Heaths woods and meadows are in most ways no more'natural'than suburban gardens or inner-city waste grounds.
or whether consumers are willing to limit their intake to local seasonally available goods. It did not include citizen-based production from allotments urban gardens etc.
#Coral reef gardens found thriving in Gulf of Mainenew research has found a type of coral reef called Octocorals previously thought to have diminished off the east coast of the US in the Gulf of Maine has been discovered recently surviving in dense coral garden communities in more than one location.
The paper'Octocoral gardens in the Gulf of Maine (NW Atlantic) by Peter Auster et al published in Biodiversity studied Octocorals a type of fragile deep-sea coral reef that grow
A recent expedition in July this year to the western Jordan Basin and Schoodic Ridge regions of the Gulf of Maine revealed an initial report of impressive octoral gardens.
The coral gardens were defined as areas where octocorals were among the dominant fauna and occurred at densities higher than surrounding patches.
1 colony m used in ICES to define coral garden habitat. Some Paramuricea placomus colonies were over one metre in height from the base showing both yellow
Together with colleagues from The New york Botanical garden they sequenced characteristic parts of the DNA of these conifers
At the Botanical garden's Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory they worked with Garden scientist Dr. Damon Little to generate DNA barcodes for all of the individuals
In addition they created a living Podocarpaceae collection in the Botanic Garden of the Ruhr-Universitã¤t
which promotes the protection of rare and endangered species. The Bochum team propagate the species and pass them on to other botanic gardens worldwide.
while holding on to the branch of a tree within the Lumbini Garden midway between the kingdoms of her husband and parents.
#Tasmania home to first alpine sword-sedgeresearchers from the University of New england (Australia) and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney (Australia) have discovered a high-altitude species of sedge
Karen Wilson (Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney) described this new species in the open access journal Phytokeys.
and can be found mainly in pine at night hidden away in pine forests crawling on rocks or sitting on stone garden walls.
and other common garden birds balance the competing risks of predation and starvation'said Damien Farine.'
'Winter is a tough time for small garden birds as not only is there less natural food available
By reallocating some of those purchases to monarch-friendly plants people would be able to contribute to the conservation of the species as well as maintain a flower garden said Oberhauser.
or having been transplanted into their gardens. There is no direct evidence yet of over-extraction but sustainability studies are needed at population level to insure the protection of this beautiful species. Dracaena kaweesakii is thought to be endangered through having a limited distribution destruction of limestone for concrete and extraction of trees for gardens comments Dr Wilkin
about the conservation status of the new dragon tree species. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Pensoft Publishers.
#Flower research shows gardens can be a feast for the eyes #and the beesare our favourite garden flowers attractive to hungry visitors such as bees and butterflies to feed on?
Researchers at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at the University of Sussex have completed one of the first scientific studies to put the business of recommending pollinator-friendly garden flowers on a firmer scientific footing.
Gardens are more important than ever as a source of food for a wide variety of insects who feed on the nectar
and other insects by providing attractive flowers in their gardens for insects to feed on. To do this they often rely on#oepollinator-friendly#plant lists.
The study funded by the Body shop Foundation involved repeatedly counting flower-visiting insects over two summers as they foraged on 32 popular summer-flowering garden plant varieties in a specially planted experimental garden on the University s
campus (each variety in 2 1x1m beds) with two smaller additional gardens set up in year two to check the generality of the results.
and his Phd student Mihail Gaburzov was that garden flowers attractive to the human eye vary enormously (approx 100-fold) in their attractiveness to insects meaning that the best plants for bees
#oeour trial is by no means exhaustive#we looked at a small selection of the thousands of plants you can find in a typical garden centre.
#oehelping bees in your garden is a no-brainer. Flowers that attract bees are just as easy to grow
Anyone can do this in their own garden or park or even when shopping for plants in a garden centre.#
The Asian Giant hornets are armored dangerous heavily predators says Ken Tan the first author of the paper who also works at the Chinese Academy of Science's Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.
and closer to home--to locally grown produce from neighboring farms or even from their own restaurant-owned gardens.
Urban gardens are built often on previously unused lots increasing the beauty and value of the neighborhood.
