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After the driest spring in over 60 years, our gardens have been amazing these past months. In this edition of DIG IT, Peter Brown and Chris Day guide us through the month of June looking at the events, topical gardening news and tasks to keep our gardens colourful and productive.What's onSaturday 7th June Royal Windsor Flower Show, Windsor Great Park, Windsor. 7th - 8th June London Open Gardens, Multiple locations, London.12 - 15th June BBC Gardeners' World Live, NEC, Birmingham.20 - 22nd June Blenheim Palace Flower Show, Blenheim, Oxfordshire.NewsThe two men who felled a tree at Sycamore Gap convicted of criminal damage.Eden Project Morecambe set to open in 2028.Good news for UK horticulture as most routine border checks on plant shipments to and from the EU will be dropped in new trade deal.Alan Titchmarsh becomes President of the National Garden Scheme as Dame Mary Berry steps down after 10 years in the role.National Garden Scheme charity funds over 100 gardens.Anne-Marie Powell's 2025 award-winning Octavia Hill Chelsea Garden finds a permanent home at Bridgemere Show Gardens in Nantwich, Cheshire.CHELSEA NEWS HEADLINESMonty Don's RHS / BBC RADIO 2 Dog Garden got tails wagging at show.Taylors Bulbs make it 32 Gold medals at Chelsea.Cosmos King and friend of the podcast Jonathan Sheppard collects Gold for his National Collection of Cosmos display.Frank P Matthews awarded Silver Guilt for Malus and trained fruit display.Cha No Niwa, Japanese Tea Garden collects top awards including the People's Award for best show garden.In the Malvern Houseplant Studio category, a gold was awarded to Babylon Beats by James Whiting of Plants by There and The Little Botanical reimagines the Hanging Gardens of Babylon through a 1980s lens.Winner of the RHS Plant of the Year 2025 goes to Philadelphus Petit Perfume Pink.The King's Rose is officially unveiled with proceeds going to The King's Foundation.The National Trust creates its first ornamental forest garden at the Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire.Communities to gather in the Great Big Green Week to help beat climate change.Tribute garden to late Queen Elizabeth II takes shape at London's Regent's Park.Can you help passionate Cornish Peony gardener – Caroline Stone - and her quest to find rare types of Paeonia lactifolora, bred since the 1800s by Kelway's Nursery in Langport, Somerset? If you think you can help Caroline, contact her at www.glebegarden.co.uk DIG IT Top 5 Summer bedders in pots: 5th Dahlietta, 4th Osteospermums, 3rd Ivy Leaf Pelargoniums, 2nd Regal Pelargoniums and at the No1 spot Zonal Pelargoniums.Plants mentioned: Runner beans, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Lettuce. Forsythia, Philadelphus, Weigela, Deciduous Viburnum, Delphiniums, Lupins, Monstera, Roses, Tulips, Seasonal bedding plants, Paeonies, Petunias, and Speedplanters. Sow now Foxgloves, Poppies, Wallflowers, Sweet William, and Forget Me Nots. Encourage pollinators into the garden by planting Lavender, Aster, Coneflowers Cosmos, and Sunflowers.Products mentioned: Dutch hoe, Westland All Purpose Boost Plant Feed, Tomorite, Evergreen 4-in-1 Complete Lawn Feed, Greenhouse shading, Poppyforge plant supports, garden canes, Hozelock multi-gun, Hydrangea Colourant, houseplant compost, and pots for houseplant re-potting.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Learn how to grow and enjoy the fruit of the overlooked and forgotten medlar (Mespilus germanica) with Jane Steward, author of MEDLARS - Growing & Cooking (affiliate link), founder of Eastgate Larder in North Norfolk, UK (which is also part of the prestigious Plant Heritage National Collection), in this episode of the Orchard People Radio Show.ABOUTOrchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collective knowledge and collaboration of the monthly guest experts, organizations, and community from around the world. The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com. HOW TO TUNE IN TO OUR PODCASTThe show airs on the last Tuesday of every month on RealityRadio101 at 1:00 PM ET! While it's no longer live, you can still watch or listen anytime—and catch the recorded podcast anytime afterward. Video Podcast: Watch the recorded episode anytime on our YouTube Podcast Playlist.Audio Podcast: Download the podcast and listen on your favorite app after it airs.NEWSLETTERDo you want to learn to grow fruit trees successfully, organically and beyond?Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's FREE monthly newsletter at https://orchardpeople.com/sign-up/BOOKSSusan is the author of four books on fruit tree care.Learn more here: https://learn.orchardpeople.com/booksCOURSESSusan is also the creator of five-star rated premium online fruit tree care education at: https://learn.orchardpeople.comARTICLESFor more information on this topic, click on the links below: How to Prune Fruit Trees:https://orchardpeople.com/how-to-prune-and-train-fruit-trees/Fruit Tree Pests and Diseases:https://orchardpeople.com/protecting-fruit-trees-from-pests-and-diseases/How to Feed Fruit Trees:https://orchardpeople.com/how-to-feed-fruit-trees/The Best Fruit Trees to Grow:https://orchardpeople.com/best-fruit-trees-to-grow/How to Graft Fruit Trees:https://orchardpeople.com/how-to-graft-fruit-trees/These show notes may contain affiliate links to products. We may receive a small commission for purchases made through these links at no cost to you. Thanks for your support! (00:00) - Introduction and Confession (00:39) - Meet Jane Steward: Medlar Expert (02:00) - What Are Medlars? (03:03) - Growing Medlar Trees (08:07) - Medlar Tree Pests and Diseases (12:39) - Pruning Medlar Trees (21:23) - Medlar Tree Varieties and National Collection (23:09) - Ensuring the Survival of the Medlar (23:40) - Choosing and Identifying Cultivars (27:47) - Growing Conditions and Planting Tips (34:46) - Medlar in Gourmet Cuisine (39:37) - The Bletting Process (42:43) - Exploring the History of Medlar (45:40) - Wrapping Up and Final Thoughts
This week we're finding out how to be a hoverfly hero. These masters of mimicry are vitally important pollinators, decomposers, and aphid predators, but their populations are in steep decline in the UK. RHS entomologist Josie Stuart will be telling us more about these garden friends, and how we as gardeners can help. Keeping our gardens blooming for as long as possible is a great help for all our pollinators and Cosmos shows off its delicate flowers all the way from late summer through to the first frosts of autumn. We'll speak to National Collection holder Jonathon Sheppard for his recommendations of the best cultivars to try this year. And from one remarkable collection to another – Sarah Cook has dedicated years to researching and reviving the lost irises of Cedric Morris. These striking blooms, once thought to survive only in his famous paintings, have been brought back to life thanks to her tireless work in the RHS archives and in Cedric's garden at Benton End. Host: Jenny Laville Contributors: Josie Stuart, Jonathan Sheppard, Sarah Cook Links: Be a hoverfly hero Help hoverflies: 5 top plants and 5 fun facts What are hoverflies? Read Jonathan's cosmos and hollyhock blog British cosmos (seed sales) Plant Heritage, home of the National Plant Collections Benton End The Nurture Landscapes Garden at Chelsea Flower Show RHS People Awards
