Thursday, March 27, 2014
I learned something new today
Day 2, the bouganvilleas seem to be recovering with extremely minimal leaf loss. Hopefully it'll be fully recovered by the weekend.
This unnamed plant I was talking about yesterday is called a Canna plant.
The red and yellow flowers they give out when they're happy are called, Canna Lilies.
Labels: aha, awesome, cool, discovery, garden, horticulture, nature
@ 9:17 PM ---> Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Repotting Done
I got to transfer half of the plants I collected from different points of time last year into the newly installed plant boxes (thanks to our all-around handyman).
These are the Santan plants (Ixora grandiflora Ker) that I salvaged from my lola's place in Bulacan before it was torn down and renovated to a gas station. A variegated Bouganvillea plant and a lily-type of plant that was previously salvaged by our former maid thrown out into the street somewhere. In between the Santan plants are the creeping wall plants I also got it Bulacan.
This is the yellow Bouganvillea flowering plants I got from the Manila Seedling Bank early summer last year. Its present condition after repotting has me worried. Hopefully it will live and pick up tomorrow.
Edited (7:54 pm): The condition the tree is in, I just learned, is called a transplant shock coming from the disturbance of the roots. There's nothing much I can do about it now except to tend to it as best as I can. I just pray it won't lose as many leaves as both trees try to recover. Ergh.
These are the Santan plants (Ixora grandiflora Ker) that I salvaged from my lola's place in Bulacan before it was torn down and renovated to a gas station. A variegated Bouganvillea plant and a lily-type of plant that was previously salvaged by our former maid thrown out into the street somewhere. In between the Santan plants are the creeping wall plants I also got it Bulacan.
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This is the yellow Bouganvillea flowering plants I got from the Manila Seedling Bank early summer last year. Its present condition after repotting has me worried. Hopefully it will live and pick up tomorrow.
Edited (7:54 pm): The condition the tree is in, I just learned, is called a transplant shock coming from the disturbance of the roots. There's nothing much I can do about it now except to tend to it as best as I can. I just pray it won't lose as many leaves as both trees try to recover. Ergh.
Labels: aaahh, awesome, cool, garden, horticulture, nature, news
Thursday, January 02, 2014
It's a Jolly Holiday in Antarctica
This was the picture from the i09 article, Strange Historic Photos From Antarctica and Other Kingdoms of Ice that caught my eye as something quirky without meaning to, I guess. Either the penguin doesn't care about the music it's hearing fom this stranger standing away from him or her or it's probably too scared to move. Or both.
But what if the penguins were swayed by the music? What if some birds showed some reaction and inexplicably danced to the music? Not like the ones in "Happy Feet" though. Ugh.
And then there were six:
That was fun.
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| Gilbert Kerr, a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition plays the bagpipe for an indifferent penguin during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904 |
But what if the penguins were swayed by the music? What if some birds showed some reaction and inexplicably danced to the music? Not like the ones in "Happy Feet" though. Ugh.
And then there were six:
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Labels: aaahh, animated gifs, art, awesome, comedy routine, entertainment, funny stuff, movies, nature, new
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Lightning bolts struck around the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain near southern Osorno city in Chile on June 5, 2011.Check this site for more pictures.
The volcano in the Chilean volcanic chain, which was dormant for decades, erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday, belching ash over 6 miles (10 km) into the sky, as winds fanned it toward neighboring Argentina, and prompted the government to evacuate about 35,000 residents, authorities said.
* Related: Why Volcanic Eruptions Can Spark Lightning
Thursday, July 02, 2009
"Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer!" the latest viral video to hit the intertubes sounds like the title of a B-movie (you can read the initial account here) but Gizmodo, the gadget blog, finally posted a report about the findings as released by DeepSeaNews.com who sent the video to Dr. Timothy S. Wood (an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association) who had this to say, to quell the panic:
Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.
Ok, so they're Tubifex worms (said to inhabit organically polluted waters). But what if it's a ruse? What if it's really one growing mass of unknown lifeform that escaped the government's clutches? When will we start calling Mulder and Scully?!
Labels: awesome, cool, curios, discovery, nature, new, uh-huh
Monday, August 25, 2008
Finally found a copy of the ad I like so much. Boom De Ah Dah! Boom De Ah Dah! Boom De Ah Dah! Boom De Ah Dah!
Labels: aaahh, awesome, cool, cute, discovery, funny stuff, music, nature, reminiscing
Sunday, August 17, 2008
This was taken along the shores of the gorgeous beach of Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte more than two years ago.
Labels: art related, awesome, nature, reminiscing
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Long Road Home
This is part of the backlog of photographs I took between 2007 and early 2008 I've been uploading to my DA page. I couldn't decide between this colored copy and the black and white one, eventually the latter won after a day's worth of deliberating (the monochromatic version looked more dramatic). This was a very close second so it's still worth uploading.
* That's my friend, Rollan walking ahead after we spelunked down one of the deep caves of Sagada January last year.
Labels: art related, barkada, nature, reminiscing
Saturday, January 26, 2008
