Episode 5 of 10
In this episode, plantswoman Carol Klein shares her infectious passion for a style of gardening that she thinks is in much need of a revival - the rock garden. She tracks its history from its pinnacle during the Victorian era, visits a community in Bolton who have pulled back their local rockery from neglect, and drops in on an old friend in the Midlands to find out more about this much-maligned gardening style. From her base at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, Carol demonstrates tried and tested techniques for growing success, as she shows us how to plant up a trough with some of her treasured rock garden favourites and gives advice on the best alpine bulbs for containers.
Also in this show, Toby Buckland is on the campaign trail for herb gardens. He discovers how useful herbs have been throughout history, learns that there was no such thing as a weed in Tudor times, meets a woman whose garden is overflowing with herbs we have forgotten, and talks to a botanist who grows plants to capitalise on their unique fragrances and essential oils. Toby also demonstrates how to harvest seeds and grow herbs, whether you have a garden or not, and how to make the most of herbs by storing them in clever and unusual ways
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".
Watch it at http://storyofarmanddavid.filmbinder.com
The life, travels and scientific achievements of Armand David, lazarist missionary, naturalist, botanist, zoologist and ecologist before the time of ecology. Born in the french "Pays basque », lover of nature since his childhood, he becomes a priest and a believer of Darwin's theories, assuming gracefully his contradictions. Hired through his religious hierachy by the Museum of Natural History of Paris he goes to China and explore the flora and animal life and bring specimens, Armand David spends eleven years there, in the second part of the nineteenth century, a very difficult and dangerous period time in China for foreigners. Among his best known achievements, the discovery in a Beijing park where the chinese emperors used to go hunting, of a strange kind of deer later called the "Deer of Father David". He also introduced the giant panda to the occidental world and brought to Europe and America many of our familiar plants and trees. ...
Release Date: 04/14/09
In this mind-twisting thriller from the creators of "The Eye" and "Re-cycle," a dark forest known for causing mysterious deaths becomes the focus of a recent savage murder. A homicide detective, a botanist researching the paranormal, and his tabloid TV reporter girlfriend each embark on a treacherous journey to the heart of this "Forest of Death," where a chilling revelation awaits them all.
Botanist and herbal author D. James Duke continues your tour of his medicinal herb garden. Also includes video of the Bonsai garden at the U.S. Arboretum in Washington,DC.
Bark Hike Leader: Gradey Proctor
Bark-About to Gordon Creek
Saturday, February 10th
www.bark-out.org
February's Bark-About will be a visit to the Gordon Creek Timber Sale, led by long-time Barker, Gradey Proctor. This proposal is located near the Bull Run Watershed and is currently home to a diverse and integral forest.
The Gordon Creek Timber Sale is proposed in public forests administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Gordon Creek sale will log a mix of young and old-growth forest. Bark needs volunteer Groundtruthers to help collect more data on this sale. Please email Amy (at) bark-out.org to find out how to help.
Hike leader Gradey Proctor is a botanist who studies the flora of Oregon's forests and wildcrafts medicinal and edible plants for his community. He is co-founder of Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies and also teaches at the Northwest School of Herbalism.
Due to the cold temperatures, please bring warm clothes and proper footwear (boots or sturdy sneakers). As well, pa...
Bark Hike Leader: Gradey Proctor Bark-About to Gordon Creek Saturday, February 10th
www.bark-out.org
February's Bark-About will be a visit to the Gordon Creek Timber Sale, led by long-time Barker, Gradey Proctor. This proposal is located near the Bull Run Watershed and is currently home to a diverse and integral forest.
The Gordon Creek Timber Sale is proposed in public forests administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Gordon Creek sale will log a mix of young and old-growth forest. Bark needs volunteer Groundtruthers to help collect more data on this sale. Please email Amy (at) bark-out.org to find out how to help.
Hike leader Gradey Proctor is a botanist who studies the flora of Oregon's forests and wildcrafts medicinal and edible plants for his community. He is co-founder of Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies and also teaches at the Northwest School of Herbalism.
Due to the cold temperatures, please bring warm clothes and proper footwear (boots or sturdy sneakers). As well, pa...