Ep.230 Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) was born in Guyana, South America. Parallel to his studio practice, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ in 1983. Steeped in modest materials, such as polyester, push pins, map pins and metallic string, form is foregrounded and the slippage between drawing, painting and sculpture places his work in a space that challenges the conventions of each medium, and forces the viewer to experience form on its own terms. Hazlewood explains, “Like a sculptor, I work to find 'shapes' and 'volumes', implied or actual. And like painting, the layering becomes an intuitive search for textures, color and form…I define edges, where things begin and end, where they may find relationships and multiple transitions against or into each other. I think of this as 'drawing' the accumulation of parts into active and resonant connections. Then those 'active' parts are pinned into a final configuration, something that feels properly 'evocative' yet stable as plastic form.” Solo exhibitions of his work include BlackHead Anansi: Constellations at Charlotte and Philip Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, South Carolina (2023); Racing Thoughts-Fever Dreaming at Art Basel Miami Beach (2022); and BlackHead Lyricism at Welancora Gallery (2022). Hazlewood has been the recipient of fellowships at the MacDowell organization (2023, 2015); the Brown Foundation at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2018); and the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy (2018). His fifty-two-foot-tall wall work, TRAVELER (2017), was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Queens. Collections include: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , The Study Center, Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy, The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo - Brazil, The Schomburg Center Collections, New York, NY, The University of Guyana, South America and The National Collection of Fine Arts, Castellani House, Guyana, South America. Photo credit: Dia Art Foundation Artist https://www.carle-hazlewood.com/ Welancora Gallery https://www.welancoragallery.com/artists/71-carl-e.-hazlewood/works/ Brattleboro Museum https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2024/10/21/carl-e-hazlewood-infinite-passage/ Sharpe-Walentas https://www.thestudioprogram.com/artists-hp2023/carl-e-hazlewood Ortega y Gasset Projects https://www.oygprojects.com/swimming-blind-in-a-wine-dark-sea Duck Creek arts https://www.duckcreekarts.org/2024-group-show-ranee Whitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/must-see-shows-in-the-hamptons-on-view-now/ Bomb https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/07/02/an-oral-history-with-cynthia-hawkins-by-julia-trotta/ Art Students League https://www.artstudentsleague.org/events/painters-talking-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-abstraction Wake Forest | Hanes Gallery https://hanesgallery.wfu.edu/blackhead-anansi-constellations/ Valentine Museum of Art https://valentinemuseumofart.com/artists/36-carl-hazlewood/works/ Art in Dumbo https://dumboopenstudios.com/listings/artist/carl-e-hazlewood/ Stabroek news https://www.stabroeknews.com/2024/02/04/sunday/eye-on-art/circling-back-to-carl-e-hazlewood/ Macdowell https://www.macdowell.org/artists/carl-e-hazlewood Art Cake https://artcake.org/artist-carl-e-hazlewood David Richard gallery https://davidrichardgallery.com/news/865-carl-e-hazlewood-demerara-dreaming-triptych-paintings-1996-2003-david-richard-gallery-chelsea-february-17-2022
In this edition of DIG IT Peter Brown and Chris Day chat with horticultural journalist, garden designer and broadcaster Naomi Slade. Naomi's latest book, Chrysanthemum: Beautiful Varieties from Home and Garden, is a celebration of the ever so versatile Chrysanthemum. On the podcast we discover more about Naomi's garden design journey, plus great advice on planting and her love of plants, including some recommendations for winter interest.Plants mentioned: Apples, Cyclamen Florist types, Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Daffodils, Elodea (Canadian Pondweed – now banned from sale), Herbs, Helleborus, Hardy Cyclamen Coum and C Hederifolium, Snowdrops (including Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Naomi Slade' (Monksilver Nursery), Rhubarb, Roses, Paeonies, Plums, Prunus subhirtella autumnalis (winter flowering cherry), Wild Strawberries, Tulips, consider more vigorous rootstocks in difficult soils when growing fruit trees. The aptly named Cottage Chrysanthemums range are reliable and hardy as are the varieties ‘Ruby Mound' and ‘Dulwich Pink' (RHS AGM).Scented winter plants: Sarcococca, Viburnum bodnantense, Snowdrops, Lonicera fragrantissima, Mahonia and Hamamelis (Witch Hazel). People, products mentioned: Sir David Attenborough, Gerald Durrell, photographer Georgianna Lane, Piet Oudolf, Sarah Raven and Halls of Heddon. Which Gardening, Garden News, Water Butts, Old bread knife for dividing perennial clumps in the spring.National Collection of Chrysanthemums: Norwell Nurseries and Gardens, Nottinghamshire.Show gardens mentioned: 'Never Mind The Hollyhocks' Award Winning punk-themed conceptual garden by Naomi Slade at RHS Hampton Court 2012 and The Flood Resilient Garden in conjunction with Dr Ed Barsley. Silver Medal Winner at RHS Chelsea 2024.Desert Island luxuries: Naomi's tool would be her trusted bread knife and an apple tree, maybe a ‘Bramley', would be her island tree of choice.To find out more about Naomi and her books visit her websiteOur thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
There's so much more to growing tulips than planting a few bulbs in autumn and hoping for a bright display next spring. Expert grower, Polly Nicholson, shares her appreciation for the beauty and diversity of tulips and how to help them deliver vibrant flowers over several years in tune with nature. As a National Collection holder, Polly outlines how she continues a tradition of exhibiting some of the most beautiful varieties. Learn from her tulip growing tips and get the best from your bulbs whether growing for vases, container displays, naturalised or simply for spring beauty in your borders. Do you have a gardening question you'd like Alan Titchmarsh's help with? Submit your question in the comments below or go to www.gardenersworld.com/podcast/questions/ Alan will answer a selection in the Ask Alan podcast series from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine in February and March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ron and Sarah Jury spent years acquiring the best examples of significant cars from four decades of automobile excellence. A staggering 14 cars within this collection are AACA Grand National winners, with two nominated for the highly coveted Zenith Award. Now they can be yours as they head to an online only RM Sotheby's auction beginning on 10/30/24. You can learn more at: https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/rj24/lots/ Please support our sponsors: www.RMSothebys.com, www.LLCTLC.com and www.EuroClassix.com. For discounted registration fees for your collector car, RV, boat or other awesome ride, please visit LLCTLC at https://www.llctlc.com/classic Follow The Collector Car Podcast: Website, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or communicate with Greg directly via Email. Join RM Sotheby's Car Specialist Greg Stanley as he applies over 25 years of insight and analytical experience to the collector car market. Greg interviews the experts, reviews market trends and even has some fun. Podcasts are posted every Thursday and available on Apple Podcast, GooglePlay, Spotify and wherever podcasts are found. See more at www.TheCollectorCarPodcast.com or contact Greg directly at Greg@TheCollectorCarPodcast.com. Are you looking to consign at one of RM Sotheby's auctions? Email Greg at GStanley@RMSothebys.com.
