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Burger's Onion: February 2015
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Weird botany and horticulture. Friday, February 27, 2015. Protea and its Cousins. Protea cynaroides in flower at the UConn greenhouses, late winter. The national flower of South Africa, has some of the showiest inflorescences in the genus, easily a foot across from powdery pink bract tip to bract tip. Is one of the few species where mature plants can live through fires; they regenerate from buds on a swollen stem at the base of the plant. A characteristic of Protea. The family Proteaceae includes about 7...
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Burger's Onion: July 2014
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Weird botany and horticulture. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Is known for producing some of the largest, stinkiest inflorescences in the botanical world, so A. ongsakulii. Comes as something of a surprise when it sends up a thumb-sized spathe and spadix, from a plant with leaves just a few inches tall. The flowers have faint spicy sweet smell. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Association of Education and Research Greenhouse Curators. Botanical Society of America. Cactus and Succulent Society of America.
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Burger's Onion: March 2015
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Weird botany and horticulture. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Crocus cultivars blooming in a warm spot; most spring bulbs are still under the snow pack. The weather is slowly warming up, though spring flowers are probably still a good three weeks to a month behind schedule. The bees have been out and about on quite a few sunny afternoons lately, but they're not finding much of anything to eat beyond the Domino. Nectar flow, as it were. The overall colony survival rate still looks like about 70%. After a warm D...
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Burger's Onion: October 2013
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Weird botany and horticulture. Monday, October 14, 2013. Bhut Jolokia' or Ghost Pepper was long considered the hottest pepper in the world. Frost has been late to arrive this fall, but the hot pepper season out in the garden is not going to last much longer. This year I experimented with growing some of the very hottest Capsicum. Cultivars, and using them very cautiously to spice up sauces, stir-fries and burritos. Bhut Jolokia' is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense. Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend'. National ...
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Burger's Onion: September 2013
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Weird botany and horticulture. Friday, September 27, 2013. Sarracenia alata , the Pale Pitcher Plant, cultivated from a collection from Covington, Louisiana. The New England Carnivorous Plant Society is having its 10th annual show this weekend, at Roger Williams Park in Providence. It's a nice time of year for the summer-active carnivores like Sarracenia. More information is on the NECPS website. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Association of Education and Research Greenhouse Curators. Cacti etc Email List.
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Burger's Onion: Mud Season '15
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Weird botany and horticulture. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Crocus cultivars blooming in a warm spot; most spring bulbs are still under the snow pack. The weather is slowly warming up, though spring flowers are probably still a good three weeks to a month behind schedule. The bees have been out and about on quite a few sunny afternoons lately, but they're not finding much of anything to eat beyond the Domino. Nectar flow, as it were. The overall colony survival rate still looks like about 70%. Cactus and Suc...
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Burger's Onion: May 2015
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Weird botany and horticulture. Friday, May 22, 2015. Myrciaria cauliflora fruits, or Jaboticaba. Shows this condition to some extent. Myrciaria in the UConn greenhouses, in about a 20 inch pot. Jaboticaba (sometimes spelled Jabuticaba) fruits are pretty tasty, with sweet, grape-flavored white pulp inside of rubbery, nearly black skins. The skins are a little bit tough, but also edible, with a slightly acrid flavor reminiscent of walnuts. In the greenhouse the flowers of Myrciaria. Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
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Burger's Onion: March: Lion to Lamb Transition Underway
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Weird botany and horticulture. Thursday, March 12, 2015. March: Lion to Lamb Transition Underway. 2015 hasn't had an overly productive maple sugaring season, but it could get better. The home apiary on a warm March afternoon. Things that grow in my yard. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). March: Lion to Lamb Transition Underway. Association of Education and Research Greenhouse Curators. Botanical Society of America. Cactus and Succulent Society of America. Cactus and Succulent Society of Massachusetts.
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Burger's Onion: Spring at Last!
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Weird botany and horticulture. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. The cherry blossoms were out the other week, and this week the apples are in full bloom. The weather has actually been very warm recently (20 F above average temperatures on a few days), so the growing season is catching up rapidly. I'd say that the plants are only a week or so behind schedule at this point, versus a month late back in the maple sugaring season. The other day in Glastonbury, Ct, I ran across some nice patches of Polygala paucifolia.
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