… girl was seriously ill—when I got the call for help. A Denver hospital needed living tissue from Thujopsis dolabrata or any of its cultivars within 24 hours to determine if the plant was the cause of the girl’s life-threatening allergic reaction. The girl had been flown in from Japan to be treated at the hospital, National Jewish Health. After I got the call, I looked … the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and occasionally supplied plant samples from the campus gardens to the Texas Poison Control Center. Now, as the Garden’s director of …
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… easy to do at home. Tips to Make Your Own Trees Dazzling Determine if your trees would benefit from cleaning. Whitespire birches are good candidates because they have naturally white stems and …
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… on a cold, leafless winter day. Though this species has a bad reputation for robbing eggs from other birds' nests, squirrels and crows, in turn, raid the nests of jays. There's much to …
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… a corresponding member of the Botanical Society of America; recipient of the Pritzlaf Medal from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the Kew International Medal, the Le Roe Award of the …
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… mower at proper height so that no more than one-third of the grass blades are removed. Refrain from fertilizing lawns until September. Annual white grub damage will begin to show up this month …
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… and put GPS technology to practical use during your visits with our app. Magnolia Information from the Experts 12 Plants for a More Fragrant Garden Forcing Flowering Branches Trees for 2050: …
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… through their roles as pollinators. Pollination refers to the process of transferring pollen from one flower to the reproductive system of another plant, allowing for the fertilized plant to produce seeds, which then turn into offspring. Adult butterflies feed on nectar from plants, and in doing so they carry pollen from one flower to the next. Unlike bees, which obtain pollen from flowers in a relatively short …
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… is part of a research group that's working to collect root pieces and other genetic material from the aspens in the Chisos Mountains of west Texas; the material will allow us to raise the … in Hempstead, Texas. Adam is a plant geek at heart and knows the Chisos Mountains intimately from 20-plus years of exploring there. He put together the collaboration between the Chicago … at the University of Florida in Gainesville, believes that the trees are under stress from the radiant heat of the rocks in which they are growing. When the trees grow to about 25 …
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… going to bloom?” That was the number one question on everyone’s mind, both at the Garden and from visitors. As you know by now, Spike didn’t have the energy to bloom by himself, as we … inside. If healthy enough, we could attempt to pollinate the female flowers with donor pollen from recent titans at the Denver Botanic Gardens and California’s Huntington Library, Art … some of the same people visit day after day! I heard and received so many positive comments from visitors. People said that Spike was part of daily dinner conversations—that they would …
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… both? Hawkmoth pupae (Hyles lineata) Hyles lineata eggs on an Oenothera harringtonii plant From Dr. Skogen’s prior research, we know that floral scent can vary within and between plant … female moths use linalool to lay eggs, then perhaps, in some populations, the plants benefit from not advertising their scent. To test this idea, we needed to conduct behavioral experiments … how Hyles perceive floral scent This summer, along with Victoria Luizzi, a summer REU student from Amherst College, we looked at which plants female moths prefer to lay their eggs on—plants …
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