Send us a textRoz here! I'm thrilled to bring you another insightful episode, and today, we're diving deep into the world of sweet peas with none other than Roger Parsons. Roger shares his incredible journey from a childhood fascination with sweet peas to becoming the custodian of the National Collection. If you're passionate about sweet peas or just love to learn about the intricate beauty of flowers, this episode is a must-listen.Episode SummaryIn this episode, Roger Parsons takes us on a journey through the delicate and fragrant world of sweet peas. From his early memories of buying sweet pea varieties at Woolworths to managing an extensive collection of over 160 Lathyrus species, Roger's passion is palpable. He discusses the challenges of preserving rare varieties, the nuances of sweet pea cultivation, and offers practical advice for both novice and experienced growers.Roger also shares valuable insights into the differences between various types of sweet peas and other Lathyrus species, such as the everlasting pea. He provides tips on achieving the best vase life for cut flowers, growing sweet peas in different climates, and the benefits of cordon growing versus natural growth methods. Key TakeawaysJourney to National Collection: Roger's transition from a childhood love of sweet peas to managing a national collection and the importance of preserving rare varieties.Sweet Pea Varieties: Understanding the differences between Spencer, Grandiflora, and old-fashioned sweet peas, and how to choose the right type for your needs.Growing Tips: The best times to sow sweet peas depending on your location, and how to support and care for your plants for optimal growth.Irrigation Insights: How proper watering can extend stem length and improve overall flower quality, and the role of foliar feeding in promoting healthy plants.Avoiding Common Pitfalls: Learn how to prevent leggy growth, ensure your plants flower, and avoid over-fertilisation with nitrogen.Connect with Roger Parsons: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rpsweetpeas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roger_parsons_sweet_peas/ Website: https://www.rpsweetpeas.com/ Visit Https://audioandco.com for all your audiobook, video and podcast needs. https://fieldgateflowers.kartra.com/page/newsletters Flower Farmers Retreat 2024 (21 &22 September): https://fieldgateflowers.kartra.com/page/businessretreat2024 2024 Farm Day at Field Gate Farm (10 August): https://fieldgateflowers.kartra.com/page/farmvisit A Cut Above Waitlist: https://fieldgateflowers.kartra.com/page/ACutAboveWaitlist The Growth Club: https://fieldgateflowers.kartra.com/page/thegrowthclub Lots of free resources on our website: https://thecutflowercollective.co.uk/cut-flower-resources/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fieldgateflowers Facebook Group 'Cut Flower Farming - Growth and Profit in your business' https://www.facebook.com/groups/449543639411874 Facebook Group 'The Cut Flower Collection' https://www.facebook.com/groups/cutflowercollection
Tunes: Walker Jackson: Cossey's Jigg, Jackson's Morning Brush, Jackson's Night Cap, Jackson's Dream, Humours of Listivain, The maids in the Morning Niel Gow: The Cossy Jigg James Aird: Casseys Jig, The Humours of Listivain, O'Farrell: The Cosey Jigg, Jerry's Rambles, Francis O'Neill: Jimmy O'Brien's Jig John Clinton: Copey's Jigg, John Bowie: Humours of Listivain, Pither in Enough O'Farrell: Jerry's Rambles, Sally McGee, Sheelina Gra Will You Be Mine, Henry Hudson: Jolly Old Woman Richard Levey: The Humours of Bandon Patrick Hutchinson: Humours of Listivain Frank Cloudy: Humours of Listivain Many thanks to Patrick Hutchinson and Frank Cloudy for supplying me with their takes of Humours of Listivain. Patrick and Frank both mentioned Kieran Jordan's Sean-nós dance choreography to the tune Kieran kindly sent me a link to a video of the dance, which begins around fifteen minutes in (with a solo slow air) https://youtu.be/mVxeGJIaDaY?si=2y23oW2oAGoNMfkZ&t=1031 If you'd like to get a copy of the Album Frank Cloudy sent me (and I highly recommend it) send Frank an email (and $12 to claudyf@msn.com ) +X+X+ SOURCES I play through Many Tunes from Walker Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes. Unfortunately it isn't available online anywhere in facsimile form, but NPU has a transcription available here: https://pipers.ie/source/gallery/?galleryId=51&gl=1n8kkbiupMQ..gaMTc5MDE0MTUwNS4xNzE2MDA4ODM2ga_8BBP57V9FE*MTcxNjAxMTYyNC4yLjEuMTcxNjAxMTYyOC4wLjAuMA.. Or the ABC on Bill Black's Website here: http://www.capeirish.com/ittl/tunefolders/30/30-table.html Similarly I play through a couple tunes from O'Farrell's National Collection, it also Isn't available in Facsimile form anywhere, but you can see it here: http://www.capeirish.com/ittl/tunefolders/47/47-table.html Cossey's Jigg +X+X+ 1774: Cossey's Jigg from Walker Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes +X+X 1795: The Cossy Jigg from Niel Gow's “A Collection of Strathspey Reels Vol 2 https://archive.org/details/collectionofstra00gown/page/n62/mode/1up +X+X+ 1780s: Casseys Jig from James Aird's 3rd Volume https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94563936 +X+X+ 1806: The Cosey Jigg from O'Farrell's Pocket book 2 https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780974 +X+X+ 1907: Jimmy O'Brien's Jig from Francis O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland https://imslp.org/wiki/TheDanceMusicofIreland(O%27Neill%2CFrancis) +X+X+ 1840: Copey's Jigg from John Clinton's Gems of Ireland https://imslp.org/wiki/GemsofIreland%2COp.45(Clinton%2C_John) +X+X+X+X+X+ 1774: Jackson's Morning Brush from Walker Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes +X+X+ 1774: Jackson's Night Cap from Walker Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes +X+X+ 1774: Jackson's Dream from Walker Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes +X+X+X+X+ Humours of Listivain 1774: Humours of Listivain from Walker Jackson +X+ 1780s: Humours of Listivain from Aird Vol. 3 https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94564176 +X+ 1789: The Humours of Listivain from John Bowie's Collection of Strathspey's Reels and Country Dances https://imslp.org/wiki/ACollectionofStrathspeyReelsandCountryDances(Bowie%2C_John) Note Pither in Enough on the same page Also note that the TUNEARCH ABC has it in D Maj incorrectly +X+ 1800: Jerry's Rambles, from O'Farrell's National Collection +X+ 1800: Sally McGee from O'Farrell's National Collection +X+ 1806: Sheelina Gra Will you Be Mine from O'Farrell's Pocketbook. https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780290 +X+ 1840s: Jolly Old Woman From Henry Hudson (https://sites.nd.edu/rbsc/the-citizen-and-henry-hudsons-collection-of-irish-music/ ) https://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE1434-2/#page/10/mode/1up https://books.google.com/books/about/TheCitizenorDublinmonthlymagazine.html?id=RTUFAAAAQAAJ +X+ 1858: The Humours of Bandon from Richard Levey's The Dance Music of Ireland https://imslp.org/wiki/TheDanceMusicofIreland(Levey%2CRichard_Michael) +X++X+X++X+ 1774: The Maids in the Morning From Walker Jackson +X+X+X+X+ Finally a Recording of The Humours of Listivain courtesy of Frank Cloudy, if you'd like to buy a copy send an email (and $12 to Frank Claudy: claudyf@msn.com ) FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! 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POLLY NICHOLSON BIOSpecialist flower grower and tulip expert, Polly Nicholson is the owner of Bayntun Flowers in Wiltshire – growers of organic flowers cultivated in walled gardens and a one-acre field at the foot of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. Nicholson holds the National Collection of Tulipa (Historic) with Plant Heritage, and has been featured on BBC Gardener's World, Radio 4, in Gardens Illustrated, Country Life, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The World of Interiors, and House & Garden. Learn more about Polly through her book The Tulip Garden, her Instagram @bayntunflowers, and her website Bayntun Flowers.THE PLANTASTIC PODCASTThe Plantastic Podcast is a monthly podcast created by Dr. Jared Barnes. He's been gardening since he was five years old and now is an award-winning professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. To say hi and find the show notes, visit theplantasticpodcast.com.You can learn more about how Dr. Jared cultivates plants, minds, and life at meristemhorticulture.com. He also shares thoughts and cutting-edge plant research each week in his newsletter plant•ed, and you can sign up at meristemhorticulture.com/subscribe. Until next time, #keepgrowing!
