Some seeds also use this mechanism which is called “chilling hours”. Until a seed has accumulated a certain number of chilling hours, it won’t germinate. This keeps seed from germinating in the middle of winter. Each species of seed requires a different number of chilling hours and most ...
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That white fluffy stuff is actually milkweed floss. It is the milkweed plant's way of spreading its seeds and the plant "goes to seed" each fall usually around October. The floss acts like a little airplane for the seeds of the milkweed plant. It is picked up by the breeze and blown...
Last week I used a photo of a Black Swallowtail Butterfly in a post, which prompted one of my favorite Ecosystem Gardeners, Cindy Brown Ahern, to post this comment on Facebook: This is such a beautiful creature, and YOU can do something as simple as planting parsley,...
Sahotra Sarkar Abstract This paper argues that biodiversity should be understood as a normative concept constrained by a set of adequacy conditions that reflect scientific explications of diversity. That there is a normative aspect to biodiversity has long been recognized by environmental ...
This paper argues that biodiversity should be understood as a normative concept constrained by a set of adequacy conditions that reflect scientific explications of diversity. That there is a normative aspect to biodiversity has long been recognized by en
of pollen-filled seed pods on the ground every Spring, and if I stay out more than ten minutes, I will get red itchy eyes. I practically live on eye drops during April and May. The only other plant that would trigger such a reaction was milkweed, and it doesn't grow in this area...
One popular milkweed plant favored by monarchs is the scarlet milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)--sometimes referred to as the bloodflower. Perennial Nectar Flowers for Monarch Butterflies coneflower image by David Dorner fromFotolia.com Bee balm (Monarda), an attractive plant to the monarch, is ...
“How much further to Rohan?” asked Bill the horse. “Or is it farther to the Rohan?” “You're an idiot,” said Jesse the horse. The Vagaries of Further vs Farther But wait! What if the kind of distance is ambiguous? What if your protagonist is a secret agent in training, and ...