Gardening Glory

The late spring gardens are filling in and up with glorious colour.  My favourites, peonies are beginning to open, I can't wait until they are all on full display! Visit my garden page to see how well my container plants are coming along as well as see  some beautiful photos of local wildflowers and ferns …

All life on Earth, in one staggering chart

From Vox "All life on Earth, in one chart What you’ll see below is a kind of tower of life. Each large block of this tower represents a gigaton of life, and the blocks are grouped into broad kingdoms. There are the protists (think microscopic life like amoebae), archaea (single-celled organisms somewhat similar to bacteria), …

I think, therefore…

The inner life of plants arouses the passions of even the mildest-mannered naturalists. A debate over plant consciousness and intelligence has raged in scientific circles for well over a century—at least since Charles Darwin observed in 1880 that stressed-out flora can’t rest. There’s no doubt that plants are extremely complex. Biologists believe that plants communicate… via …