Our gardens are full of them at this time of year, but the Tulip actually originates in Central Asia. These species Tulips are varied in height, colour, foliage and the ease with which we can grow them at home and so this week on Talking Dirty, Cambridge University Botanic Garden - who hold the National Collection of Species Tulips - are along to share some of their favourites and recommendations for which to grow, and how. Plus stories of their latest adventures in Kyrgyzstan where they've been finding and protecting new varieties.So join Alan Gray, Thordis and Simon Wallis and Kathryn Bray of the Botanics for a tantalising tour of their collection!PLANT LISTTulipa sprengeriTulipa tschimghanicaTulipa toktogulicaTulipa greigiiTulipa creticaTulipa 'Negrita'Tulip bakerii 'Lilac Wonder'Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfeniiTulipa acuminata syn. Tulipa cornutaTulipa montanaTulipa heweriTulipa bifloraTulipa turkestanicaTulipa regeliiTulipa tardaTulipa saxatilisTulipa linifoliaTulipa undulatifolia syn Tulipa eichleri Tulipa clusianaTulipa clusiana 'Peppermint Stick'Tulip clusiana var. chrysanthaTulipa aucherianaTulipa sylvestrisTulipa orphanideaTulipa kaufmannianaTulipa fosterianaTulipa praestans 'Shogun'Tulipa 'Apeldoorn'Tulipa 'Ballerina'Tulipa 'Heart's Delight'Trollius lilacinusIris acutilobaTulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane'
Conor Tallon once again met Michael Waldron as they explore the National Collection held in the Crawford Art Gallery and the final week of the hugely successful exhinition "All Eyes on Us" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
My guest this week is Polly Nicholson. Polly is the owner of Bayntun Flowers in Wiltshire, and holds the national collection of Tulipa (Historica) with Plant Heritage. Polly has also written a book called ‘The Tulip Garden: Growing and Collecting Species, Rare and Annual Varieties' which is released on the 21st March and today she shares her knowledge of this complex and fascinating group of plants. About Polly Nicholson Specialist flower grower and tulip expert Polly Nicholson is the owner of Bayntun Flowers in Wiltshire – growers of organic flowers cultivated in walled gardens and a one-acre field at the foot of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. Nicholson holds the National Collection of Tulipa (Historic) with Plant Heritage, and has featured on BBC Gardener's World, Radio 4, in Gardens Illustrated, Country Life, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The World of Interiors, and House & Garden. Links The Tulip Garden: Growing and Collecting Species, Rare and Annual Varieties by Polly Nicholson www.bayntunflowers.co.uk Other episodes if you liked this one: Historic Roses Irises Support the podcast on Patreon
In today's episode, we've got a great interview with Matt Bernstein, who is a supernumerary with the Canadian Opera Company! What's that? Think of it like being an extra, but in an opera!We talk about how Matt gets a kick out of being a part of the creative process, and get to see behind the scenes of some of his favourite art.PLUS, Pete talks about one of his more niche hobbies of phone box spotting!Written and produced by Kayla Lean and Pete FalconerMusic, audio editing and video editing by Pete FalconerArtwork by Laura Walsh - https://laurajanewalsh.co.ukAnimation by Kayla Leanhowihobby@gmail.comLinksA beginner's guide to opera: https://www.eno.org/discover-opera/the-beginners-guide-to-opera/Against The Grain Theatre: https://atgtheatre.com/Canadian Opera Company: https://www.coc.ca/Learn all about UK telephone kiosks here: http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/ You know you want to!And visit the National Collection of Telephone Kiosks in Bromsgrove: https://avoncroft.org.uk/avoncrofts-work/special-collectionsRemember, you can sign up to the how i hobby newsletter at https://howihobby.beehiiv.com/subscribe for updates on new episodes, you can gaze at our beautiful faces at http://www.youtube.com/@howihobbypodand, and you can say hi to us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/howihobbyToodles!K&P#Hobby #hobbies #opera #canadianoperacompany #stage #theatre #supernumerary #extra #supportingartist #telephonekiosks #phonebox #phonebooth #phonekiosk #redphonebox #doctorwho #podcast #comedy #newpodcast #interview Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
H looks at damaged and light sensitive art in the new hangings from the National Collection at the Manx Museum, tries to find out what the Whiteboys are all about before their pre-Christmas appearance on Saturday and a cautionary tale from the Bard!
