“Golden Duranta or Sheena’s Gold, is a fast growing small evergreen shrub with bright yellow foliage. It is native to Central America. They are commonly cultivated across the world for creating low and clipped formal hedges and also as ornamental plants. Although, the plant is a popular choice for hedges, its leaves and berries are […]
Month: June 2016
Golden Dewdrop
“Golden Dewdrop is native to Mexico, parts of South America and the Caribbean. It is a small tree growing to 20 feet in height. The flowers are blue in colour and the fruits are yellow or orange in colour. The blossoms attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The tree is considered an invasive species in some parts […]
Ginkgo trees
“1,400 year old Gingko tree attracts visitors with its perfect golden carpet! Its magical autumn foliage has become a center of attraction after its leaves form a stunning golden carpet at this temple. With fan shaped leaves, the ginkgo is a large deciduous tree that will be completely bare and leafless in the heart of […]
Giant Cedar
“Giant Cedar is a large tree native to North America. It can reach heights of around 70 meters or 230 feet and live for over 1000 years. One of the oldest specimen was 1460 years old. Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Kakawaka’wakw) believed the power of this tree was so strong that a […]
Golden Cup Oak
“Golden Cup Oak is an evergreen tree native to North America. It can reach a height of 80+ feet depending on the environment. It has a deep and extensive root system with road cuts exposing roots up to 24 feet. The acorns take 18 months to mature and are one to three inches in length. […]
Growing chairs? British designer grows trees into furniture!
Designer Gavin Munro of Full Grown Ltd has taken a complete rethink of how wood is used as a material. His production method upends traditional furniture manufacturing processes that involve cutting down trees, trucking logs, sawing the wood, then gluing them back together, generating a lot of industrial and ecological waste in the process. In […]
Garlic Vine
“Garlic Vine is native to South America and found in many countries including India. Yes, it does smell like garlic and can grow to 10 feet in height. It flowers twice a year and the flowers start off purple with a white throat and change to a lighter shade of lavender over time. You can […]
Garden Hyacinth
“Garden Hyacinth is native to Southwest Asia. It was very popular in the 18th century and over 2,000 cultivars were grown in the Netherlands, its chief commercial producer. Another reason why its also called Dutch Hyacinth. The flowers are fragrant and can be found in shades of red, blue, white, orange, pink, violet and yellow. […]
Fortingall Yew tree
“Britain’s oldest tree has started to change its sex! The Fortingall Yew tree is estimated to be around 5,000 years old. It can be found in Perthshire, Scotland and for hundreds of years it has been recorded as ‘male’ as it produces pollen, whereas female yews produce red berries. In a rare phenomenon baffling scientists, […]
Flooded forest
“Flooded forest is a forest that is submerged with freshwater, either seasonally or permanently. It is also called freshwater swamp forests and often found along the lower reaches of rivers and around freshwater lakes. In the Amazon Basin of Brazil, a seasonally flooded forest is known as a várzea and igapó where varzea refers to […]