A diverse range of companies from dog food manufacturers to botanical gardens might be affected by environmental regulations.
William S. Bigelow an American physician living in Japan and botanist Charles S. Sargent sent cherry trees to the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia in the 1890s for example and the Imperial Botanic Garden
in Tokyo added to the arboretum's collection in 1894. In Washington D c agriculture department official David Fairchild imported 100 Japanese cherry trees in 1906 to his own Maryland property to see how well they grew.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden planted its cherry walk in 1921. A realtor in Macon Ga. decided to expand the number of cherry trees in his hometown after visiting Washington D c. in 1952.
Climb and oversized nest Several blocks away from Prospect Park at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden another tree-repurposing effort has taken shape in the form of a nestlike structure that visitors can climb inside.
Manhattan-based treehouse artist Roderick Romero created the installation from heaps of limbs strewn throughout the garden after the storm
A group of urban sustainability graduate students from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn stopped by the nest last week while perusing the garden chatting positively about the sculpture.
#Innovative Garden System Lets You Grow Wherever You Go Think a home garden is only for people with green thumbs and big backyards?
The Nourishmat Garden System a 4-by-6 mat with a planting grid and built-in irrigation was designed in 2011 as a way to make home gardening simple and accessible to anyone with a few square feet of space
One of these advances is the Southwest Experimental Garden Array or SEGA a $5 million facility
SEGA will create a system of 10 gardens along a steep elevation gradient in northern Arizona.
Because temperature and moisture predictably change with elevation these gardens reflect climate differences ranging from desert to alpine forest that mimic the effects of climate change.
Fletcher thinks the embankments represent gardens but their exact purpose remains unknown. The channels would have carried water to the various plants
and trees growing in the gardens he suggested. The research also involved French archaeologist and ADF program director Jean-Â Baptiste Chevance Christophe Pottier of The french School of the Far east (EFEO) and other scientists.
Discuss how soil ph can be adjusted in a home garden to grow the crops you choose.
a vegetable garden a grass lawn an area where pine trees are growing well a creek or river bank a field growing commercial crops such as wheat soybeans or corn.
1. Buy a soil testing kit from a home and garden center. Carefully follow all of the manufacturer s directions.
and the Kew Gardens in London still had many intact pieces of DNA. In fact the DNA quality was so good the researchers were able to sequence the entire genome of Phytophthora infestans and its host the potato within just a few weeks.
In addition to the two new landmarks the boundaries of Garden Park Fossil Area National Natural Landmark located in Fremont County Colo. have been expanded.
#NY Giant Pumpkin Carving Weekend Smashes Record The world s largest pumpkin and gourds are on display this weekend through Halloween at the New york Botanical garden where expert carvers are currently at work providing
Autumn Colors The Haunted Pumpkin Garden will also display four other ginormous pumpkins which Villafane
The Haunted Garden will also display the world s largest watermelon weighing 350.5 pounds and grown in Sevierville Tennessee;
As many as 15000 people are expected to visit the NY Botanical garden s Haunted Garden in The bronx this weekend.
My friend Matt has raised an amazing vegetable garden every year since I met him 12 years ago.
and sculptures ornately designed rooms (like the oehall of Mirrors) and even technological innovations such as pressurized water fountains in its gardens that jetted water into the air
A series of gardens created in a formal style stood to the west of the palace (one of them today is in the shape of a star) and contained sculptures as well as the pressurized fountains capable of launching water high into the air. oefrom the outset
Their virtuosity formed the star turn of a tour of the gardens writes Tony Spawforth a professor at Newcastle University in his book Versailles:
In addition a grand canal constructed to the west of the garden and running about a mile long was used for naval demonstrations
Like the palace itself it had an abundant garden whose smells were said to overpower visitors oethe tuberoses drive us away from Trianon every evening wrote Madame de Maintenon in a letter dated Aug 8 1689. oethe excess of fragrance causes men
Illegal marijuana gardens hacked into public lands also expose wildlife to fertilizers and toxic rat poison other studies have shown.
