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Update to Plant of the week
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Oct. 10th, 2011 @ 12:46 am
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Images of Lavender for shrub of the week have now been added, and lilies for bulb of the week, on the same link as Cardiocrinum and Impatiens tinctoria in the last entry. The link has been updated.
Thank you Shirley, and thank you Mary!
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Week 2
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Oct. 2nd, 2011 @ 06:00 pm
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We're now into week 2, and our topics for this week include a bulb and a shrub of the week, sites of the week, and recognising trees.
Let's start here with sites of the week. There are some very interesting sites here - do check them out. We have the Cardiocrinum National Collection (relating to one of our plants of the week), The Woodland Trust, with lots of information and activites for children, and The Forestry Commission, again with lots of information including the tree name trail that we can use to recognise trees. There is also Cotswold Garden Flowers, with a wonderful encyclopedia of plants they've grown, and mail order shopping. Bob Brown, the proprietor, is currently writing a regular series for Gardening Which? on plants for places. Finally, there's Special Plants, and Roy Lancaster has an article about this nursery, and its owner Derry Watkins, in this month's issue of the RHS journal, The Garden.
( Sites of the Week )
Then, for Plant of the Week, On Tuesday, Hugh bravely took on Cardiocrinum, the Giant Himalayan Lily, and Judy equally bravely took on Impatiens tinctoria, a beautiful shrubby Impatiens. On Friday, Shirley stepped up to tackle gorgeous lilies, and Mary stepped up to tell us about lovely lavender.
Images are here, at Photobucket:
Cardiocrinum and Impatiens tinctoria; Lilies and Lavender
Please remember that all the images go into the same album, so you may need to page back In between uploading these images, I've also uploaded images for recognising trees, and you will need to go back through the album.
In case you are a bit uncertain how to do that, I'll just explain the layout. Click the link above, and it will take you to the Photobucket album for this year. Above the panel with the photographs, you will see a white bar.
On the left hand side, that bar shows you the number of photographs in the album (129 at the moment).
Then it gives you the option to 'View All', which means that all the images will load onto a single page. This is slower than looking at a few at a time.
Your next option is to view all the images as a slideshow. They will be shown full size, and you can fast forward or reverse.
On the right hand side of the white bar are numbers. These are the page numbers of the album and you can turn over the page, so to speak, by clicking on each number in turn. The images will all be shown as thumbnails - to see any full sized image as I uploaded it, double click on the thumbnail.
It's as easy as that.
Our main topic is Recognizing Trees. I've put up drawings of the different leaves of native trees at Photobucket 0 use the link above. The Trees are in the middle of thr Plants of the Week images. Here is the handout:
( Recognizing Trees )
A huge thank you to those people who hauled in half a forest, so that we could have fun recognizing trees!
Don't forget your homework for next week.
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