointment and a little disbelief in his voice. Disappointment that the produce isn't perfect. Disbelief that anything would touch this prize patch he planted to demonstrate what different tomato plants could produce. Pity that squirrel should he catch it. Read more>
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Canada: Hothouse fruit, veg sales up, flowers down
Sales of greenhouse products in Canada declined 7.6 per cent from 2007 to $2.1 billion in 2008, as an increase in fruit and vegetable sales was more than offset by a drop in sales of flowers and plants, Statistics Canada reported Monday.
Total greenhouse area amounted to 20.8 million square metres, down from 20.9 million in 2007, the second consecutive annual decline. It was accompanied by lower production and sales, and by a drop in employment. The nursery sector also experienced a slight decrease in sales, the federal statistics agency said.Total operating expenses fell five per cent to $2 billion. Labour costs of $544 million accounted for 27.7 per cent of total expenses for greenhouse operators. The number of seasonal and permanent greenhouse workers declined by 8.6 per cent to 38,375.
Greenhouse operators reported total sales of flowers and plants amounting to $1.3 billion, down 13.6 per cent from 2007. Operators in Ontario, the largest producing province, reported a 20.7 per cent decline.
Sales of potted flowers and plants reached $647 million, representing nearly one half of all sales of flowers and plants. They were followed by sales of ornamental plants for transplanting, valued at $226 million, and sales of cut flowers at $126 million. Sales fell in all categories of flowers and plants.
Source: www.grainews.ca
Total greenhouse area amounted to 20.8 million square metres, down from 20.9 million in 2007, the second consecutive annual decline. It was accompanied by lower production and sales, and by a drop in employment. The nursery sector also experienced a slight decrease in sales, the federal statistics agency said.Total operating expenses fell five per cent to $2 billion. Labour costs of $544 million accounted for 27.7 per cent of total expenses for greenhouse operators. The number of seasonal and permanent greenhouse workers declined by 8.6 per cent to 38,375.
Greenhouse operators reported total sales of flowers and plants amounting to $1.3 billion, down 13.6 per cent from 2007. Operators in Ontario, the largest producing province, reported a 20.7 per cent decline.
Sales of potted flowers and plants reached $647 million, representing nearly one half of all sales of flowers and plants. They were followed by sales of ornamental plants for transplanting, valued at $226 million, and sales of cut flowers at $126 million. Sales fell in all categories of flowers and plants.
Source: www.grainews.ca
Good weeds, bad weeds
By Erle Nickel
for the Mercury News
A philosopher once said that a weed is only a weed when you don't want it growing in your garden. That pretty much covers all of those pesky plants, right? Not so fast. Some species have blooms or foliage so pretty that you might want to plant these self-seeders in your garden, or allow a species that just seemed to blow into your yard to stay. The trick is separating the good weeds from the bad ones. Here, from my eclectic garden experience, is my list of heroes, the "weeds" you want in your garden, and villains, those that you most certainly don't. Read more>
for the Mercury News
A philosopher once said that a weed is only a weed when you don't want it growing in your garden. That pretty much covers all of those pesky plants, right? Not so fast. Some species have blooms or foliage so pretty that you might want to plant these self-seeders in your garden, or allow a species that just seemed to blow into your yard to stay. The trick is separating the good weeds from the bad ones. Here, from my eclectic garden experience, is my list of heroes, the "weeds" you want in your garden, and villains, those that you most certainly don't. Read more>
Friday, July 24, 2009
A career in Flowers: Floriculture
by Lavanya_J_Manour
Does a bouquet of bright, red roses make you happy? Do you like to decorate your home with flowers? Or just plain love flowers? The how about making a career with flowers and plants? Be a floriculturist.
Floriculture first took birth in England about two centuries before where flowers were grown in large estates for commercial reasons. Soon it was taken up seriously by many other countries as well. The floral industry today has grown by leaps and bounds and includes various other aspects other than growing flowers. In India, Floriculture industry comprises flower trade, production of nursery plants and potted plants, seed and bulb production, and extraction of essential oils. The industry is growing at the rate of 25% a year. Still the field is under explored. Read more>
Does a bouquet of bright, red roses make you happy? Do you like to decorate your home with flowers? Or just plain love flowers? The how about making a career with flowers and plants? Be a floriculturist.
Floriculture first took birth in England about two centuries before where flowers were grown in large estates for commercial reasons. Soon it was taken up seriously by many other countries as well. The floral industry today has grown by leaps and bounds and includes various other aspects other than growing flowers. In India, Floriculture industry comprises flower trade, production of nursery plants and potted plants, seed and bulb production, and extraction of essential oils. The industry is growing at the rate of 25% a year. Still the field is under explored. Read more>
Fantastic nature photography of plant growth of brambles - The Private Life of Plants - David Attenborough - BBC wildlife
Amazing speeded up footage of brambles in territory grab! From the BBC
Gung-ho about gardening
With gardens overflowing with healthy, happy flowers and whimsical ball topiaries, she offers hope to those of us whose plants wither rather than flourish. Unlike most gardeners who say they were raised in the dirt alongside their gardening parents, Yon Tyre didn't pick up a trowel until well into adulthood. And her beginnings as a gardener were less than fruitful. "I killed a lot of flowers," she said. Yon worked in a dress shop in Korea until she met Farris Tyre, her husband of 26 years, while he was serving there in the Army. "We lived in a city house when I was young," she said. "We didn't have a yard, couldn't have a flower bed." Read more>
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
UK Tourism Hampton Court Palace flower show set to bloom again - eTurboNews.com
| Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – a high point in the UK summer calendar – has been rated a huge success by the organizers. Regular visitors will have noticed a whole new look this year. There was a major change of layout as the four floral marquees were revamped to create one large space for more nurseries to display their products. This also gave visitors the chance to take home an even wider range of plants and flowers.Read more: | |
| UK Tourism Hampton Court Palace flower show set to bloom again - eTurboNews.com Source: eturbonews.com | |
Artdaily.org - The First Art Newspaper on the Net
| WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host a new exhibition titled "Heroes of Horticulture" July 31 through September 27, 2009 in the museum's Babcock Wing gallery. The exhibition, organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in collaboration with The Cultural Landscape Foundation of Washington, D.C., includes photographs of magnificent trees and plantings, some of which are more than 100 years old. Read more: | |
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Height helps perennials compete
DUNCAN KELBAUGHThe natural world is fascinating. Every detail from the shape of a leaf to the colour of a petal or the song of a sparrow has evolved to help each species compete in this busy world. The height of perennial flowers is no exception. Nature has to weigh the cost of growing taller plants (more energy and materials required and more risk of being knocked or blown down) against the benefits of growing taller than the competition.
Five garden plants that love Baltimore humidity
Summer in Baltimore means humidity, and lots of it. Many plants love warm, damp, weather, though Baltimore's climate does not have the year round conditions that tropical plants need. Here are five common garden plants that can thrive in a hot, wet Baltimore summer.
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