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Moths And Butterflies Shift Their Symmetry To Improve Camouflage - Discover Wildlife

Using predation experiments and image analysis, this new study provides insights into how camouflaged prey have evolved.

A symmetrical midline makes the animal more noticeable to predators, who can more easily compare closely symmetrical patterns.

For The Love Of Peat - By John Walker

Peat-free compost for carnivorous plants..." David Morris now grows his cobra lilies and sarracenias successfully in a basic mix of equal parts of Melcourt Growbark Pine, perlite and lime-free grit." (from John's article).

Botanical History On This Day

1679 Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach, the German king who founded Karlsruhe and kept a dazzling garden of 1,200 tulip varieties and 7,000 orange trees, was born; he died, fittingly, while working in his tulip bed.

1805 Samuel Palmer, the English painter whose mystical rural landscapes gave trees distinct personalities, was born; he even built a secret garden studio hidden behind a bookcase door.

1832 Lewis Carroll, mathematician, writer, and creator of Alice in Wonderland, was born; inspired by Oxford’s gardens, he gave us the Tiger-lily’s famous complaint that in most gardens “they make the beds too soft.”

1888 The National Geographic Society was officially incorporated, launching a legacy of exploration, science, and storytelling that would help gardeners and nature-lovers see and understand the world.

1992 Humboldt Botanical Garden was incorporated in Northern California, beginning the creation of a 44.5-acre educational garden near Humboldt Bay devoted to plants, conservation, and regional beauty.

Unearthed Words

A winter bouquet in verse from John Greenleaf Whittier, whose poem “Flowers in Winter” resurrects blossoms in the snow with a wizard’s spell and a gardener’s heart.
Flowers in Winter by John Greenleaf Whittier

Grow That Garden Library™

Read The Daily Gardener review of Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven

Buy the book on Amazon: Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven

Great Gifts for Gardeners

LIBERRWAY Stylus Pen 10 Pack – a rainbow of handy styluses perfect for garden totes, aprons, sheds, and pockets so you can tap your screen without peeling off your gloves.

Today's Botanic Spark

1950 Terramycin & Pfizer were introduced to the world when Science announced Pfizer’s new antibiotic, discovered in Indiana soil and mass-produced by fermentation, turning a small Brooklyn chemical firm into a pharmaceutical powerhouse.

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