In a nod to the world's 30000 herbs that belong to a storied history of healing botanists have gathered 500 medicinal plants for a living exhibition called Wild Medicine here at the New york Botanical garden.
Balick who is the garden's vice president for botanical science knows all too well about the dangers of curare.
and explained his story the operator told him to call plant expert Michael Balick of the New york Botanical garden.
and the oldest intact academic botanical garden established in 1545. In a garden like this Renaissance-era medical students would have studied the labels of the neatly laid plots
and learned how to identify plants. And when they didn't have access to the herbs themselves they would have hit the books.
A concurrent exhibition of manuscripts at the New york Botanical garden offers examples of early botanical textbooks some of them more than 700 years old.
#Produce From Urban Gardens Could Contain Lead Urban food gardens offer a great source of affordable nutritious fruits
When urban gardeners dig in the soil they can stir up dust from the garden and inhale the lead particles it contains.
Dietrich recommends situating gardens away from the base of the house and away from roadways where lead levels may be highest.
Before planting a food garden Langley-Turnbaugh recommends testing the soil for contamination. Most states offer low-cost soil testing through their agricultural cooperative extensions.
Soil in urban gardens may be contaminated with toxic metals especially lead. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
Researchers compared six schools with a kitchen garden program to six schools that had schoolyard gardens
Tasting new foods Children participating in the program spent at least 45 minutes a week in the garden with a garden specialist.
write about their time in the garden for an English assignment; or learn to identify plants in science class.
Surveys completed at the end of the kitchen garden program found that kids in the program group were twice as willing to try new foods as children who did not participate in a structured program.
At the beginning of the study parents in schools with the kitchen garden program reported that nearly 39 percent of children were willing to try a new food
your garden or back yard silt from near a pond or creek a sandy area such as a beach or sand box.
You might also include some potting soil from the garden store. 2. Place each sample of dirt in a separate plastic bag.
For example a flower for the garden dirt or a wavy line for the creek. Stick the label on the plastic bag.
oehow is the garden dirt different from the sand? 6. Visit a library and check out a book about soil or rocks.
Last Saturday Caitlin Mackenzie finished setting up the common gardens in Acadia national park that will provide data for her Ph d. research on the effects of climate change on plants.
and the park was locked blocking access to the gardens and the new vulnerable transplants. Mackenzie reports that it's been warm and sunny in Acadia
A titan arum (or corpse flower) housed here at the U s. Botanic Garden Conservatory has been smelling up its exhibition hall to the delight of thousands of visitors
and public programs manager at the U s. Botanic Garden said. Over the course of the next several days the whole plant will essentially fall apart.
and there are absolutely records in botanic gardens or other horticultural institutions of these plants blooming multiple times in their life spans
Cormac Jensen a 10-year-old visiting the gardens with his father wasn't disappointed that the flower had stopped already giving off its odor.
#Sound Garden: Can Plants Actually Talk and Hear? The forest really does hum with life.
Designs might include gardens water features and shapes mimicking those from nature like shells and foliage.
when we post our photos of rosy sunsets blooming gardens and tranquil lakes online. Could we apply biophilic design to our hardware
During WORLD WAR II kale was recommended often for victory gardens because it is grown easily and filled with important nutrients that supplemented meals limited by wartime rationing.
when they bloom and it's driven totally by warmth said Paul Meyer executive director of the Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania.
Onions also grew in Chinese gardens as early as 5000 years ago and they are referred to in the oldest Vedic writings from India.
and cabbages and excavators of the doomed city found gardens where just as Pliny had said onions had grown.
The city could save $100 million each year by diverting organic waste from landfills and turning it into healthy soil for parks and gardens.
which uses natural techniques like green roofs rain gardens street plantings and rain barrels to capture rainfall
The end result is a completely biodegradable packing material that is safe to chuck in your garden or compost pile.
#'Smart'Garden Morphs to Reflect Moods of Visitors A high-tech garden that can change the way it looks
The garden consists of a raw steel structure that responds to people's Twitter updates.
See photos of the experimental smart garden The researchers presented the project last month at a horticultural event called Garden Up in Sheffield England.