In light of the benefits urban gardens are popping up across the nation. But the challenges that organizers and growers face must be understood
and addressed if urban gardens are to become widespread and even profitable. Several obstacles face planners and growers including soil contaminants water availability and changes in climate and atmospheric conditions.
It may then be possible to develop new crops that are adapted to urban gardens and customized for the area.
Urban gardens then provide a natural laboratory for studying how these climatic and atmospheric changes will affect plants and crop yields in the future.
Leafcutter ants for example carry bacteria that help prevent other fungi from contaminating their fungal gardens.
But David Dilcher of Indiana University Bloomington and Mikhail S. Romanov of the N. V. Tsitsin Main Botanical garden in Moscow show that it is closely related to fossil plant specimens from the Lower Cretaceous period.
and grass in a garden compost pile uncertainties exist about the nature and fate of the degradation products released during the breakdown.
and Missouri Botanical gardens Dr Chris Stapleton turned his attention to the bamboos of Africa. He found that the features of the mountain bamboos were significantly different to those of Asia
manure zeolite lime or biofertiliser as well as coal waste alone and regular garden soil. Plants grown in the coal waste with added biofertiliser achieved nearly twice the weight
and yield of those grown in garden soil or in coal waste with added manure and more than twice the weight and yield of those grown in coal waste with added zeolite.
Hong Liu of Florida International University and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Thomas R. Rainwater of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service;
Staff at the UCSB biology greenhouse had the foresight to contact the U s. Botanic Garden in Washington D c. to secure pollen from its plant (nicknamed Mortimer in social media that bloomed July 21.
and are marketed now for use in people s gardens. The trade is large and widespread:
while at Newcastle University and is based now at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. We know a lot about the benefits
We have to cope with native slugs in our gardens and crops but this research shows they can be equally damaging in natural systems.
which we see in many gardens in Denmark. It's ready to spread throughout the Danish countryside.
which we have helped along by planting in our gardens. Here it was found in The english countryside.
The despised weed makes herbicide to kill neighboring plantscontrary to popular belief crabgrass does not thrive in lawns gardens and farm fields by simply crowding out other plants.
Chui-Hua Kong and colleagues point out that crabgrass is not only a headache for lawns and home gardens but also a major cause of crop loss on farms.
It is estimated that around half of UK householders feed birds in their gardens. This equates to around 50-60 thousand tonnes of bird food provisioned each year
Only 1%of women used insect repellents during pregnancy. 10%of pregnant women used outdoor insecticides such as in gardens or vegetable plots and yards with plants:
The less educated the more pesticidesmultiparous women born in Spain with a lower level of education who have a garden
#Bioenergy potential unearthed in leaf-cutter ant communitiesas spring warms up Wisconsin humans aren't the only ones tending their gardens.
While these fungus gardens are a source of food and shelter for the ants for researchers they are potential models for better biofuel production.
We are interested in the whole fungus garden community because a lot of plant biomass goes in and is converted to energy for the ants says Frank Aylward a bacteriology graduate student and researcher with the Great lakes Bioenergy Research center.
Building on Aylward's previous study of these gardens the researchers relied on genome sequencing provided by the U s. Department of energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI)
In addition to sequencing the genome of Leucoagaricus gongylophorous the fungus cultivated by leaf-cutting ants the researchers looked at the genomes of entire living garden communities.
in fact the gardens are also home to a diversity of bacteria that may help boost the fungus's productivity.
and gardens less susceptible to invasion she says. Clearing everything from a weedy spot in the yard can be cathartic
but in the long run homeowners are rewarded with lovely gardens and healthy lawns. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Saint joseph's University.
and North america and had been preserved in the herbaria of the Botanical State Collection Munich and the Kew Gardens in London.
and Shaohua Li the director of the Wuhan Botanical garden at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
#Community gardens may produce more than vegetablespeople who participate in community gardening have a significantly lower body mass index--as well as lower odds of being overweight
It has been shown previously that community gardens can provide a variety of social and nutritional benefits to neighborhoods says Cathleen Zick lead author of the study
But until now we did not have data to show a measurable health benefit for those who use the gardens.
