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  1. [#TRADESHOW] #IFEX #Kunming #International #Flowers & #Plants #Expo 2026 will be held from September 18 to 20, 2026, at Kunming Dianchi International #Convention & #Exhibition #Center. As a major flowers and plants #trade #show in #China, the #event is rooted in #Yunnan, the country’s #leading #hub for fresh-cut #flower production and #distribution, and serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #floriculture, #horticulture, #tropical plants, small #berries, and #coffee. cnbusinessforum.com/event/ifex

  2. [#TRADESHOW] #IFEX #Kunming #International #Flowers & #Plants #Expo 2026 will be held from September 18 to 20, 2026, at Kunming Dianchi International #Convention & #Exhibition #Center. As a major flowers and plants #trade #show in #China, the #event is rooted in #Yunnan, the country’s #leading #hub for fresh-cut #flower production and #distribution, and serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #floriculture, #horticulture, #tropical plants, small #berries, and #coffee. cnbusinessforum.com/event/ifex

  3. Growing degree-day (Climatology 🌍)

    Growing degree days, also called growing degree units, are a heuristic tool in phenology. GDD are a measure of heat accumulation used by horticulturists, gardeners, and farmers to predict plant and animal development rates such as the date that a flower will bloom, an insect will emerge from dormancy, or a crop will reach ma...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_

    #GrowingDegreeDay #Seasons #Climatology #PestControl #Horticulture #Agrometeorology

  4. Growing degree-day (Climatology 🌍)

    Growing degree days, also called growing degree units, are a heuristic tool in phenology. GDD are a measure of heat accumulation used by horticulturists, gardeners, and farmers to predict plant and animal development rates such as the date that a flower will bloom, an insect will emerge from dormancy, or a crop will reach ma...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_

    #GrowingDegreeDay #Seasons #Climatology #PestControl #Horticulture #Agrometeorology

  5. [#TRADESHOW] #IFEX #Kunming #International #Flowers & #Plants #Expo 2026 will be held from September 18 to 20, 2026, at Kunming Dianchi International #Convention & #Exhibition #Center. As a major flowers and plants #trade #show in #China, the #event is rooted in #Yunnan, the country’s #leading #hub for fresh-cut #flower production and #distribution, and serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #floriculture, #horticulture, #tropical plants, small #berries, and #coffee. cnbusinessforum.com/event/ifex

  6. [#TRADESHOW] #IFEX #Kunming #International #Flowers & #Plants #Expo 2026 will be held from September 18 to 20, 2026, at Kunming Dianchi International #Convention & #Exhibition #Center. As a major flowers and plants #trade #show in #China, the #event is rooted in #Yunnan, the country’s #leading #hub for fresh-cut #flower production and #distribution, and serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #floriculture, #horticulture, #tropical plants, small #berries, and #coffee. cnbusinessforum.com/event/ifex

  7. [#TRADESHOW] #IFEX #Kunming #International #Flowers & #Plants #Expo 2026 will be held from September 18 to 20, 2026, at Kunming Dianchi International #Convention & #Exhibition #Center. As a major flowers and plants #trade #show in #China, the #event is rooted in #Yunnan, the country’s #leading #hub for fresh-cut #flower production and #distribution, and serves as a #B2B #business #platform for #floriculture, #horticulture, #tropical plants, small #berries, and #coffee. cnbusinessforum.com/event/ifex

  8. * "Weed management
    is Australia's most expensive land management problem – for both the environment and agriculture."

    "Recent research found that the cost of weed management made up more than three-quarters [81 per cent] of the total cost for recovering Australia's threatened species." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/aus

    * Gardeners, pastoralists and the horticultural industry love imported exotic flora. Some are illegal but plant retailers and hobbyists continue to sell these weeds.

    Some have "a dense shrub layer which excludes native plants, mainly on and near the coast, but it also transforms the habitat and, through that, deprives native wildlife of important resources. It's leaving future generations an immense burden because a lot of plants still have a long way to spread." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/bun
    #weeds #InvasiveSpecies #gardens #PlantNurseries #Horticulture #PastureGrasses #regulation #GardenDumping #wasteland #cacti #NativeFlora #flora #biodiversity #wildlife #Bellingen
    Image: Californian desert garden in Bellingen. Cacti pop up everywhere now. Prepared for the Lut desert heat?

  9. #CamdenME - #Workshop#NeedleFelted Mushrooms with Sam Coon

    June 6 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

    Ages 12+
    Class fee: $27 Members, $30 Non-Members
    Materials fee: $5 paid to instructor
    Beginner+

    To Register, please call (207) 236-2239. Registration fees are non-refundable. Children under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.3

    Description:

    "Whether used as a lovely sculpted display, an ornament, or even as a pincushion, needle felted mushrooms are a fun project to create for all levels: those starting out, and those already familiar with the process. Class instruction will include wool types used, needle safety precautions and proper use, how to create a form using core wool, and adding exterior details with #DyedWool. Examples will be provided, such as fly agarics, boletes, chanterelles, and russulas. Students will be able to complete 1-2 mushrooms by the end of the class session, depending on the size and details.