The garden reacted to social media activity when people tweeted using the hashtag#gardenup. Specially designed software then translated the reactions on Twitter into movements within the garden's mechanical landscape.
We exist in a dynamic flux of social information. The software aims to intercept and expose some of this data in a tangible representation Duncan Rowland a researcher at the University of Lincoln's School of Computer science who developed the software application said in a statement.
The garden essentially points to a future in which buildings could modify themselves in response to monitoring our emotional state via social media Richard Wright a senior lecturer at the Lincoln School of architecture said in a statement.
The Twitter-reactive garden was inspired by another structure the University of Lincoln's Digital Capabilities garden
or other chemicals but online home and garden forums are full of complaints about these swimming holes'dark side.
#Among the 36 varieties of 14 species shared on April 17 Were wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled cress from Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed in Oregon Full Pint malting barley from Pat Hayes of Oregon
Mycologists Bryn Dentinger and Laura Suz from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew UK used DNA sequencing to identify three new species in a packet of dried porcini mushrooms purchased from a supermarket
and nourishing gardens of algae that supplement the sloths'diet new research finds. Leaving the trees burns energy
and into the yard or garden you can still use some simple plant science experiments to sharpen your little ones interest in seeds and plants.
They also live in lawns and gardens especially at the edges of woods and old stone walls according to New york's Department of health.
and nourishing gardens of algae that supplement the sloths'diet new research finds. Leaving the trees burns energy
and replace it with a beautiful drought-tolerant garden that doesn't need precious drinking water
If you plan to reuse soapy water in your garden make sure your soap is safe for plants.
Reuse that water in your garden instead of letting it push motor oil pet waste and garbage from the streets into local rivers.
Green roofs porous pavement rain gardens and other water-saving techniques are called green infrastructure. More cities and property owners are choosing to invest in these strategies as a way to save water reduce pollution and save millions or billions of dollars over the cost of building new tanks tunnels and traditional water infrastructure.
or botanical gardens preserving some genetic diversity. Biologist Sean Hoban uses mathematical and computational tools to develop guidelines for ecologists
and storing them in botanic gardens or seed banks. I use mathematical and genetic models to determine how many seeds are needed
Where the rubber meets the garden: Nature Newswith a combination of carefully groomed landscapes and the natural splendour of tropical rainforests, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical garden (XTBG) in China's southwestern Yunnan province is renowned for its exceptional beauty (see map.
The 900-hectare garden, which has a collection of 11,700 plant species, is the Chinese Academy of Sciences'flagship institute for conservation research.
Around it, however, the forests have increasingly been being replaced by row upon row of rubber trees;
and rubber is a painful reminder of the responsibility of botanical gardens in wider conservation efforts in the real world,
says Joachim Gratzfeld, director of regional programmes at Botanic Gardens Conservation International in Richmond, UK.
Ironically, the garden owes its existence to rubber. During the 1950s, in a bid to produce its own rubber in the face of mounting international isolation
and so set up the botanical garden as a research base. But as rubber prices have tripled over the past decade,
The economic gain from rubber is evident during a drive around Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna 70 kilometres from the garden
Hu Huabin, director of the garden's research-planning and foreign-affairs division, and his colleagues have calculated the changes in the value of ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling,
It is to house 300 full-time researchers twice the garden's current number with greater capacity for visiting scholars
The future of the botanical garden is linked intimately to the future of the ecological environment of the region,
They're also growing vegetables rather than crops like wheat on floating gardens. They use a bamboo frame and load it with water hyacinth,
They are also reaching gardens and vegetable patches, says Johann Goldammer, a fire ecologist and director of the GFMC.
Many poor people will lose their harvest, which they need to survive the winter, he says.
was conducted by plant scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, and is published today. It finds that gymnosperms
Stephen Hopper, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, says that the assessment will help countries to measure progress towards new targets to halt loss of the world's biodiversity by 2020,
and with sightings in gardens made by members of the public, she says. Researchers already enlist help from garden clubs
and nurseries to monitor these islands of bee biodiversity, she adds. Scientists at the conference also identified a need for basic research into bumblebee genetic diversity.
Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, and the Missouri Botanical garden in St louis sorted through 1. 24 million plant names from a number of data sets,
whittling them down to about 300,000 separate species linked to almost 480,000 synonyms. Policy Emissions control The US Environmental protection agency's first controls on greenhouse-gas emissions came into effect on 2 january.
Nature Newsmodern botanic gardens are much more than just attractive strolling grounds. Many have labs in
Hulme says that many invasive plant species escaped from botanic gardens, and that the gardens do not do enough to keep their collections in check.
Hulme got the idea for the research in Tanzania. The field site he was visiting was near a botanic garden
and he could see that many of the plants in the site had come from the garden.
A lot of the species were spreading into the forest, he says. Hulme first looked at the 34 plants on an International Union for Conservation of Nature list of 100 of the worst invasive species. For 19 of the 34,
there was evidence that they may have escaped from botanic gardens. For example, the Brazilian fruiting tree known as strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum),
is thought to have jumped the fence from the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum in Honolulu in the early 20th century.
back when some gardens were trying to get nonnative or alien plants to naturalize in new places,
whether botanic gardens had cleaned since up their act. To find out, he looked at whether areas with more botanic gardens had more alien plants living there.
He used published accounts of the Gross domestic product, population density and alien species diversity of 26 counties.
Then he added to the mix the number of botanic gardens per unit area using a master list of gardens kept by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI),
a global network of botanic gardens that is based in London. He discovered that they did,
although the effect was not strong once the prosperity of the region and the number of people living there were accounted for.
But 12%of the variation in alien-plant richness seems to be down to botanic gardens.
High numbers of gardens and alien species might both be the result of some third factor.
Whatever the reason, Hulme thinks the figure should be enough to make garden managers take notice.
According to Hulme, few gardens have signed onto voluntary pledges such as the St louis Declaration, wherein they promise to keep an eye on potential invasive plants,
I just wanted to prick the conscience of botanic gardens, he says. Stephen Blackmore, head of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK, says that the botanic-garden community has been buzzing about Hulme's paper.
Many of the managers that he's corresponded with feel that the picture Hulme paints is a bit simplistic.
many share the sense that the era of botanic gardens as intentional introducers of plants to new areas is long past and that, these days,
. I am not saying that that lets botanic gardens off the hook, says Blackmore. He agrees that the issue is an important one to highlight.
But he also says that many gardens take steps to limit the danger of unwanted escapees.
At his garden, he says, new specimens from abroad are held in quarantine houses until they've been checked for diseases
BGCI is beginning a project with the Council of europe to develop guidelines about the management of alien and invasive species in European botanic gardens, according to Suzanne Sharrock, director of global programmes at the BGCI.
and folded into the organization's general guidelines for botanic gardens interested in conservation. She expects a draft of the European version of the guidelines to be available by August.
and trees that visitors see at botanic gardens. Hulme says some showy but potentially invasive species
says David Harris, deputy director of science at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, UK."
Weigel s team went to herbaria in Kew Gardens, outside of London, and at Germany s Botanische Staatssammlung in Munich and sequenced DNA preserved from the dried leaves of infected plants dating between 1845 and 1896.
Amazon plant discovery could yield green cash cropin a farmer s garden deep in the Peruvian Amazon in August 2012, Rainer Bussmann and Carlos Vega struck oil.
Bussmann, an ethnobotanist at the Missouri Botanical garden in St louis and Vega, head of the Institute for Sustainable Local Development and Andean Amazon Cultural and Biological Conservation (INBIAPERU) in Trujillo, Peru, had stumbled on a species unknown to science.
he transplanted it to his garden. By the time Bussmann and Vega met Rodriguez he and his family had developed a taste for the roasted seeds
But Ina Vandebroek, an ethnobotanist at the New york Botanical garden, says that it is typical of the field."
based in Bonn, Germany, in partnership with the Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew,
because the lawn-and-garden company developing it did not use Agrobacterium or any other plant-pest DNA to engineer the grass.