That finding was not surprising as researchers had expected that spouses would benefit from eating food produced in the garden and perhaps from helping out with the gardening activities.
However as the percentage of Americans living in urban areas continues to grow this initial study validates the idea that community gardens are a valuable neighborhood asset that can promote healthier living.
and food choices including food grown in the community garden. Gardeners were drawn from a pool of individuals active with Wasatch Community Gardens (WCG) a 20-year old nonprofit organization located in Salt lake city. WCG provides a network of urban gardens located throughout the local area
as well as classes programs and events focused on gardening and eating locally. After gaining assurance from the gardeners that they had no concerns regarding WCG's involvement with the study WCG staff provided names
The other Johns Hopkins team aims to improve the irrigation of vegetable gardens that provide nutrition and income for families in remote rural communities in South africa.
Funding was provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural history's Powdermill Nature Reserve in Rector Pa. a Botany-In-Action Fellowship from the Phipps Botanical garden and Conservatory in Pittsburgh an Ivey Mcmanus Predoctoral Fellowship
Co-author Professor Phil Stevenson from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the University of Greenwich's Natural resources Institute said:
#School-based kitchen gardens are getting an A+:+New study highlights benefits of for both children
Through community-based kitchen garden programs particularly those with dedicated cooking components schools are successfully introducing students to healthier foods.
A group of investigators from the University of Melbourne and Deakin University recruited a total of 764 children in grades 3 to 6 and 562 parents participating in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.
and includes 45 minutes per week in a garden class with a garden specialist and 90 minutes per week in the kitchen with a cooking specialist.
and cook 3-or 4-course meals based on available fresh produce from the garden. Different dishes prepared each week included handmade pastry bread and pasta salads curries and desserts.
For school gardens this study emphasizes the other half of the equation to growing the food in school gardens
Funding was provided by Nancy Abraham the African Wildlife Foundation Beneficia Foundation Busch Gardens CITES-MIKE Columbus Zoo Conservation International Daniel K. Thorne Foundation Diane
#Excavation set to shed new light on Londons Victorian pastfrom a clay smoking pipe to Neolithic flint a 19th century garden has been revealing some of its secrets to an archaeological team from London's Kingston University.
whether she could find traces of a garden marked out on early maps. The Seething Wells site in Surbiton is of historic significance
A garden on a site like this might tell us more about the people who lived
The team expected several small metal garden tags they discovered to bear the names of plants.
what feeds the world said Friedman who also directs the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard. If flowering plants weren't here humans wouldn't be here.
It's the same reason why sparsely planted gardens wilt in hot dry conditions while more densely planted gardens survive.
Mutually beneficial soil shading becomes more important than competition for that soil moisture when it becomes scarce.
which they cultured in their lab using seeds of the garden-variety rice plant Oryza sativa.
#How does your garden glow? Nature's ability to create iridescent flowers has been recreated by mathematicians at The University of Nottingham.
Researchers from the Illinois Natural history Survey and the Morton Arboretum have been examining the potential role of herbivores on the invasion of nonnative plant species in diverse plant communities.
Scientists from the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew which manages the Millennium Seed Bank have shown how by using advanced mathematics they can boost the overall diversity of the seed bank by targeting a'hit list'of particular species
and she adds It is primarily found in gardens or under scattered debris but also in greenhouses and out in the open nature.
They are brought in with imported vegetables garden supplies or tiles. Together with her colleague from GÃ rlitz Dr. John M. C. Hutchinson and a colleague from the United states Department of agriculture (USDA-APHIS) the scientist has studied the distribution of these mollusks
and Laura Martinez-Suz from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London set out to ask this question by using DNA-based taxonomy.
Garden-variety staph are common bacteria that can live in our bodies without consequence. When they do cause infection most aren't life threatening
and wreaking havoc in the fields and gardens of smallholder farmers. The plant is an aggressive invader.
With a lower supply of coffee in the market prices rise and that favors fraud because of the economic gain says research team leader Suzana Lucy Nixdorf Ph d. In 2012 a study from the U k.'s Royal Botanic Gardens
Remarkably in 2012 field botanists Hank Oppenheimer & Keahi Bustament with the Plant Extinction Prevention Program and Steve Perlman of the National Tropical Botanical garden found a population of these unique trees in a remote
Researchers from North carolina State university are looking to rain gardens as one way to remediate the water quality concerns caused by urban stormwater.
