Friday, May 26, 2017

Thursday, May 25, 2017

This Cockroach May Pollinate Flowers Extremely Rare Find

In the scrub lands of central Chile, wild roaches are feeding on pollen and may even be helping plants to propagate. They may be reviled as a scourge of urban living, but most of the world's cockroaches don't scurry anywhere near a city.A whopping 99 percent of the 4,500 known cockroach species...

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Top End cut flower grower is calling on next gen to get involved in the industry

Jan Hintze has been involved in agriculture for nearly 40 years in the Top End, with the last 20 years dedicated to growing flowers.Now in her 70s, Ms Hintze said the youngest person she knew in the industry was in their 50s."I put mostly this down to it is so much hard physical work that children...

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Flowers for Vegetable Gardens

I have always been more of a practical gardener than an idealist. Although it is nice to have an array of pretty bedding flowers I am not inclined to invest the time or space for such luxuries: for me each plant has to earn its place in the garden and be productive in some way. This doesn’t mean that my vegetable plot is devoid of flowers however. Flowers play an important role in any organic garden...

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Google's new visual recognition app can identify flowers you don't know

Google (GOOGL, GOOG) CEO Sundar Pichai announced a visual recognition product called the Google Lens on Wednesday at its Google I/O developer conference.The Lens feature, which will be used on phones, sees what the viewer sees through the camera and provides information about the object. In a...

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Perennial flowers that bloom all summer

Long-blossoming perennials make life simple for nursery workers who hunger for shading all late spring. Undoubtedly, through cautious choice and arranging, consistent succession of blossom can be accomplished utilizing a large number of plants that bloom for however a concise time. Yet, having enduring blossoms that sprout all late spring gives us more space for mistake. Simply plant these...

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Plants for Europe launches new ranunculus at National Cut Flower Centre - Caroline PLouff

Plants for Europe's Graham Spencer says there has been supermarket interest after he used the National Cut Flower Centre to promote breeder John Fielding's new robust Rococo Ranunculus. Rococo Ranunculus has been bred in England by Fielding and launched last week at an event at the National Cut...