Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 30, 2005
Today is the start of the Second International Maple Society Symposium. UBC Botanical Garden is hosting the event, so it seemed fitting to feature one of the maples from the garden to mark the occasion.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 29, 2005
Whenever you see the words alba or album as part of a plant name, you can expect to see something white, most often flower colour. This plant is no exception. The species Colchicum speciosum has a bright pink flower with a white throat. The cultivar ‘Album’, however, has lost the pink pigmentation. It is likely […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 27, 2005
‘Bright Lights’ swiss chard was chosen as an All-America Selection Winner in 1998 and is also the recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 26, 2005
This species of banana is native to Assam, in northeast India. For many years (including when this entry was first written), the scientific name of Musa velutina was used, but Musa dasycarpa seems to have naming priority.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 25, 2005
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides has a number of common names: blue leadwood, dwarf plumbago, leadwort and plumbago, to name four. Whatever the vernacular name you choose to use, at this time of year this plant deserves much appreciation for its bronzy-red foliage and blue flowers (I should note that this photograph was taken in evening sunlight, hence […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 24, 2005
This scene from the David C. Lam Asian Garden was originally taken as an unremarkable colour photograph. It was then transformed into black-and-white using Photoshop’s Calculations command via a 100% overlay of the green and blue channels. I’ve noted it before, but it bears repeating–if you like playing around with black-and-white, the Calculations command is […]
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