Tropical Paradise


Tropical Paradise of Made Wijaya

Rosarium


Cy Twombly The Rose at Gagosian Gallery


New York’s Roses, Home to Root Ann Raver NYTimes


A Rose by Any Name: The Little-Known Lore and Deep-Rooted History of Rose Name by Douglas Brenner, Stephen Scanniello


Bullet Proof Rose by Tobias Wong at Citizen Citizen

Flora


Interesting new ad by Chris Cunningham, more well known for his avant garde music videos for Aphex Twin and Bjork, for Gucci's new perfume Flora.

In the Woods


In the Woods with Bryant, Longfellow and Halleck by John A Hows

Narcissus


Narcissus, a thing a of beauty? |Green Bytes The journal of The Horticultural Society of New York

First Daffodils 2009 Around the world and in your town!Daffodil Festivals

Fragrant Daffodils
| NYBG
The fragrance can range from peppery to citrus.

Divisions and Cultivars
| American Daffodil Society

Hive Minding

Guide To Bee-Friendly Gardens | Urban Bee Gardens| University of California Berkeley



How to Install a Package of Honey Bees

Installing a Bee Hive: A Nervous Beginners' Experiences | TreeHugger








The Hive Mind | Seed Magazine
The selfless behavior of ants, bees, and wasps has confounded scientists for more than a century. Is the question a red herring or the key to a new evolutionary synthesis? By Benjamin Phelan


A Garden of Herbs


A Garden of Herbs by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde.
This book is primarily intended for those who are going to create an old fashioned herb garden, and who want to know how to use these herbs as our great grandmothers did: but even if you buy your herbs at the store, this practical handbook will show you how to make hundreds of teas, syrups, conserves, pies, candied flowers and leaves, wines, sweet waters and perfumes from well known wild and garden herbs that are readily available.

Hussein's Garden


Hussein's Garden by Oliver Wilkins
The Gabaliya Bedouin live in the high mountains of the Sinai peninsular in Egypt......Hussein's garden is typical of the remote walled gardens established and tended by the bedouin for generations.