Rain gardens--also known as bioretention cells--are depressions in the landscape that trap stormwater runoff so microbial activity filtration/adsorption
Typically the gardens are excavated backfilled with a filter bed substrate then planted with vegetation that helps to remove pollutants.
The research team constructed 12 rain gardens filled with one of three filter bed substrates. The gardens were planted with 16 plant species
and then irrigated with stormwater. The substrates used in the experiments included a sand-based substrate (sand) composed of 80%washed sand 15%clay
The researchers determined that 11 of the 16 species used in the experiments grew well in the rain gardens.
The UW Arboretum long a refuge for Wisconsin's native plants and animals is confirmed the first site for Amynthas agrestis an invasive worm believed to have arrived in the United states from its native range in Japan
Williams and members of the arboretum staff confirmed the earthworms'presence in the fall of 2013 checking regularly in the spring to see
That appears to be the case according to Brad Herrick arboretum ecologist and research program manager.
but we are still trying to get a handle on the extent of their distribution at the arboretum Herrick says.
That's our concern in the arboretum and anywhere they turn up Herrick says. Our native plant communities developed without the presence of all these hungry worms.
According to Herrick the arboretum DNR and other researchers will be testing potential control techniques. But careful cleaning of equipment and quarantine is their first line of defense.
and we're hopeful we can find a way to protect the arboretum from these worms
#How gardens could help dementia carea new study has revealed that gardens in care homes could provide promising therapeutic benefits for patients suffering from dementia.
) the systematic review also found that gardens could offer welcome spaces for interactions with visitors helping to stimulate memories for dementia patients
We think that gardens could be benefitting dementia sufferers by providing them with sensory stimulation and an environment that triggers memories.
if gardens are to be useful in the future care of dementia patients. These include understanding possible hazards that a garden might represent to residents
and ensuring staff have time to let residents enjoy an outdoor space to its full potential.
There's a lot we don't know about how a garden's design and setting influences its ability to affect wellbeing yet it's clear that these spaces need to offer a range of ways of interacting--to suit different people's preferences and needs.
if the disease ever makes the leap from nurseries to home gardens. Crape myrtle is so close to Southern gardeners'hearts that they endlessly debate such topics as how to spell its name (variants include crepe myrtle crape myrtle
Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in a deep-space habitat tending gardens and growing food for astronaut explorers.
These include the U s. Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the northern Gulf of mexico Bermuda and Bonaire all of
Identifying and using salt-tolerant garden roses is important in landscapes where soil salinity is high
As Director of Munich's Botanic Garden she was in a position to remedy this situation.
Some 16000 plant species from diverse climate zones are cultivated in the Garden and Renner and her doctoral student Constantin Zohner have taken advantage of this unique resource to monitor the timing of leaf-out in nearly 500 different species of woody plants.
Significantly observations the past two springs of 1597 woody plants in eight botanical gardens in the U s. Canada Germany and China suggest that species differences in leaf-out times could impact the length of the growing season
While previous researchers observed leaf-out for a limited numbers of species in a single location this study uniquely obtained observations of the same species from gardens around the world.
Notably the order of leafing out of species was almost the same in different gardens
At the Arnold Arboretum in Boston some gooseberry and honeysuckle shrubs start leafing out Mid-march
The data was obtained by walking around each of the botanical gardens once a week and recording the appearance of first leafing out for all of the species. Leaf-out time was considered
Along with Primack the team included Zoe Panchen (Carleton University) Birgit Nordt and Albert Dieter-Stevens (Berlin Botanical garden) Elizabeth Ellwood (Florida State U.)Susanne
Renner (U. of Munich) Charles Willis and Charles Davis (Harvard U.)Robert Fahey (Morton Arboretum) Alan Whittemore (U s. National Arboretum) and Yanjun Du
The animals sometimes nicknamed killer slugs are known to do their fair share of damage in fields and gardens.
The U-M studies were supported by the Matthaei Botanical garden a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
#Gardens help cancer survivors cope, heal and growa diagnosis of breast cancer in 2010 hit Susan Rossman pretty hard.