This week on Wonderspace we orbit with Chris Duffy. In 2002, Chris started Duffy London, a design studio devoted to combining art and function. They concept and create unique innovative furniture, lighting, and interiors using fully sustainable and recycled materials and packaging. His work has been exhibited around the world and is also part of the permanent National Collection at The Louve in Paris. In this episode Chris talks about his latest bamboo water taxi venture.More info: www.duffylondon.comTo view the episode page with a summary of the interview, links to social media and projects mentioned, go to https://ourwonder.space/episodes/_127
Artists' Artists is brought to you by the National Gallery of Australia. Over the course of the series, host Jennifer Higgie speaks with internationally renowned artists about works of art from the National Collection that inspire, move, or intrigue them. To find out more visit www.nga.gov.au. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
If you have ever wondered why you should grow Roses, let Daniel Myhill tell you why, how and what to grow! Daniel is the National Collection holder for Rosa persica hybrids and knows a thing or two about Roses. This informative and fun chat with Daniel will get you growing the best Roses. Afterwards Ellen and Michael are joined by a gardening internet sensation for this weeks horti hangout! It's Michael Griffiths, known as @the_mediterranean_gardener chatting social media planning, gardening and acting Pirate style. Sponsors of series 13 are Lava-Lite - Naturally The Best Effortlessly nourish and protect your plants with a collection of totally non-toxic, environmentally friendly, sustainable, pH neutral, lightweight and 100% natural products. Derived from volcanic deposits, LAVA-LITE was formed by nature over 10,000 years ago. The collection is made up of eight different horticultural growing/potting media and pest control products, with each continually offering the same natural benefits: thermal protection, moisture retention and control, soil conditioning and providing a nutrient boost; as well as being completely child, pet and environmentally safe. LAVA-LITE is chemically inert, zero-harm and does not kill pests. It acts as a natural barrier and deterrent, providing an opportunity for them to simply move on. All the products can be used anywhere in the home and garden without worry and any predators eating prey that have come in to contact with LAVA-LITE will not be harmed, keeping eco-systems balanced, maintained and sustainable. The LAVA-LITE collection is available in handy 1 litre and 3 litre resealable pouches. They are easy to use, provide great results and don't require careful handling, making them perfect for the novice gardener and specialist grower. Learn more at www.lava-lite.co.uk
Episode 113 of Talking Dirty sees Eucomis National Collection holder Richard Clark of Panache Plants join Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis. In Part One they got slightly sidetracked by the breeding work Richard's been doing with Roscoeas in particular. But this week we explore Eucomis in earnest, plus lots of FLOMO**FLoral/plant-based fear Of Missing OutPLANT LISTEucomis bicolorEucomis schijffii eucomis pallidifloraEucomis pallidiflora subsp. pole-evansiiGalanthus 'Alan Gray'Eucomis 'Dark Star'Eucomis aloha 'Leia'Eucomis autumnalisEucomis zambesiacaEucomis vandermerweiEucomis comosa 'Pink Gin'Eucomis comosa 'Lotte'Eucomis vandermerwei 'Octopus'SarraceniaLychnis × arkwrightii 'Vesuvius'Abutilon 'Leila Jackson'Abutilon 'Kentish Belle'TiarellaTetrapanax papyrifer 'Meifeng'Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Di Sue Shan'Ficus carica 'Jolly Tiger'Tolmiea menziesiiTolmiea menziesii 'Cool Gold'
This week on Talking Dirty, Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis catch up with a regular nurseryman on their local plant fair circuit, Richard Clark of Panache Plants. Richard holds the National Collection of Eucomis and we'll have more about the Pineapple Lily next week. But he's also got a background in plant breeding and has been using his expertise to select some very interesting new plants!PLANT LISTRoscoea purpureaRoscoea 'Red Gurkha'Abutilon 'Ashford Red'Abutilon 'Pink Charm'OsteospermumAeonium 'Velour' Aeonium simsiiSparmannia africana 'Variegata' Abutilon 'Kentish Belle'
After an incredibly wet, windy and mild autumn in many parts of the UK, November beckons with a hope of more settled conditions. Dig It's Peter Brown and Chris Day bring us up to date with the latest gardening news, a couple of events celebrating apples, and the joy of garden visiting, as well as plenty of gardening tasks to be getting on with, plus the return of a very special guest to Dig It, houseplant aficionado Jane Perrone and her latest gardening project – Houseplant Gardener in a Box.Plants mentions: Apple Granny Smith, Comfrey, Sweet Chestnut, Sycamore, Loofah, Tulips, Winter pansies, Wallflower ‘Sugar Rush', Broad beans, Onions, Shallots and Garlic. Narcissus ‘Paper White' and bare-root raspberry canes.Product mentions: Empathy RootGrow, Melcourt SylvaGrow Multi-Purpose Compost, Levington Organic Blend Topsoil, wheatgerm fish food, greenhouse bubble insulation, horticultural fleece, garden furniture covers, grease bands for fruit trees, Gro-Sure Repair Kits, Autumn lawn food and pot feet.What's on27th October – 28th January 2024 The Museum of Cider in Hereford is hosting an exhibition called A Variety of Cultures. The event explores how cultures across the globe have taken the apple and made it their own. Thursday 23rd November, Annual Lecture – What Garden Visiting Does for Us with Robin Lane Fox. Venue the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, or watch it live-streamed online at 7pm.This month's Dig It top 5Soft fruits 1. Strawberry ‘Red Gauntlet' 2. Strawberry ‘Cambridge Favourite' 3. Blueberry ‘Sunshine Blue' 4. Strawberry ‘Hapil' 5. Blackcurrant ‘Big Ben.'NewsThe Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland felling incident. Wrexham's 484-year-old Sweet Chestnut Tree has been voted Tree of the Year 2023.The UK's largest collection of comfreys has been made a National Collection by the conservation charity Plant Heritage. Eight Guinness World Records achieved at Great Autumn Malvern Show.A 10,000 collection of pumpkins and squashes set a new Guiness World Record at Sunnyfields Farm in Southampton. Amateur Gardening magazine saved from cancellation.The results of this year's Big Butterfly Count are in, and more than 1.5 million butterflies and daytime months were recorded. Losses of specimen yew trees at King Charles's Sandringham residence as staff remove 14 dead trees in a new Topiary Garden.Gardeners' World has paid tribute to Monty Don's golden retriever, Nellie, following her sad passing. Therapy garden at King's Heath, Birmingham is awarded thousands of Lottery money for major revamp.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Continuing this series on works in the National Collection and the Crawford Art Gallery, Michael Waldron and Conor Tallon look at "On the Run, War of Independence 1922" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gary helps to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society by taking a look at the development, decline, and revival of the bellows bagpipe tradition in Scotland. With music from Gordon Mooney, , Fred Morrison, Annie Grace & Judy Barker, Andy May and ... himself! TracksDaimh with Jerry's Pipe Jig, Slainte do Mhabou, Donella Beaton, Muinera de Casu from From Moidart to MabouAnnie Grace and Judy Barker with Alison Cross from Reclaimed (Presented by Lowland and Borders Pipers' Society) Gordon Mooney and Shona Mooney with Jimmy Allan, Geld Him Lasses, Coffee and Tea and Skint o' Siller from Reclaimed (Presented by Lowland and Borders Pipers' Society)Andy May with The Countess of Galloway Set from Happy Hours Gary West with Dixon's Highland Laddie and Rangers' Frolic from The Islay BallFred Morrison Trio with Kansas from Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert HallFurther Resources Lowland and Border Pipers SocietyHugh Cheape , Bagpipes: a National Collection of a National Instrument (2008)Matt Seattle, The Master Piper - Nine Notes that Shook the World (edited version of the William Dickson Manuscript)Pete Stewart, Welcome Home My Dearie: Piping in the Scottish Lowlands 1690-1900 Pete Stewart, The Day it Daws: The Lowland Scots Bagpipe and its Music 1400 to 1715 Gary West, Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation (2012)Support the show
This week, my guest is Andrew Bullock, who runs The Lavender Garden Nursery. Andrew holds the National Collection of Buddlejas and grows a huge range of lavenders and buddlejas from his nursery in The Cotswolds. We talk about how to attract pollinators to your garden, when and how to prune your buddlejas and lavenders, whether buddlejas are invasive, why lavenders are sometimes short-lived and anything else you ever wanted to know about these two plants for pollinators. Dr Ian Bedford's Bug of the Week: Mosquitoes What We Talk About Which is better for bees - buddleja or lavender? The best varieties for bees/butterflies/pollinators in general Night time pollinators How to grow lavender and buddleja When to prune and how much to take off Buddleja - invasive? Causes of short-lived lavender Links The Lavender Garden Contact Andrew on the phone: 01453 860356 or 07837 582943 www.premierpolytunnels.co.uk Other episodes if you liked this one: Pollinators & Pollination Bugs in Your Garden Patreon
