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Sparkle in the Rain
Nature always sparkles when it rains. The light reflects of the round rain drops and the water magnifies the features of the leaves and petals, bringing out the colours and micro details. All these photos were taken in and around our garden and the meadow by the Utuhina Stream In Rotorua, New Zealand
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How catnip gets cats high
One of the stranger aspects of the modern human-pet relationship is that many cat owners recreationally dose their pets with a psychoactive drug. I'm talking, of course, about catnip. Catnip is a bizarre phenomenon for a few reasons. It's the only recreational drug we routinely give to animals, and though it basically makes them freak out — rolling on the ground, drooling, and mashing their face into wherever the catnip was sprinkled — it has essentially no effect on us.
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Even Armageddon has a silver lining, say scientists studying dinosaur extinction
Even Armageddon can have a silver lining, according to a new discovery about what followed the massive meteor impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Around 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometre wide asteroid or comet smashed into the Earth off Mexico's Yucatan peninsular, producing a crater 150 kilometres across.
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How Might We Grow Plants In Space?
I've never stopped to think about how we might grow plants in space. I've only really thought about those enormous geodesic domes that you see in sci-fi films like Silent Running, but I've never...
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Macro Magic
The magic world of macro from our garden, rain and flowers look fascinating close up.
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Plants Can Tell When They're Being Eaten
Eating a leaf off a plant may not kill it, but that doesn't mean the plant likes it. The newest study to examine the intelligence (or at least behavior) of plants finds that plants can tell when they're being eaten - and send out defenses to stop it from happening.
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The Loneliest Plant In The World
Millions and millions of years ago, the world was full of strange looking trees. Now, one of these tree species has dwindled to a single male plant who is desperately in need of a mate.
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Plants Know When They’re Being Eaten and They Don’t Appreciate it
Vegetarians and vegans pay heed, new research shows plants know when they’re being eaten. And they don’t like it. That plants possess an intelligence is not new knowledge, but according to Modern Farmer, a new study from the University of Missouri shows plants can sense when they are being eaten and send out defense mechanisms to try and stop it from happening.
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The high-stakes world of rare-plant theft
The theft of endangered and rare flowers has led botanical gardens to go to extreme measures to protect their plants, locking them down with cables and installing CCTV. But is this enough to preserve such species?
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How Dangerous is Devil's Helmet?
A gardener died after apparently coming into contact with Aconitum, a poisonous plant known as Devil's Helmet
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Roses and raindrops
Roses are beautiful flowers, That come in bright colours and look great in any garden, Roses love coffee dregs from coffee machines, These roses are from my and our neighbours garden, most are floribundas, the fourth one is a rock rose, same Rosa family but different species
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Hallucinogenic Plants May Be Key to Decoding Ancient Southwestern Paintings, Expert Says
Dozens of rock art sites in southern New Mexico, recently documented for the first time, are revealing unexpected botanical clues that archaeologists say may help unlock the meaning of the ancient abstract paintings.
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How Genetically Engineered Gardens Could Replace Airport Security Checkpoints
The excruciating irritation of going through airport security could one day be as pleasant as walking through a garden. A genetically engineered garden, perhaps, but a garden nonetheless.
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Monarch butterflies could be declared an endangered species. Here's what that means.
Monarch butterflies are vanishing. Over the last 20 years, fewer and fewer of them have been making the long journey down to Mexico to survive the winter. By one count, their numbers have shrunk as much as 90 percent.
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Secrets of the orchid mantis revealed – it doesn't mimic an orchid after all
In his 1879 account of wanderings in the Orient, the travel writer James Hingston describes how, in West Java, he was treated to a bizarre experience: I am taken by my kind host around his garden, and…
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Botanisk Have | Johns fotosted
by John N. Jensen
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Flowers: A timelapse
By Thomas Blanchard.
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The Mysterious Genetics of the Four-Leaf Clover
Like every other trait on every other living thing, a clover's lucky fourth leaf sprouts from DNA. But understanding the clover genome won't necessarily help you find one.
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An argument for why we should be eating weeds (the edible kind)
What is the first food that comes to mind when you hear "foraged"? My guess is that a mushroom came to mind. While it's true that most mushrooms are grown in the wild, there's an abundance of other wild plant foods that are much easier to find and identify. Just because these wild plants are out there, does that mean we should eat them? My colleagues and I of Berkeley Open Source Food (BOSF) are arguing yes.
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