If cancer survivors started a vegetable garden would they eat more vegetables? We found they not only ate more vegetables they also got more exercise.
airborne P. infestansspores are drifting through home-garden tomato crops. If you think genetically modified crops are dangerous'frankenfoods
#Social media garden is first step in creating emotional buildingsa Twitter-reactive garden could provide a prototype for the future development of'smart'buildings that can adapt to our emotional state.
The garden consists of an articulating raw steel structure which sits vertically and horizontally and is controlled by people's responses via Twitter.
The STAN project will be making its first public appearance at the Garden Up horticultural event in Sheffield on 7th and 8th june 2014.
The garden will react to activity on Twitter when people use the#gardenup hashtag translating this information into movements of the garden's mechanical landscape.
Richard M Wright Senior Lecturer in the Lincoln School of architecture developed the construct together with fellow academic Barbara Griffin and students Amy Hayeselden Nicholas Sharpe and Liam Bennett
The garden essentially points to a future in which buildings could modify themselves in response to monitoring our emotional state via social media.
and vegetables from the playground garden--and to get children to eat more healthfully. But is it working?
and vegetables--farm-to-school programs school gardens --and we know that exposure to foods helps develop preference for those foods
Dr. Alan Paton Kew Royal Botanical gardens England; Dr. James A. Macklin Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Canada;
in gardens in all four locations. The southern imports do better across the range than locals Schmitt said.
#Best way to rid a garden of pesky snails? Use your strong throwing armthe new study published May 16 in the journal Physica Scripta has used statistical models to show that simply killing the snails you find in your garden offers little advantage
if you want to remove them completely. According to the researchers gardeners should revert to damage limitation as their results proved that snails are part of larger colonies that live in the garden
and come and go as they please using a homing instinct. As opposed to simply killing a snail throwing it over the wall is pretty effective
if snails are moved out of the garden by a distance of 20 meters or more the likelihood of those particular snails finding their way back home into the garden was almost zero.
Co-author of the study Professor David Dunstan from Queen Mary's School of Physics and Astronomy said:
or irregularly visiting a garden is many times greater than the number actually present at any one time in the garden.
As such gardeners shouldn't be setting out to eliminate their gardens of snails. To achieve such a feat would require the gardener to rid the whole neighbourhood of snails
A recent poll by the Royal Horticultural Society showed that one-in-five gardeners in the UK have thrown snails into their neighbours'gardens.
when a small suburban garden was being refurbished. Around 120 plants were planted in the early summer
Rather than kill the snails the owners systematically removed them from the garden for six months.
and was thrown then five meters over the garden wall into wasteland. All snails that returned to the garden were given an extra mark on their shell
whenever they were found. A total of 416 snails were marked and thrown over the wall 1385 times during the study.
Forty-six children aged between nine and ten years old took part in a twelve week school-based project to create a garden.
As well as building the garden the children also had devoted lessons to cooking plants and growth (in science) and writing (in literacy.
Plant a rain garden. A rain garden is landscaped a area planted preferably with wildflowers and other native vegetation that soak up rainwater from the roofs driveways or other impervious surfaces.
Rain gardens can be very diverse biomes full of life. They offer a great opportunity to add beautiful water loving plants to the landscape
Davis offers four simple tips for starting your own rain garden: 1. Location location location--Pick a site for your garden where runoff from your driveway or roof gutters can be diverted into it
or that tends to collect water. Your rain garden should be at least 10 feet away from building foundations underground utilities
and septic systems. 2. Don't go too deep--Make your garden between four and eight inches deep.
If it is too deep the garden might pond water too long and can resemble a big hole in the ground.
On the other hand a shallow rain garden will need a lot of surface area to provide enough water storage to filtrate runoff from larger storms.
Make sure to have at least one inlet for water to flow into the garden and one outlet (an area slightly lower in grade where water can exit) for water to filter out.
and installed a rain garden on campus with only a line level and some string--no fancy laser levels
Once excavated add at least four inches of good organic compost to help with plant growth. 4. Choose plants carefully--There are many plants that do well in rain gardens or occasionally flooded areas.
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