Showing posts with label botanic gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botanic gardens. Show all posts
Monday, June 12, 2017

ANBG impressions

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Although it is winter, and although it was foggy the first half of our visit, the Australian National Botanic Gardens always have something ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Blue Mountains Holiday Trip, part 2

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Today our goals were the stone pagodas of Garden of Stones and Wollemi National Parks as well as Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens. The lands...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Germany trip 2016, part 7: Singapore Airport

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Back in Australia! We again flew via Singapore, and this time I had the camera with me. Above the Butterfly Garden in the airport. It i...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Germany trip 2016, part 6: Hamburg Botanic Garden

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Today we visited the Botanic Garden of Hamburg, Germany. Not, however, the old, well-known park Planten un Blomen , but the gardens at the s...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Germany trip 2016, part 5: tropical crop plants

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Today we visited the Universität Kassel Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen (greenhouse for tropical crop plants) in Witzenhausen. ...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Germany trip 2016, part 4: Göttingen

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I studied biology and obtained my doctorate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, but I had not visited the town in quite a few years. ...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Botany picture #227: Gossypium sturtianum

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Gossypium sturtianum (Malvaceae), the Northern Territory state flower, from our recent weekend visit to the Australian National Botanic ...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Botany picture #221: Hibiscus divaricatus (and two other miscellaneous photos)

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Close-up of the flower of Hibiscus divaricatus (Malvaceae), taken today at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The five stigmatic b...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

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We spent the Easter Weekend in Melbourne, visiting family. One of the attractions of the city we visited was the Royal Botanic Gardens. They...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Australia's National Arboretum, part 2: Bonsai collection

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As mentioned in yesterday's post on the National Arboretum , the National Bonsai and Penjing Collection (NBPC) was one of the main reaso...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Australia's National Arboretum, part 1

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Today we had a family outing to the National Arboretum of Australia, as we had been meaning to do for quite some time already. The arboretu...