Photographer Makes Creative Portraits from Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers

Klaus Enrique Gerdes, a New York City photographer, has created a series of original portraits made exclusively from vegetables, fruits and flowers.

Gerdes told the PDN Gallery that the idea for his organic portraits first came to him while working with leaves. ”While I was photographing a human eye that was peeking out amongst hundreds of leaves, it occurred to me that I could actually utilize leaves to construct portraits or masks.” It just evolved from there and he started using fruits, vegetables and flowers. LINK

Learn to Make Paper Flowers!

A demonstration of how to make flowers from tissue paper. Blogged at http://feelingfuzzy.blogspot.com. LINK: Youtube

Straw Bale Garden

Straw bale gardening is a way to create a raised bed garden in areas where you normally couldn't. It is also a great way to raise a bed up high enough for someone who has problem bending or kneeling. I'm going to use a bale as a foundation for a drip to waste hydroponic system. LINK: Youtube

World’s Largest Blossoming Plant

A wistaria vine in Sierra Madre, California has been named as the World’s Largest Flowering Plant by the Guinness Book of World Records. This vine is so big it has its own festival! William and Alice Brugman planted it in 1894 to celebrate the purchase of their new home. The wistaria eventually destroyed the house! 116 years later, it is healthy and sprouts about a million and half blooms every year.

Link to story. Link to festival. – Via: greendiary, Via: Neatotama

Descendants

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Descendants is an animated short film by Heiko van der Scherm about two flowers, and the curiosity and treachery between them. In a manner that reminds me of the rabbits of Watership Down, the flowers are anthropomorphized, but still motivated primarily by the plant life cycle.

Starring Whoopi Goldberg. Run time: 14 minutes, 32 seconds.

Via: Nerdcore, Via: Neatorama

The most beautiful cactus flowers

A cactus is any member of the spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also crop plants. Cacti are part of the plant order Caryophyllales, which also includes members like beets, baby’s breath, spinach, amaranth, tumbleweeds, carnations, rhubarb, buckwheat, plumbago, bougainvillea, chickweed and knotgrass.

The cacti are spine plants that grow either as trees, shrubs or in the form of ground cover. Most species grow on the ground, but there is also a whole range of epiphytic species. In most species, except for the sub-family of the Pereskioideae, the leaves are greatly or entirely reduced. The flowers, mostly radially symmetrical and hermaphrodite, bloom either by day or by night, depending on species. Their shape varies from tube-like through bell-like to wheel-shaped, and their size from 0.2 to 15-30 centimeters.

Most of them have numerous sepals, and change form from outside to inside, from bracts to petals. They have stamens in great numbers. Nearly all species of cacti have a bitter sometimes milky sap contained within them. The berry-like fruits may contain few, but mostly many, seeds, which can be between 0.4 and 12 mm long. LINK

Madagascar Rain Forest & Mouse Lemur Awaken

Watch foot long flowers that bloom in less than a minute, while the Madagascar rain forests awaken. Madagascar mouse lemurs, the world’s smallest primate, lick the nectar of these flowers. LINK

FLOWERS FROM MY SWEETIE

Roses and Flowers I received from ARBYN for my Birthday on 4-22. We had a relaxing evening and ordered food to be delivered so I didn't have to cook. :).

We have been going together for almost five years and have been living together for the past 14 months.

The Gifts of Spring

As the weather warms and mother earth becomes fertile, nature adorns us with her gifts. Here's a sneak peek for those who just can't wait.

Here's a look at some of the beauty spring offers in the form of flowers. LINK

I am patiently waiting for spring to get here so I can go for my walks again. Walks are very relaxing and I love being outdoors.

Valentines Day 2009

Thank-You to my Sweetie and co-blogger (Arbyn) for the flowers and bear on Valentines.

We had crab legs, and later relaxed with a bottle of wine and some cheese. It ended up to be a very wonderful night. :)

Pink Roses

The flowers I got from my sweetie and co blogger (Arbyn)on 1-5-09.