Michaelangelica Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Do Botanic Gardens have to become Disney Theme Parks to get the money to do what they need to do?http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/arts/design/06train.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1228543678-qPw4Eq+uz3N62AvDkZpvVg http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/arts/design/06train.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1228543678-qPw4Eq+uz3N62AvDkZpvVg New York Through a Looking Glass - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 11 I went to Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, (It was closed and alovely Yank lady showed me around anyway-there are some VERY nice Yanks about) which i thought was the most magnificent Botanic garden I had ever seen (And suffering from an undeserved inferiority complex)It that the same as NY Botanic Gardens?Has everyone got used to my parenthesis style yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganoderma Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 better that than closure like they do in canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted December 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 better that than closure like they do in canada. I would quite happily pay for rare plants like the Cinnamon and Bay Rum trees grown in Sydney Botanic Gardens.This would also increase the plants' chances of survival. I think they may have made a bit recently selling clones of the Wollombi Pine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganoderma Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 yep, thats one good way :phones: the conservation centre back home closed down cause the gov wasn't happy enough with the money it made. so perhaps slanging some green would be a wise idea for these places. but its strange how selling things is almost shamed on places like these (zoos included). protect the wild, but also slow progress at the same time. we are a strange specie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I would quite happily pay for rare plants like the Cinnamon and Bay Rum trees grown in Sydney Botanic Gardens.This would also increase the plants' chances of survival. I think they may have made a bit recently selling clones of the Wollombi Pine. Hey were can i get some of those Wollombi Pine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Benzene Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I just went to the United States Botanic Garden in DC. It's free to enter and is funded by Congress, and I'm assuming, donations. I absolutely love it and it was a perfect thing to do on a rainy day. :eek_big: Here are a few pics I took. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belovelife Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 i've been to yogananda's botanical garden in san diegoits nicenothing extravigantyet serene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted January 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hey were can i get some of those Wollombi Pine? They are now in every nursery.I don't know who would mail order to you though.I'll try and find out.They are not cheap It is amazing it was found about 100K away from me, close to the biggest conurbations in Australia. It was stuck in a little valley that you had to abseil into and a national Park Ranger, who did, thought " That's a strange pine tree." They are an attractive unusual pine and seem to be taking to captivity fairly well with very large trees available in nurseries.Along with the Ginko one of the oldest trees extant on earth. There are fossil remains of it millions of years old.The location is now a closely guarded secret. Botanists fear it might be phytophera sensitive or too many sight-seers would bigger things up. Wollemi Pine (19/05/2005)Topics: Fossils, Nature12:09 mins - Windows media - Real PlayerComments * Reporter: Mark Horstman * Producer: Paul Faint * Researcher: Leonie Hansell, Anita Lane Wollemi PineDiscovering the Wollemi Pine in 1994 was like finding a family of dinosaurs alive and well. Growing only in a deep sandstone gorge of the Blue Mountains, the Wollemi Pine has intrigued and frustrated scientists.TRANSCRIPT Discovering the Wollemi Pine in 1994 was like finding a family of dinosaurs alive and well. Growing only in a deep sandstone gorge of the Blue Mountains, the Wollemi Pine has intrigued and frustrated scientists.The genetic diversity of the ancient pines is exceptionally low, perhaps the lowest for any plant in the world. Nearly all of the 80 trees are clones - they have identical genetic code. How has it managed to survive through 200 million years of shifting continents and changing climates? And what does it need to keep surviving in a human world? Catalyst joins a select team of specialists as they return to the Wollemi Grove and delve inside its hidden world - the trees and their cells, to find some answers. Blind-folded to protect the exact location, it's only the second time ever that a television crew have been permitted to see the last wild stand of treesCatalyst: Wollemi Pine - ABC TV Science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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