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29, 2015
Honeysuckle
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on direct hyperlinks):
The
perennial vine Lonicera
hispidula
is a species of honeysuckle
known as pink
honeysuckle
and, less often, California
honeysuckle.
It is a low-elevation woodlands shrub
or vine found on the
West
Coast of the Canada and the United States.
Lonicera hispidula is cultivated by specialty
native
plant plant
nurseries as an
ornamental
plant for
drought-tolerant
wildlife
gardens and
natural
landscaping on the West Coast of North America. The flowers
attract
hummingbirds; other birds eat the fruits.
Description
Lonicera hispidula has distinctive leaves growing
opposite on the stems, the uppermost pairs fused at the bases to
surround the stem. At the end of the stem grow attractive pink
honeysuckle blossoms. It bears spherical red fruits which are edible
but bitter.
Subspecies
There are two subspecies:
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Lilacs
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hyperlinks):
The genus is most closely
related to
Ligustrum
(privet), classified with it in Oleaceae tribus Oleeae subtribus
Ligustrinae.
[6]
Lilacs are used as food plants by the
larvae
of some
Lepidoptera
species (an order of insects that includes moths and butterflies,
both called lepidopterans - including
Copper
Underwing,
Scalloped
Oak and
Svensson's
Copper Underwing and
Saras.
Via Arabic
ليلك
lilak from Persian
نیلک nilak
meaning "bluish".
[7]
The genus name
Syringa is derived
from Greek
syrinx,
meaning a hollow tube or pipe, and refers to the broad
pith
in the shoots in some species, easily hollowed out since ancient
times to make
reed
pipes and
flutes.
[8]
The English common name "lilac" is from the French
lilac.
[9][10][11]
A pale purple colour is generally known as
lilac
after the characteristic color of the flowers of many kinds of lilac,
especially
Syringa
vulgaris.
They are small
trees,
ranging in size from 2 to 10 metres (6 ft 7 in to 32 ft
10 in) tall, with stems up to 20 to 30 centimetres (7.9 to
11.8 in) diameter. The
leaves
are opposite (occasionally in whorls of three) in
arrangement,
and their
shape
is simple and heart-shaped to broad lanceolate in most species, but
pinnate in a few
species (e.g.
S. protolaciniata, S. pinnatifolia). The
flowers
are produced in spring, each flower being 5 to 10 millimetres (0.20
to 0.39 in) in diameter with a four-lobed
corolla,
the corolla tube narrow, 5 to 20 millimetres (0.20 to 0.79 in)
long; they are
bisexual,
with fertile
stamens
and
stigma in
each flower. The usual flower colour is a shade of purple (often a
light purple or
lilac),
but white, pale yellow and pink, and even a dark burgundy color are
also found. The flowers grow in large
panicles,
and in several species have a strong fragrance. Flowering varies
between mid spring to early summer, depending on the species. The
fruit is a dry,
brown
capsule,
splitting in two at maturity to release the two winged
seeds.
[3][4][5][9]
Lilacs are popular shrubs in
parks
and
gardens
throughout the temperate zone, and several
hybrids
and numerous
cultivars
have been developed. The term
French lilac is often used to
refer to modern
double-flowered
cultivars, thanks to the work of prolific breeder
Victor
Lemoine. Lilacs grow most successfully in well-drained soils,
particularly those based on chalk.
[12]
They flower on old wood, and produce more flowers if unpruned. If
pruned, the plant responds by producing fast-growing young vegetative
growth with no flowers, in an attempt to restore the removed
branches. Lilac bushes can be prone to powdery mildew disease.
The wood of lilac is close-grained, diffuse-porous, extremely hard
and one of the densest in Europe.[
citation
needed] The sapwood is typically cream-coloured and the
heartwood has various shades of brown and purple. Lilac wood has
traditionally been used for engraving, musical instruments, knife
handles etc.[
citation
needed] When drying, the wood has a tendency to be encurved
as a twisted material, and to split into narrow sticks.
Lilacs are often considered to symbolize love (see
language
of flowers). In
Greece,
Lebanon, and
Cyprus, the lilac
is strongly associated with
Easter
time because it flowers around that time; it is consequently called
paschalia.
In a poem by
Walt
Whitman called
When
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Lilacs are often a reference
to Abraham Lincoln.
Syringa vulgaris is the
state
flower of
New
Hampshire, because it "is symbolic of that hardy character
of the men and women of the Granite State" (New Hampshire
Revised Statute Annotated (RSA) 3:5).
The
Arnold
Arboretum in
Boston,
Massachusetts,
which celebrates "Lilac Sunday" every May. The Arboretum
shows off its collection of over 422 lilac plants, of 194 different
varieties.
[13]
Lilac Sunday is the only day of the year when picnicking is allowed
on the grounds of the Arboretum.
Lombard,
Illinois, called the "Lilac Village", which has an
annual lilac festival and parade in May. The village also contains
Lilacia Park,
a garden with over 200 varieties of lilacs, as well as over 50 kinds
of
tulips.