After a damp and cool July, we look forward to a productive, colourful yet relaxed August. Dig It's Peter Brown and Chris Day provide a round-up of the month's gardening what's on's, a look at the stories making the gardening headlines and a round-up of those essential gardening tasks.What's on2 - 6th August: RHS Hyde Hall Flower Show, Chelmsford, Essex.4 - 13th August: Shropshire Petal Fields, Newport, Shropshire.11 – 12th August: Shrewsbury Flower Show, The Quarry Shrewsbury.12 – 13th August: The Great Comp Summer Show, Platt near Sevenoaks, Kent.17 – 20th August: Southport Flower Show, Victoria Park, Southport.18 – 20th August: RHS Garden Rosemoor Flower Show, Great Torrington, Devon.Until 13 September: RHS Garden Wisley. A new exhibition Growing Up in the Garden, showcasing the way children use gardens as a place to connect with and explore the natural world.NEWS First King's birthday honours for landscaper and designer Tom Stuart-Smith (OBE) and Kew's Director of Gardens Richard Barley (MBE).Renowned rosarian Michael Marriott awarded the Dean Hole Medal by Colin Squire, chairman of The Rose Society UK.Top accolade the Brickell Award went to Adrian Young's National Collection of 900 Saxifraga as part of Plant Heritage's Hampton Court display.Carol Klein named the RHS's 'Iconic Horticultural Hero' for 2023 and Carol's comments about the lack of female representation on Gardeners' World.Hemlock warning: the deadly plant found in UK gardens.Rare pink grasshopper spotted in North Wales.Use of peat is falling according to latest HTA report.Scottish farmers lead research to revive lost linen industry.Salisbury City Council scraps hanging baskets and sparks division.Top plants named at HTA Plant Show - Curcuma ‘Skyline' overall winner. Other winners include Agapanthus Orientalis ‘Black Jack,' Ball Colegrave Ltd's Dahlia ‘Dalina® Maxi Starburst Pink' and Fatsia Japonica ‘Camouflage.'Dig It Top Five Roses: 1. ‘The Queen Elizabeth II', 2. ‘With Love', 3. ‘Cutie Pie', 4. ‘Precious Ruby' and 5. ‘Mary Berry'.Plant mentions: Plant seed potatoes for Christmas, Leeks, Brassicas and Spinach. Sow Basil, Marjoram, Borage, Chives, Coriander, and Dill. Propagate lavender and rosemary. Divide Chives. Propagate and plant new strawberry runners including ‘Cambridge Favourite,' ‘Elsanta,' and ‘Honeoye.' Continue sowing early-flowering biennials - like honesty and wallflowers. Sow Cress and compact sunflowers with the children.Product mentions: Bamboo canes, Garden twine (Jute). Plant feeds - Tomorite, Doff fertilisers. Miracle Gro, Phostrogen, Seaweed Extract, Westland Tomato Food and Comfrey tea.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for providing the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Plant breeder Peter Moore, who has been creating new plants for 40 years, tells HortWeek about his new breeding and his vast experience in the production of new plants.He started work at Hillier in 1960 with some legendary Hillier propagators.In 1997 he left Hillier's to become propagator at Longstock Park Nursery in Hampshire. He is still responsible for the National Collection of Buddleja held at the nursery and is also a member of the RHS hardy plant trial committee.Plant collectors like Sir Harold Hillier and Roy Lancaster were early inspirations, but it was Peter Dummer, the great Hillier propagator and plant breeder who was his biggest influence. He showed and monitored Moore in the skill of plant breeding so he made my first hybrid Pete Dummer came up with the name Aztec Pearl, possibly his greatest success. The first hybrid of the genus launched at Chelsea in 1989.He talks about how he has spent hundreds of hours plant breeding. All the stamens are carefully removed before pollinating and the flowers are covered with a pollinating bag. Nothing is left to chance.The most rewarding of the plants he has raised is Choisya White Dazzler, is available at most garden centres in the UK, listed in the RHS Plant Finder and sold in the EU.Moore discusses the state of British plant breeding, Brexit, peat, what Chelsea winners are still around, how he markets plants and the help JohnHedger, Neil Alcock, Charles Carr, Plantipp and Genesis have given for the 45 plants he has raised over the years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I travel to Newcastle in the UK to visit the National Collection of Hoyas, and chat with its holder, Felix Horne, and I answer a question about a languishing lime. For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/hoya-national-collection
This week on Talking Dirty, Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis are dazzled by Daisies as Helen Picton and Ross Barbour join them with a host of their favourite varieties. And if you're going to delve into the world of Michaelmas Daisies, who better to introduce you to them than The Picton Garden and Old Court Nurseries, who've specialised in this plant since 1906 and hold the National Collection. No matter the height or shade you're after, this week's Show and Tell is sure to have you inspired. And next week Helen and Ross will sneak in a host of supporting cast members to accompany the Michaelmas Daisies in your garden. PLANT LIST Dryopteris wallichiana Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Beauty of Colwall' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Marie Ballard' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Blandie' × Solidaster luteus 'Lemore' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Sheena' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Thundercloud' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Davey's True Blue' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Rufus' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Melbourne Magnet' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Dazzler' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Rosenwichtel' Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Algar's Pride' Aster amellus Aster amellus 'Gründer' Aster amellus 'Forncett Flourish' Aster pyrenaeus 'Lutetia' Aster sedifolius Aster × frikartii 'Mönch' Aster thomsonii Aster × frikartii 'Wunder von Stäfa' Aster × frikartii 'Eiger' Aster × frikartii 'Jungfrau' Aster peduncularis Aster trinervius var. harae Kalimeris Symphyotrichum 'Little Carlow' Symphyotrichum cordifolium Symphyotrichum ericoides 'Pink Cloud' Gypsophila Symphyotrichum ericoides 'Rosy Veil' Symphyotrichum 'Jessica Jones' Symphyotrichum turbinellum Symphyotrichum laeve 'Orpheus' Symphyotrichum 'Maggie May'
Leviticus: A Manual of SanctificationA Survey of the BibleFor bulletin in PDF form click here.Message SlidesLeviticus Chart - WilsonLeviticus Summary - PetersonFestivals and Fulfillments - WilsonContext: Who, When, Where, and Why?• Who composed Leviticus?• When did he write? • Where were he and his audience?• Why was he writing? Content: How and What?• How is Leviticus organized? • Status: Unclean (Wash and Wait) - Clean (Sacrifice) - Holy• Sections: Sacrifices (1-7) • Priesthood (8-10) • Purity Laws (11-16) • Holiness Laws (17-27)• Sections: Ritual (1-7) • Priests (8-10) • Purity (11-16) • Purity (17-20) • Priests (21-22) Ritual (23-27)• Theological Emphasis: The presence of the Lord demands holy living and constant redemption. • What is the message of Leviticus? Conviction: So What?• What should we believe? • The Lord is Holy and this is to be taken seriously. • The Lord desires to be in fellowship with us. • The Lord makes provision for us to maintain fellowship with him. • The sacrificial and festival system point to Christ. • How should we behave? • Maintain purity of life and access fellowship with the Lord through His provision. • Where does this fit? • A Manual of Sanctification Full of Pictures of Christ's Redemptive WorkNext Steps • Begin to read the Old Testament with a focus on grace, provision, predictions, and pictures that all lead eventually to Christ.• Reject a rules orientation to life.• Reorient your life to embrace a relationship perspective.This Week's Growth GuideGod's Word is both central and critical to your spiritual growth. We invite you to utilize the Growth Guide during the week to further your application of the Truth from the message.•. Monday - Leviticus 3:1-17•. Tuesday - Leviticus 16:1-34•. Wednesday - Leviticus 18:1-5•. Thursday - Leviticus 19:1-18•. Friday - Leviticus 19:19-37•. Saturday - Leviticus 23:1-22•. Sunday - Leviticus 23:23-44Home Church Questions • Read Leviticus 16:1-34.• Was there anything new or insightful in this message?• Was there anything you know you can or should immediately apply?• What did you struggle with in this message? What did not make sense or caused you to evaluate your own life more deeply?• How would your life personally, or the life of your family be different if you fully lived out the truths in this message?• Why is it important to recognize that no one was ever saved by keeping the law or using the sacrificial system? Salvation is and always has been by grace through faith (Eph. 2:1-10).