Category: Botany
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Video: Build a Bouquet of Local Flowers
Summer 2011
Diane Szukovathy from Jello Mold Farm in Washington state's Skagit Valley puts together a bouquet of locally-grown flowers and offers tips to gardeners on building their own bouquet of blooms. Diane and her husband Dennis Westphall grow cut flowers. ...
Categories: Architecture and design, Botany
Tags: Video, Sustainability, Gardening, Flowers
Tracking a cattle disease
Winter 2008
In addition to consulting botanists at the Ownbey Herbarium, retired veterinarian Clive Gay and range scientist Ernie Motteram have dipped into the specimen drawers and expertise at the James Entomology Collection. They have been working with c...
Categories: Botany
Tags: Museums, Herbarium
Value of the collections
Winter 2008
"[The collections] answer to a lot of people," says Rich Zack. "They answer a lot of questions, and at times they can generate funds, but it's not a steady stream of funds. Often you're answering small questions from hundreds of people." Any one ...
Categories: Biological sciences, Botany
Tags: Museums
Coping with Climate Change
Winter 2008
Several years ago, scientists noticed that recent herbarium specimens had been collected earlier in the season than specimens from decades past. Since most plants are collected when they are in flower, that meant they were flowering earlier. The ...
Categories: Biological sciences, Botany
Tags: Museums, Herbarium
Sparingly introduced in waste places
Spring 2008
Although scientists have been aware of biological invasions at
least since the mid-1800s, when Charles Darwin noted the rampant
spread of European species in South America, only recently has the
scientific community recognized the broader threat i...
Categories: Botany
Tags: Invasive weeds, Cheatgrass