-
Rochester,
New York, which has held its
Lilac
Festival since 1898, the longest-running in North America. This
celebration is held in Highland Park, which has the most varieties
of lilacs at any single place, many of which were developed in
Rochester.
-
Spokane,
Washington, known as the "Lilac City", which holds an
annual lilac festival and lilac parade.
- Franktown,
Ontario, Canada, holds an annual festival.[14]
- Calgary, Alberta -
4th Street Lilac Festival. This free one day event is the start
up to Calgary's vibrant festival season, and encourages citizens to
shake off their winter blues and reintroduce themselves to the
thriving creative community in our city.
Species and subspecies currently accepted as of July 2014:
[1][3]
Syringa
emodi Wall. ex Royle - Himalayan lilac - northern India,
Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal
Syringa
josikaea J.Jacq. ex Rchb.f. - Carpathian Mountains of
Romania and Ukraine
-
Syringa
oblata Lindl. - Korea, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning,
Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan
-
Syringa
persica L. (syn
Syringa protolaciniata) - Persian
lilac - Afghanistan, Pakistan, western Himalayas, Gansu, Qinghai
-
-
Syringa
pubescens Turcz. - Korea, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jilin,
Liaoning, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan
Syringa
reticulata (Blume) H.Hara (syn.
S. pekinensis) -
Japanese tree lilac - Primorye, Japan, Korea, Gansu, Hebei,
Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia,
Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan
-
Syringa
villosa Vahl - Primorye, Korea, Hebei, Shanxi, Heilongjiang,
Jilin, Liaoning
- Syringa
vulgaris L. - common lilac - native to Balkans; naturalized
in western and central Europe, and many scattered locations in North
America [15]
- S. × diversifolia (S. oblata × S.
pinnatifolia)
- S. × henryi (S. josikaea × S.
villosa)
- S. × hyacinthiflora (S. oblata × S.
vulgaris)
- S. × josiflexa (S. josikaea × S.
komarowii)
|
- S.
× laciniata
(S. protolaciniata × S. vulgaris)
- S.
× persica
(S. protolaciniata × unknown)
- S. × prestoniae (S. komarowii × S.
villosa)
- S. × swegiflexa (S. komarowii × S.
sweginzowii)
|
Last
weekend I was on a short four day vacation stay with Meryl and Allan,
some of my relatives and their family, in Mission,
BC. On the afternoon of Thursday, July 23, 2015 I took the West
Coast Express Train from Waterfront
Station (Vancouver) out,
and returned early Monday morning, July 27, 2015, again by the West
Coast Express Train. Gracious hosts that they are, Allan both picked
me up and dropped me off at the Mission
City Station, a train station. On Friday, July 24, 2015 Allan,
in his 80s, joined me in the District
of Mission gymnasium, in there 3,600 sq. foot weight room, for
my regular exercise program. Meryl fed me so well that I'll need
to pick up on my exercise routines.
On
Saturday, July 25, 2015, Allan took me to visit Westminster
Abbey,
a community of Benedictine
in Mission,
British
Columbia, established in 1939 from the Abbey
of Mount
Angel, Oregon.
The abbey is home to the Seminary
of Christ the King
and is a member of the Swiss American Congregation within the
Benedictine
Confederation.
The abbey's official name is the
Abbey of Saint Joseph of
Westminster;
Saint
Joseph is the abbey's patron saint.
Since
Allan is of Scottish ancestry, I think he was pleased that District
of Mission has its own tartan, presented to
Mission,
British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia by the
Mission
Weavers and Spinners Guild October 18, 1999, the tartan (
Tartan
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) was created to reflect the
diversity of natural and industrial history of the Mission area.
Mission also has its own
Coat
of Arms and Flag
composed, according
to classic heraldic laws, of the shield of arms arranged to fit a
horizontal shape.
The
Official
Flower of Mission
is the Caitlin Rhododendron. It is a
beautiful pink scented rhododendron that was created by Dr. Jim
Marcellus through the crossing of the
Fortune
(
Images) and
Hummingbird
(
Images)
Rhododendrons,
and named after his granddaughter. It was presented to council by
Communities
in Bloom on April 2, 2007.
The
Caitlin
Rhododendron is registered with the
Royal
Horticultural Society. It is a large shrub, very dense
and its leaves are quite small, oval in shape and the flowers are a
stunning, brilliant pink colour. Perhaps its outstanding
characteristic is its lovely scent and when the plant is in full
bloom, around the middle of April, the blooms cover the whole shrub
from the base to the top. It takes the plant-lover’s breath away
with its beauty.
A special thank you to the
Fraser
South Rhododendron Society for allowing us to use this
spectacular picture of the
Caitlin
Rhododendron taken by the late Dr. Margaret ‘Mike’ Trembath.”
Needless
to say, I had my cameras at the ready for a close-up photoshoot of
some of the Honeysuckle and Lilac Flowers around Mission, British Columbia. Finally, the first steady rain arrived in over two months,
albeit not enough to recharge the water reservoirs or aquifers.
