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Quarter Century of Collecting Seeds From Around the World Safeguards Them From Extinction https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/quarter-century-of-collecting-seeds-from-around-the-world-safeguards-them-from-extinction/…

Quarter Century of Collecting Seeds From Around the World Safeguards Them From Extinction
After 25 years of diligent work, an English botanic gardens is ready to face whatever reality climate change may throw at us.

🍄‍🟫 Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/03/fungi-finds-uk-citizen-scientists-make-rare-pink-and-purple-discoveries

[Apropos Felsen in der chinesischen Gartenarchitektur: ein rascher Einblick]
https://www.lanseichina.com/blogs/inspire-through-words/rockeries

7 stones used in Chinese classical gardens as rockeries
There is no Chinese classical garden without stones. The inanimate stones are endowed with meaning far beyond real rocks by traditional Chinese Zen, philosophy and aesthetics. When the ancients built gardens, they gave the rockery a nice name - "掇山" （Picking mountains). Stone selection is the first step in crafting roc

Michael Hurley - "Broken Homes and Gardens" (2025)
Thanks, Snock.
#NowPlaying #MichaelHurley #vinyl

Last morning in Aberdeen, had a nice suburban walk to take a peek at the Rubislaw Quarry and the Johnston Gardens. Aberdeen seems quite livable, nice houses and mellow traffic.

I try to protect my garden. Like many gardens there are vermin - such as rats - that damage, even destroy, the beauty and use of my garden.
I offer no excuses when I remove those vermin from my garden, usually by killing them.
I do have some sympathy for them should the traps not finish the job and they squeak in alarm as I approach to take their lives. But those squeaks do not deter me.
Our world, our nation, our neighborhoods are gardens. There are people who undermine …

« Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites »
Very good paper and research.
VSAT vendors used to love their walled gardens: pseudo-standard DVB-S2 implementations, broken encryption everywhere, and zero cooperation on security, all to protect their proprietary turf.
The high cost of VSAT-style infrastructure and GEO satellite capacity was another major reason vendors avoided investing in security and interoperability.
Will this change? I…

Downward facing lily flowers at the Botanic Gardens visitor center
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

Douro Valley hiking day 2. #hiking #portugal

Blue Dasher dragonfly resting on a blade of grass. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. June, 2024. #descansogardens #bluedasher #dragonfly

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Audioasis
Golden Gardens:
🎵 Extrasolar Heartbeat
#GoldenGardens
https://mysummerasagoth-motionpicturesoundtrack.bandcamp.com/track/extrasolar-heartbeat
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Irip91a4f9YfKmH2vwaH8
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0K6DuvFuPp4kdHoKyn22Ml
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Percy Grainger, Bournemouth Sinfonietta & Kenneth Montgomery:
🎵 Country gardens
#PercyGrainger #BournemouthSinfonietta #KennethMontgomery

Day 9 - Windy
I slowly woke up to the morning sun pouring into my tent. My bag is packed, my bike is set, and I’m ready for my last breakfast in HillerŸd. One last stroll through the Frederikssund Gardens before I say goodbye to my host.
The weather gods listened to me regarding the rain, but they really fucked me up with the wind—42 km of headwind! And for anyone who says that Denmark is flat, then Pamela Anderson is flat too! While I was fighting with the wind with lots of open…

Fenner Brockway, an exuberant sculpture in Red Lion Square Gardens, London.

"Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media"
#SriLanka #SocialMedia #Plants

Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media
In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List pronounced the towering Doona ovalifolia tree “extinct in the wild.” Known locally as pini-beraliya, the species lingered only as a single cultivated specimen in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya. For years, that lone tree stood as a melancholy reminder of what had been lost. The species’ unlikely […]

The Living Library of Trees: Mapping Knowledge Ecology in the Arnold Arboretum
Johan Malmstedt, Giacomo Nanni, Dario Rodighiero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00114 https://

The Living Library of Trees: Mapping Knowledge Ecology in the Arnold Arboretum
As biodiversity loss and climate change accelerate, botanical gardens serve as vital infrastructures for research, education, and conservation. This project focuses on the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, a 281-acre living museum founded in 1872 in Boston. Drawing on more than a century of curatorial data, the research combines historical analysis with computational methods to visualize the biographies of plants and people. The resulting platform reveals patterns of care and scientific o…

Day 8 - One night, two nights
This place… how can I say it? I think I’ve been here a day too long. HillerŸd Castle and its gardens are the highlight of this location; they are beautiful, that’s a fact. But besides that, this place is so boring. It’s so boring that I decided to go swimming and relax in a sauna, which I shared with four fat Danish men complaining about their wives or something.
Maybe staying at this place for one night and then moving on to the next location would…

I'm using ChatGPT so much as a tourist this trip. Today's example: where can I go on a walk from my hotel? It found me a nice a promising suburban garden I never would have found on my own. Also got the wrong direction (it's west, not east) but it was enough to find my way.

🌴 Satellite study reveals 6.5 million hectares of 'hidden' oil palm across Africa
#africa

Satellite study reveals 6.5 million hectares of 'hidden' oil palm across Africa
Researchers have identified 6.5 million hectares of previously unrecorded oil palm growing wild, semi-wild and in gardens, across Africa—an area three times larger than all African commercial plantations combined.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
GARDENS:
🎵 Turning Tables
#GARDENS
https://thisisgardens.bandcamp.com/track/turning-tables
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xYq0sISWTWQ2XXj3UXyXU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Frederick Delius, BBC Concert Orchestra & Martin Yates:
🎵 The Walk to the Paradise Gardens
#FrederickDelius #BBCConcertOrchestra #MartinYates

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Trad., Sally Maer, Sally Whitwell & Sally Whitwell:
🎵 The Salley Gardens
#Trad #SallyMaer #SallyWhitwell
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fXQxosOYngxu3jAXxt8S9

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Percy Grainger, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle:
🎵 Country Gardens
#PercyGrainger #CityofBirminghamSymphonyOrchestra #SirSimonRattle

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Trad. English, Percy Grainger, London Symphony Orchestra & Ryan Bancroft:
🎵 Country Gardens
#TradEnglish #PercyGrainger #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #RyanBancroft
#Spotify

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Benjamin Britten, Matthew Barley & Matthew Barley:
🎵 The Salley Gardens
#BenjaminBritten #MatthewBarley
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bZSg3EzyqE2NLg6tnmciu

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Rebecca Clarke, Susie Allan & Roderick Williams:
🎵 Down by the Salley Gardens
#RebeccaClarke #SusieAllan #RoderickWilliams
https://open.spotify.com/track/1nBCAWYzrSE59N8bfrgxO8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & Vladimir Ashkenazy:
🎵 Autumn Gardens (3rd mvt)
#EinojuhaniRautavaara #HelsinkiPhilharmonicOrchestra #VladimirAshkenazy