Showing posts with label flower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flower. Show all posts

4/5/12

greenhouse-ing

This weekend consisted of spending some quality time in the University of Maine greenhouses while Josh (and the rest of the UMO Horticulture Club) prepared for the Bangor Garden Show. That means that I got to explore some cool plants while everyone else was working hard.

To the right are the giant leaves of a banana tree. Unfortunately, even in a greenhouse, these banana trees can only produce fruit about once a decade..and this year was not the lucky one. It's still a spectacular plant though!



This is an agave cactus! Yes, the famous origin to the over-used and infamous agave syrup (which is not as healthy as many believe). I wish I had a good shot of the entire plant...it's huuuge and extremely crazy looking. Go look one up.




 More agave.


Water faucets.


University of Maine tag.
























One of Josh's cultivated plants. I think it's called a blue veronica, or something like that.

Lastly, another cactus. They have a lot of different cacti, but I liked this one the best.

12/6/11

simple brown

Be simple today and don't do anything at all.

4/23/11

4/4/11

rainy day daffodil



Found this daffodil outside of MIT laboratories on my walk to Cambridge the other day. He's been living in my room since, keeping me company on the past couple of gloomy days. Daffodils are great friends.

2/14/11

gerber

Happy Valentines' Day!

12/23/10

je suis...

Weeeell, first picture.. self portrait from this summer. There, now you know me. And dandelions are my favorite flowers.