Mission maintained its Level 4 water conservation alert. Conditions
are so dry in B.C's Lower Mainland, Sunshine Coast and Fraser Valley
that the provincial government had raised the drought rating to the
highest category — Level 4 — and are warning that if things get
worse, water shortages could affect people, industry and agriculture.
Further water restrictions may come. This
provincial drought rating is distinct from the regional ratings used
by water managers, such as Metro Vancouver — but the change means
further water use restrictions could be imposed in the region, if
necessary (BC's Provincial Drought Rating System is on Table 2: Drought Response Levels Summary, on page 14 of this .pdf file).
Bats, butterflies and hummingbirds are pollinators of both
Honeysuckle and
Lilacs.
-
-
-
A
pollinator is the biotic
agent (
vector)
that moves
pollen
from the male
anthers
of a
flower to
the female
stigma
of a flower to accomplish
fertilization
or 'syngamy' of the female
gametes
in the
ovule of
the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grain. A pollinator
is different from a
pollenizer,
which is a plant that is a source of pollen for the
pollination
process.
Anthecology
is the scientific study of
pollination.
Insect pollinators include
bees,
not only
honey
bees but solitary species and
bumblebees;
other insects including
pollen
wasps (Masarinae) and ants; a variety of flies including
bee
flies and
hoverflies;
lepidopterans,
both
butterflies
and
moths; and
flower
beetles.
Vertebrates, mainly bats and birds, but also some non-bat mammals
(
monkeys,
lemurs,
possums,
rodents)
and some reptiles (
lizards
and
snakes)
pollinate certain plants. Among the pollinating birds are
hummingbirds,
honeyeaters
and
sunbirds
with long beaks; they pollinate a number of deep-throated flowers.
(
Cycads, which are
not
flowering
plants, are also pollinated by insects.)
- Scientists estimate that there are many thousands of animal
pollination partners, ranging from invertebrates (animals without
backbones) such as bees, butterflies, wasps, flies, and beetles to
vertebrates (animals with backbones) such as birds, bats, and other
mammals. In North America, most of the pollinators are insects like
bees, butterflies and beetles, or vertebrates like hummingbirds and
bats. But elsewhere in the world pollinators can be primates (like
lemurs), Australian possums, arboreal (tree-dwelling) rodents, or
even reptiles like the gecko lizard. ~ Smithsonian
Education.org
Grazing
has two distinct meanings. First,
grazing is a method of
feeding in which a
herbivore feeds on
plants
such as
grasses, or
other multicellular organisms such as
algae.
Many small selective
herbivores
follow larger grazers, who skim off the highest, tough growth of
plants, exposing tender shoots. For terrestrial animals, grazing is
normally distinguished from
browsing
in that grazing is eating grass or
forbs,
and browsing is eating woody twigs and
leaves
from
trees and
shrubs.
[1]
Grazing differs from
true
predation because the organism being grazed upon is not generally
killed. Grazing
differs from
parasitism
as the two organisms do not
live
together, nor is the
grazer necessarily so limited in what
it can eat (see
generalist
and specialist species).
Water
animals that feed for example on algae found on stones are called
grazers-scrapers. Grazers-scrapers feed also on microorganisms
and dead
organic
matter on various substrates.
[2]
Second,
grazing is a method of
agriculture
in which domestic
livestock
are used to convert grass and other
forage
into meat, milk and other products.
With
more modern cameras and computers, since 2013, I now do most all of
my photographic and videographic work in Hi-Definition
HD – 1080p
(pixels). Many of my followers, however, do not have a Hi Speed
Internet connections and the images may be pixilated
– see also Wikipedia example. Or, rasterised
(blurry). There are a few ways of overcoming the problem:
Once
the video slideshow is started, at the bottom right of any YouTube
video click on the gear icon and change the quality of the image
from HD 1080p (pixels), down to, say 144p, then try increasing it
slowly.
-
- Both
the governments of Alberta
and British
Columbia have made commitments to place Hi Speed Internet
through-out their respective provinces; as is the case in most other
North American jurisdictions.
You may notice that some of my photographic studies and slideshows
are quite dim. I prefer taking photographs at
dawn, dusk or at
night without artificial light; or when it is wet.
Hopefully, you will also see something that you have never seen
before.
This is the 8th
in my series of photographic slideshows for 2015 taken in and
around Lynn Valley, Lower Lynn and North and West Vancouver, on
Vancouver, Canada's North Shore; and in Mission, Canada:
6. Lilies
Slideshow (4:05 minutes), North Vancouver, BC, Canada –
Posted on July 18, 2015
5. Orange
& Wet Day (2:36 minutes), North Vancouver, BC, Canada –
Posted on
Saturday,
July 11, 2015
4.
Begonia
Slide Show (2:15 minutes), North Vancouver, BC, Canada –
Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2015
3. Passion
Flowers at Dusk (3:01 minutes),- My Passion Flowers
are up, in full bloom, and very beautiful, North Vancouver, BC,
Canada – Posted on Wednesday, June 3, 2015
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Lindsey Stirling is one of the biggest artist development
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