    "Sam Coon is a self-taught #FiberArtist, and has been making felt since being introduced to both needle felting and wet felting in 2009.

    "Much of her inspiration is gleaned from the natural environment, particularly patterns, colors, and shapes. From there, various types of items are created including vessels, wall art pieces, sculptures, jewelry, and wearable felted items that are nuno felted. In these art forms, she uses wool fibers that have not been spun or woven, such as Merino or Corriedale. In many instances, fabric, silk and viscose fibers are incorporated to change the textural quality of the felt and for added dimension.

    "What particularly stands out the most to her, when working with wool to make felt, is that the sculptural qualities of wool are impressive, making creative possibilities seemingly endless. Along with working in the studio, she also regularly teaches needle and wet felting classes at varying locations and age groups.

    "This workshop is generously co-sponsored by Camden Riverhouse Hotel.

    "#Merryspring is your community nature center offering #WalkingTrails, cultivated #gardens, #wildlife, and #ecology and #horticulture educational programs all year round. The park is located at the end of Conway Road, just off of Route 1 in Camden behind Hannaford Shopping Plaza."

    FMI:
    merryspring.org/calendar/works

    #SolarPunkSunday #FiberArts #Crafting #InspiredByNature #Mushrooms #Wool

  10. 61. Agar that comes from seaweed is used in lab media for, among other things, plant tissue culture. At various times, agar has grown more scarce/expensive due to conditions (including climate change-induced rise in temperature in the marine environment). LBG might actually be helpful in some of this lab media, which would take some of the pressure off agar.

    doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2005 #Carob #History #EconomicBotany #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture

  11. 60. Currently and for some time now, there's been more money in producing carob seeds for locust bean gum (LBG) than in producing carob pulp for its own taste & sugars. Prior to the mid-20th c. another use of LBG (or as it was called then "Tragosol", a trade name) was as a sizing. Sizing something applied to bolts of fabric to keep them stiffer and freer of wrinkles before they're sewn into end-products.
    #Carob #History #EconomicBotany #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture

  12. Spending the weekend in the Alps south of Geneva and seeing lots of hazelnut bushes everywhere! Also persimmon trees, ornamental pomegranates, wild strawberries (of course! :-), plums and apples.

    A veritable fruit bowl here at 1000 metres in the mountains!

    #Horticulture #Hazelnuts #Filberts #FruitCrops

  13. @harrietteann

    Sweet potatoes are soo good!

    *switching on nerd mode*
    Also, we are working here on a very interesting horticultural management system to improve soil health by applying wood residues (e.g. branches from tree pruning). The wood residues increase soil organic carbon and contain also some nutrients. Usually, people would advise against using wood residues as fertilizer (because they contain a lot of carbon, making the other nutrients such as nitrogen unavailable and not letting crops grow), but some farmers found a very nice solution:
    They apply the wood chips and plant directly sweet potato. Sweet potato is a totally rad plant that has cool bacteria around their roots that fix nitrogen and grows perfectly in these soils. After some months, you can harvest a nice amount of sweet potatoes AND have a supernicely regenerated soil for other crops.

    The inventor calls the technique "Carboniato" (boniato is sweet potato in spanish).

    #agriculture #SweetPotatoes #SweetPotato #Horticulture #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Vegetables #SustainableAgriculture #OrganicAgriculture

  14. #PakChoi #plants in 3 gallon pots.
    “Pak Choi” translates to “white vegetable” in Cantonese due to their white stems. Cultivation began in the #YangtzeRiver Delta region & spread to other parts of Asia, thanks to traders & migrating populations.

    Pak choi looks almost identical to bok choy but they're two different plants. Pak choi has darker leaves as it matures. Pak choi stems are white, more visibly so when matured. Bok choy stems are pale green. Pak choi has more of a peppery undertone taste, while bok choy has subtle sweetness. We grow both of these similar plants in our backyard food gardens.

    I have 3 blueberry plants & only one has produced berries so far.

    #Wsanec #WhatsInMyGarden #EdibleGarden #FoodPlants #VictoriaBC #YYJ #ChineseVegetables #VancouverIsland #Zone8 #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #GrowYourOwnFood #garden #Horticulture #PNW #botanical #Saanich #BCgardeners #PlantLovers #AsianGreens #GardeningMastodon #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodSecurity #BerryPlants #FruitsAndVegetables #ChineseVegetables #Brassica #ChineseCabbage

  15. #Delphinium 'Pacific Giants'. Frank Reinelt created a group of hybrids of D. elatum with D. nudicaule in the 1930s, with double flowers dense on the spike. Since then the genetics has regressed closer to the wild forms, so it's a bit hit and miss what you'll get growing from seed. If you want to get dependable results choose one of the named selections grown as clones.
    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

  16. #Pseudofumaria lutea syn #Corydalis lutea, Yellow Corydalis. Another garden escapee that's a weed around here, but I let it self seed cause I love it.

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany