melly
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Post by melly on Aug 23, 2007 21:21:11 GMT
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Post by pinglover on Aug 28, 2007 4:58:20 GMT
Looks as if you have some very happy plants there. Please share more about them and add as many details as possible. There are quite a few people out and about trying to create bogs and you did a bang up job.
Good work.
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Post by twoton on Sept 8, 2007 13:14:22 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think melly is the one who did this bang-up job, unless he/she is employed by the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, The Netherlands, (one of?) the word's oldest botanical gardens. That's where these photos were taken - during the European Exhibition and Exchange ( EEE for short) in August :-) |
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Post by pinglover on Sept 8, 2007 13:53:27 GMT
No wonder why the bogs in the photo were so well done! Those bogs blow my bogs away. I've never been to Hortus Botanicus and wouldn't have made the connection that the bog photos were taken there.
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Post by marcel on Sept 8, 2007 19:04:36 GMT
Yes, the bogs are from the botanical garden. The rectangular bog on the Photo's was created for the EEE in 2002 when it was also in Leiden. The canopy walk which is also shown was set up with plants donated by Carnivora, the Dutch CPS after a very successful show. We have a very good relationship with the Hortus of Leiden. It helps that the manager of the greenhouses is a former president of us, but drawing nearly 11.000 paying visitors to the garden in 9 exhibition days after the EEE 2007 doesn't hurt the cause either  Hortus botanicus is by the way just the Latin name for a botanical garden, usually attached to an University. Leiden has one, Amsterdam even has two (City- and Free university). It is indeed very old. Founded in 1594 it is as far as I know the oldest remaining in Europe, Number two is Amsterdam City University at 1636. To compare, Kew Gardens in England dates from 1759. Right know were working hard on sorting paperwork, pictures and preparing a DVD with the lectures. Will post something when ready. ;D |
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Post by venusflytrapfreak on Nov 29, 2007 11:45:00 GMT
Thank you for sharing your photos!! They are beautiful!!! Very beautiful bogs!!
Ricky
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Post by glider14 on Dec 1, 2007 3:10:34 GMT
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nepenthesfreak
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Post by nepenthesfreak on Dec 1, 2007 3:34:51 GMT
OMG that thing is GIGANTIC!!!!!!
Don't tell me it's a miranda.
I wish I was there, looks incredible.
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