Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Thursday, 3 February 2011
under the umbel - series 2 preview
The Umbelliferae
What design! Over a hundred individual flowers radiating from multiple hollow stems. A single plant can attract over 2000 different species of insect. A big family of edible and fatally poisonous plants with specific species identification keys that include flowering times and aroma.
pheasant - series 2 preview
Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus
Despite their beauty, they are regarded as quite clumsy and stupid. But, restricted to only eight seconds in flight because of those impossible dimension, they more often than not escape my rather keen dogs. That takes skill. Introduced from China, a long time ago, they've now become such a familiar part of the English countryside.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
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