Links

Web roundup - St. Basil’s bulb mosaic

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

St. Basil’s in bulbs - His Excellency Mr K.G. Gevorgian, Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, joined forces with staff at Keukenhof, the historic Dutch flower bulb park, to add the final touches to a flower bulb mosaic. The mosaic (21 by 12 m, 65,000 flower bulbs) presents an impression of the towers of St. Basil’s [...]

Bulb ‘naturalizing’ tips (videos and articles)

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Sally Ferguson provides tips for choosing and planting ‘naturalizing bulbs’ — “… those that accommodate themselves fully to their new sites, feeling so at home that they multiply naturally, on their own, increasing in numbers year after year.” Read the article: Say “Hello Old Friend” to Naturalized
Spring Bloomers, Year after Year.
On The Bulb [...]

Web roundup

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

A Tapestry of Color, Unfolding All Year - In her New York Times column, Anne Raver raves about the new four-season border at the New York Botanical Garden designed by two international garden superstars, Piet Oudolf and Jacqueline van der Kloet: “”Observing this latest collaboration unfold from week to week is a revelation for any [...]

Web roundup

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Right, painted allium seedhead in Minns Garden, Cornell University. How-to video coming soon.
Some recent flower bulb web finds:
Watch a landscape evolve before your eyes – online - The Christian Science Monitor reports on the new Seasonal Walk Chronicles website that tracks the new installation at the New York Botanical Garden designed by landscape [...]

Fall bulb-planting confidence

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Soon it will be time to plant spring-flowering bulbs across a wide swath of the northern U.S. And while bulb planting is easy, I remember being very nervous the first time I planted them.
So if you’re new to bulb-planting, why not connect with an experienced gardener and offer to help them plant their bulbs? [...]

Web sem-musings

Friday, February 8th, 2008

After the great seminar experience with Craig, Marcia, and Elly, I just wanted to point out some things of interest. The archive of the seminar is now posted on the NSTA Learning Center site. I’ve also notice some traffic on the K12 page featuring the seminar and the list of resources from the [...]

NSTA web seminar

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Find the links from our web seminar Feb. 7. But more importantly, we want to hear your comments and suggestions for new activities and approaches we can develop to help you teach science with flower bulbs.
Here are the links that we mentioned in our presentation:

Tulip time-lapse [.mov file]
Labryinthos - Labyrinth Resource Center
Journey North - [...]

Labyrinths featured in NY Times

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

In her New York Times Home and Garden column, On the Ground, in the Wild, a Path to Inner Peace, Anne Raver writes about Pamela White’s bluestone and woodchip labyrinth:
“It is a very nice metaphor for life,” Ms. White said. “Because we really are on the same path, just at different times and different ways. [...]