• The Law and sacrificial system is about sanctification, i.e. maintaining relationship with God. What is a practical application of this truth?• What daily living principles might you glean from the categories of "unclean, clean and holy"?• Review how the festivals point to the work of Christ. How does this enhance your understanding of the inspiration of Scripture and God's unfolding redemptive plan.FinancesWeekly Budget 31,390Giving For 10/02 22,635Giving For 10/09 29,151 YTD Budget 470,846YTD Giving 421,220 OVER/(UNDER) (49,626) Generations CampaignTotal Pledge 1,535,065Received-to-date 1,657,980Fellowship 101 - November 6 | 9 AM New to Fellowship and ready to connect deeper? Join us for Fellowship 101, November 6, during the 9 AM worship service in the library. Hear about the mission and values of Fellowship and meet our ministry leaders.Register at fellowshipconway.org/register. New to Fellowship?We are so glad that you joined the Fellowship Family to worship this morning. If you are joining us for the first time or have been checking us out for a few weeks, we are excited you are here and would love to meet you. Please fill out the “Connect Card” and bring it to the Connection Center in the Atrium, we would love to say “hi” and give you a gift. Get Connected in a Home ChurchFellowship's desire is for everyone to be relationally connected. The primary way we do this is in Home Churches – small groups that meet in living rooms to apply God's Word, pray, and to serve together. Go to fellowshipconway.org/home church for more information. Feed the Need | October 23 | 10-2:00 p.m. Feed the Need is a one-day event to purchase and collect food to help feed thousands of people right here in Faulkner County and deliver a message of hope to struggling families. As part of this event, Fellowship will be hosting the Walmart Neighborhood Market on October 23, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. This means we will staff a semi truck to receive, sort, and load all the donations that are purchased at the Neighborhood Market. If you would like to volunteer, email Michael Harrison at mharrison@fellowshipconway.org or text 501-339-4222. For information about Feed the Need and a grocery shop for the items on the list Women's Directory | Stop by the Connection centerWith a desire for members to be relationally connected, ladies from the Women's Ministry are creating a private, online, password-protected Women's Directory (print versions by request only for those who participate). We hope the directory helps to put names with faces better and more easily connect! This will not be used for outside solicitation purposes, only for connecting with other Fellowship women. Come by the Connection Center and complete a simple information form by October 30th or email your info to tracylee3313@att.net. Operation Christmas ChildSee our insert for all things OCC including how to sign up to serve during National Collection week. Also, we have a table in the atrium for boxes to be filled and donated in honor of Booger Roach, who recently passed away. The Roach family has been heavily invested in all thing Operation Christmas Child and friends of the family are encouraged to pack a box in Booger's honor.
Two giving opportunities in November--the Nov. 5-6 Triennial National Collection and the Nov. 19 Annual Benefit--provide the faithful with direct ways to support the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS), and those she serves. In this edition of Catholic Military Life, the only official podcast of the AMS, Ms. Mary Lavin, Excutive Director of Major Giving and Planned Giving, shares why your private gift is so important.
I find out about the genus of succulents known as Aeoniums with National Collection holder Mellie Lewis, and answer two Ficus questions. For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/aeonium
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you'll hear about: Our guests' career paths at the Smithsonian, their work to help create a new Women's history museum, collecting BLM materials during protests, creating exhibits just as the pandemic closed the museum, and a discussion of their book on women's artifacts in the Smithsonian. Today's book is: Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection, a book that offers a unique and panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Portraits, photographs, paintings, political materials, signs, musical instruments, sports equipment, clothes, letters, ads, personal possessions, and other objects reveal the incredible stories of amazing women such as Phillis Wheatley, Julia Child, Sojourner Truth, Mary Cassat, Madame CJ Walker, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Till Mobley, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta, Phyllis Diller, Celia Cruz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Billie Jean King, and Silvia Rivera. Published to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, Smithsonian American Women is a deeply satisfying read and a reflection on how generations of women have defined what it means to be recognized in both the nation and the world. Our guest is: Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp, who is the Department Chair and Curator of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Dr. Weitekamp curates the Museum's social and cultural history of spaceflight collection, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and co-edited the ninth volume in the Artefacts series on the material culture of science and technology, Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013). She is currently completing a book on social and cultural history of space memorabilia. Our guest is: Dr. Michelle Anne Delaney, who is the Assistant Director for History and Culture of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dr. Delaney manages the Museum's research and scholarship team, and leads the intellectual program development for exhibitions, educational programming, publications, and digital scholarship; and directs strategic internal pan-Smithsonian projects, and external collaborations and university partnerships. An author and editor of several history of photography books, Dr. Delaney has also curated 25 Smithsonian exhibitions and web projects. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the co-creator and co-producer of the Academic Life. Listeners to this episode might also be interested in: Information in the National Archives about the 19th Amendment Because of Herstory webpage National Women's History Museum website Information on the 19th amendment from the National Parks Service The Women's Museum of California Women's history resources at the National Museum of American History You are smart and capable, but you aren't an island and neither are we. We reach across our mentor network to bring you experts about everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Here on the Academic Life channel, we embrace a broad definition of what it means to be an academic and to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today's knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. Wish we'd bring on an expert about something? DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you'll hear about: Our guests' career paths at the Smithsonian, their work to help create a new Women's history museum, collecting BLM materials during protests, creating exhibits just as the pandemic closed the museum, and a discussion of their book on women's artifacts in the Smithsonian. Today's book is: Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection, a book that offers a unique and panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Portraits, photographs, paintings, political materials, signs, musical instruments, sports equipment, clothes, letters, ads, personal possessions, and other objects reveal the incredible stories of amazing women such as Phillis Wheatley, Julia Child, Sojourner Truth, Mary Cassat, Madame CJ Walker, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Till Mobley, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta, Phyllis Diller, Celia Cruz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Billie Jean King, and Silvia Rivera. Published to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, Smithsonian American Women is a deeply satisfying read and a reflection on how generations of women have defined what it means to be recognized in both the nation and the world. Our guest is: Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp, who is the Department Chair and Curator of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Dr. Weitekamp curates the Museum's social and cultural history of spaceflight collection, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and co-edited the ninth volume in the Artefacts series on the material culture of science and technology, Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013). She is currently completing a book on social and cultural history of space memorabilia. Our guest is: Dr. Michelle Anne Delaney, who is the Assistant Director for History and Culture of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dr. Delaney manages the Museum's research and scholarship team, and leads the intellectual program development for exhibitions, educational programming, publications, and digital scholarship; and directs strategic internal pan-Smithsonian projects, and external collaborations and university partnerships. An author and editor of several history of photography books, Dr. Delaney has also curated 25 Smithsonian exhibitions and web projects. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the co-creator and co-producer of the Academic Life. Listeners to this episode might also be interested in: Information in the National Archives about the 19th Amendment Because of Herstory webpage National Women's History Museum website Information on the 19th amendment from the National Parks Service The Women's Museum of California Women's history resources at the National Museum of American History You are smart and capable, but you aren't an island and neither are we. We reach across our mentor network to bring you experts about everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Here on the Academic Life channel, we embrace a broad definition of what it means to be an academic and to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today's knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. Wish we'd bring on an expert about something? DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life
