Drone footage of the Christmas display at the Longwood Gardens conservatory. Then below the jump, Conservatory Manager Karl Gercens talks about his favorite poinsettias.
Garden glow
A 35+ minute tour of the 2020 holiday light display at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Le Voyage de Noel
The holiday windows and tree at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Gardens, updated again x 3
Lovely drone footage of The National Botanic Garden of Wales (Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru) in November (we last checked in with them in June), followed by (below the jump) Dave Forehand of The Dallas Arboretum presenting Behind the Scenes: Autumn at the Arboretum (from September; we had also checked in with them in June). Last we have Heather Titanich, the Hamilton Educational Fellow at the Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens in Devon, Pennsylvania, doing a “fall fruits” walkabout last week (I believe we last checked in with them in April).
Scented Snapshot ~ Buddha’s Hand Citron
I first saw a Buddha’s hand citron in a museum. The graceful, curly tipped fingers of the fruit had been carved during the Qing Dynasty in milk-colored jade. The carving’s complexity was astonishing and I was equally amazed to learn this was not a fantasy object but the representation of a real fruit.
Since seeing that jade art work, I’ve held, smelled, eaten and “drank” Buddha’s hand citron.
In Japan, China and Korea, the fruit’s “fingers” are thought to resemble the boneless, elegant hands of the Buddha…