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The cardinal rules of an all-season garden: 1. Plant evergreens to keep things cheery all winter and 2. Plant loads of colorful flowers for eye candy all summer long. We checked in with our friend ...
Chrysanthemum cultivation in Japan began during the Nara and Heian periods (early 8th to late 12th centuries), and gained popularity in the Edo period (early 17th to late 19th century). Many flower shapes, colours, and varieties were created. The way the flowers were grown and shaped also developed, and chrysanthemum culture flourished.
Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the title of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase.
Some crocus species, known as "autumn crocus", flower in late summer and autumn, during (autumnal) rains, after summer's heat and drought. The name autumn crocus is also often used as a common name for Colchicum, [68] which is not a true crocus but in its own family (Colchicaceae) in the lily order Liliales. The plants are toxic, but have ...
Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings ...
Summer 2024 could be remembered not just for its historic temperatures, but for its successive heat waves with unusual geographic reach. Here comes another one. Here comes another one.
Days into August, the competition for “song of summer” is at its peak. The title goes to the most popular song between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to data from radio stations ...
Minoan pottery. The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists in assigning relative dates to the strata of their sites.