100 botanical gardens to'chaperone'plant relocations.""Our proposal makes this type of approach more responsible,
an ecologist at the Missouri Botanical garden in St louis. Smith presented a preliminary version of the plan this week at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and is working on a more detailed proposal with colleagues at Botanical gardens Conservation International, headquartered in Richmond, UK.
The researchers recommend that endangered species collected in the wild should be relocated to botanical gardens in stages,
moving between gardens following a dispersal path that would be considered an evolutionarily realistic response to climate change.
Botanical gardens already move species around, although not in a coordinated fashion that takes climate change into consideration.
Managers at the gardens have the horticultural expertise to provide ongoing screening for invasiveness, Smith says.
And moving species from garden to garden could prove simpler than shifting them from one wild place to another,
"It s intriguing to think that botanical gardens offer the infrastructure, already in place, to pull that off."
Smith has begun to map the distribution of botanical gardens to determine the capacity for chaperoned assisted migration in different parts of the world.
The world s botanical gardens are concentrated in eastern North america and eastern and Central europe, with sparse or nonexistent coverage in some notable biodiversity hotspots, such as the Andes mountains
Smith has attempted also to understand how botanical gardens around the world will shift into different climate zones as the planet warms,
His calculations, based on the worst-case scenario for warming produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, show that the climate regime for the Chicago Botanic Garden in Illinois in 2075 will resemble today s conditions at the Missouri Botanical garden.
They aim to release a more detailed proposal in October at the 5th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Dunedin, New zealand,
--but these pityingly limited rulers once built the great Pyramids of Giza the Temple of Artemis the Colossus of Rhodes the Acropolis the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon the Gate of Ishtar and in more modern times:
#How To Turn Garden Beets Into A Drum Machine People conduct electric charges and so do vegetables.
Living in a walled garden beats the hell out of being trapped in a mausoleum.**sheesh!
The pickled cucumbers bell peppers and okra are from our garden laid down in rows beside the solar tarps.
and walk in the Gardens of Eden. I can't even tell how long I've been offnet!
They flower every year at Tresco Abbey Gardens in England on the isles of Scilly. www. tresco. co. uk/what-to-do/abbey-garden/plant april. aspx We've had them here
What's the difference nutritionally between a Mcdonald's salad an Olive Garden salad a bagged salad from the produce section of the grocery store
and one grown in your own garden? Nothing. They're exactly the same nutritionally: lots of fiber vitamins and minerals.
Through more tests at the Morton Arboretum near Chicago the researchers were able to determine that knots in trunks were structural weak points in trees
Those artists'renditions of futuristic skyscrapers with trees growing in rooftop gardens or mid-building parks.
To compensate for a dearth of space in the units themselves the architects plan to create communal areas including a roof garden;
I have a garden area I share with the main house and my slave quarter building has WINDOWS multiple WINDOWS.
the Telegarden or Telerobotic Garden which also combined the'net and agriculture. Established in 1995 (and in operation until 2004
or so) by a team of artists and engineers the Telegarden let user-community members manipulate a robotic arm set over a tabletop garden.
and care in the garden without knowing that it really existed? Why did they think it existed
Sometimes it s the work of external forces as with the atomic testing that gave rise to Godzilla in the original 1954 film and the glowing ooze that turned garden-variety turtles into man-size martial artists.
and is just getting more complex says Marris author of the book Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.
But commercial tomato plants have a very different look from the backyard garden variety which can grow endlessly under the right conditions to become tall and lanky.
Hire an 18th century hermitfor those who are wondering what to buy the person who has everything this Christmas a University of Leicester academic has suggested one of history's most bizarre garden accessories:
The author of The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Garden Gnome Professor Campbell has investigated the little-known history of the ornamental hermit a tradition with its roots in Ancient Rome but still present in the form of the humble garden gnome.
In the 18th century it was highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens many
The idea of keeping an ornamental hermit in one's garden is an eighteenth-century phenomenon but
And of course one could continue the tradition at a much cheaper cost with the purchase of a simple garden gnome.
The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Garden Gnome by Professor Gordon Campbell is published by OUP.
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