Believing Resident Blog Site– Wednesday is Environment Modification, the Atmosphere, and Sustainability Day
Today’s Subject: The Flowers of August: echinacea, tiger lilies, rose of sharon
What is your preferred flower of August? Has a new flower captured your eye?
The theme of the day is that the sharper your gratitude for the information of the wonders of nature, the richer your life, and the higher the odds of long-term varieties survival.
Today a few notes on echinacea, tiger lilies, and the rose of sharon.
Experts– please chime in. Correct, elaborate, illuminate.
ECHINACEA PURPUREA– also referred to as “coneflowers”– belonging to eastern and main US– in the sissy family
1 “It is most usual in the Ozarks, the Mississippi Valley, and the Ohio Valley.”
2 “Its habitats include dry open timbers, meadows, and barrens.”
3″ Echinacea purpurea is expanded as a decorative plant in warm regions.
It is optimal for aesthetics, walkways, or beds.”
NB: “The plant expands in sunlight or light color. It grows in either dry or moist dirt and can endure dry spell once established.”
TIGER LILIES– Lilium Lancifolium– native to China, North Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East
1 Unlike day lilies, the flowers direct down rather than up.
2 “It is widely grown as an ornamental due to its snazzy orange-and-black flowers, and periodically takes place as a yard refugee in North America, particularly the eastern United States including New England, and has actually made incursions right into some southerly states such as Georgia.”
3 “It is grown and wild foraged in Asia for its edible light bulbs.”
NB: It is hazardous to pet cats.
ROSE OF SHARON– Hibiscus syricacus called “increased mallow” in the UK, the national flower of South Korea, and “is pointed out in the South Oriental nationwide anthem”– not the scriptural “Rose of Sharon” which was most likely a crocus or a tulip
1 In South Korea a sign of resistance to Japanese colonial rule.
2 “Originally native to Korea. It was offered Japan in the 8 th century and grown for gardening.”
3 “According to documents, it was prolific on the Korean Peninsula before the 1 st century.”
NB: “Its fallen leaves were made into an organic mixture and its blossoms eaten in Korea. Later on it was presented and grown in the gardens of Europe as early as the 16 th century,”
PRICE ESTIMATE OF THE MONTH
“Make your own Scriptures. Select and gather all the words and sentences that in all your analyses have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
My spin– then occasionally testimonial, re-rank, and exchange your checklist with those you like. I call this the “Orion Exchange” since seven has to do with as many as any kind of human can digest at a time. Game?
A WEB LINK TO THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF MESSAGES ORGANIZED BY THEME:
PDF with headlines– Google Drive
ATTACHMENT LISTED BELOW:
# 1 A graphic guide to justice (9 allegories on one web page).
# 2 39 Songs, Prayers, and Poems: the Keys to the Hearts of Seven Billion People” — Adams Home Senior Citizen Community Room Presentation, (11/ 17/ 20
NB: Palestine Orion (Choice)– allowed’s exchange Orions, allow’s discover Rumi’s field (“Beyond all concepts of right and wrong, there is a field. Satisfy me there” Rumi, 13 century Persian Sufi mystic)
YOUR TURN
Please share the coolest thing you discovered in the last week associated with environment change or the setting.
Or the coolest, essential point you learned in your life related to environment modification that the rest of us might have missed out on. Your favorite chart or table possibly …
This is your chance to make a person’s day. Or to cement in your very own mind something that you might otherwise neglect. Or to assume even more deeply than otherwise about something dear to your heart.