In this weeks episode, artist Maria Gabler walks us through her solo exhibition titled 'TRAMA' at PROXYCO Gallery located in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The show runs through July 20th - go see it! María Gabler (b. 1989) earned her BFA from the Catholic University of Chile and MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Chile. Gabler has exhibited extensively in Chile, including the solo shows “La Ventana” (2022) at Galería Gabriela Mistral, “Anfibia” (2021) at MAM Chiloé, “La Galería” (2017) at Sala de Arte CCU, and “Mirador” (2015) at Galería Tajamar. She has also participated in several group exhibitions in spaces such as Matucana 100, Galería D21, Galería Macchina, Galería Local, and Museo de la Solidaridad, among others. Her work has been recognized with the Sustainable Pavilion Award from the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Chile at ChACO Fair 2011; FONDART 2015, 2017, and 2020; Third Place in 2015 and First Place in 2021 in the CCU Art Fellowship and the Ca.Sa Foundation/Collection Award 2021, among others. In addition, since 2020, she has been part of the National Collection of Contemporary Art of Chile at the NationalCenter of Contemporary Art in Cerrillos. PROXYCO presents the works of emerging and mid-career artists from Latin America. Through exhibitions with artists that we represent as well as collaborations with galleries from Latin America and beyond, we aim to advance the understanding of work by artists of Latin American descent in an international art context. For PROXYCO, the term “Latin American” is not an essentializing classifier, but rather a fluid framework to value and engage with art that is informed by both a distinct cultural heritage and an ever-widening global perspective. Located in Manhattan's Lower East Side, PROXYCO was founded by Alexandra Morris (b. Mexico City) and Laura Saenz (b. Bogota). Links: Maria Gabler PROXYCO Gallery
“To have even a brief conversation with artist Michael E. Taylor is to dive headfirst into a deep pool of scientific and intellectual inquiry. Taylor has always been an extremely analytical artist, responding with equal fervor to his intellectual encounters with scientific ideas, art history, philosophy, or current events. Whether inspired by formal quality of geometry, the Higgs boson particle, or the moral implications of artificial intelligence, Taylor's work is ultimately about investigation.” – Museum of Glass, Tacoma, solo show, Traversing Parallels, 2017/2018. Widely-renowned for his cut and laminated glass works, geometric constructions, and fractal abstractions inspired by everything from subatomic particles to music, Michael E. Taylor first used glass while attending a workshop at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. He was struck by the material's heat and spontaneity, a dynamic opposite from the deliberate and extended processes for firing and shaping ceramics. Dedicated to art and education for over 49 years, the artist was born in Lewisberg, Tennessee, in 1944, where he initially studied ceramics while working towards a Bachelor of Science in Art Education from Tennessee State University. Studying ceramics honed his intuitive sense of form, color, and design; skills which would later be important to his glass career. One of the first generation of artists to learn from the founders of the Studio Glass movement, Taylor experienced the early days of glass through interactions with Harvey Littleton, Fritz Dreisbach, and Marvin Lipofsky. As a young student, a Fulbright Hayes Grant to Scandinavia introduced him to the factories of Kosta-Boda Glasbruke and Johansfors Glasbruke, as well as artists of the region, including Anna Warff. Taylor's artistic career has been intertwined with decades as a university professor, including a more than 20-year tenure as a professor in the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology, invited Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Campus da Caprica, Portugal, 2005 – 2013, and instructor at schools in the US such as Pilchuck, Penland, and the Corning Museum of Glass. His career in academia made it possible to experiment and explore new ideas through his sculpture instead of feeling pressure to repeat popular works for monetary sales. The academic setting also allowed Taylor to continue to explore scientific, philosophical, and artistic ideas. While at the College of Idaho and teaching the history of modern art, Taylor's directive led to political and visual expressions of the Russian revolution and artists of constructivism. The hard lines and acute angles of constructivism of the 1920s continued to scientific theory and theoretical physics. Using glass with scientific exactness and austerity resulted in further architectural form and shapes of accuracy. Readings of future science and cultural futurism led to issues of DNA and binary systems as they related to laminations in his work. Taylor states: “Art reflects thought and ideals of the period in which it is made. It can relate to predictions for the future. My work speaks of the importance of science and technology and its eventual dominance through Artificial Intelligence.” Taylor's honors and awards are many and include the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant, 2009, 2011; Luso – American Foundation Grant, Portugal, 2002 -2007; Outstanding Visual Artist Award, Arts and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester, New York, 2001; College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Research and Development Grant, RIT, 2000; Grand Prize, The International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa, Japan, 1988; National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Forums Grant, 1985-86 and Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1984-85. Other educational awards and opportunities include a Lewis Comfort Tiffany Grant, Penland School Scholarship, and The American – Scandinavian Foundation Grant. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; the National Collection of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington; Asheville Museum of Art, North Carolina; Racine Museum of Art, Racine, Wisconsin; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Glas Museum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Kanazawa City Museum, Kanazawa, Japan; and Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Kawasaki-Shi, Japan, to name only a few. Inviting viewers to utilize scientific-like observations to analyze the implications of a rapidly changing world, Taylor's sculpture is both triumphant and cautionary, simultaneously celebrating technological breakthroughs and worrying about their implications. By using glass to make these theoretical connections, the artist inspires contemplation of social and scientific issues and continues to take the material of glass into new expressive terrain. States Taylor: “The race is on in all technological advanced countries for the discovery of human consciousness for AI. I predict it will be the last frontier of human intellect. I have constructed a laminated slab of color blocks which represent the codes for the human consciousness. I see it as a kind of Rosetta Stone of translation from one language to another – binary to English. The RS interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to Greek language allowed us to make the intellectual and cultural jump. “I see Codes as containing the information for making the final leap from human consciousness to that of machines. This will be a discovery of epic proportions. This would be the beginning of a new world of solutions to puzzles such as eternal life, interplanetary travel, and the discovery of philosophic truth for each individual human.”
This year U.S. Catholics have an opportunity to contribute to a special collection at Sunday Mass for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS). In this edition of Catholic Military Life, the only official podcast of the AMS, the AMS Chancellor, Father Robert R. Cannon, Ch, Col, USAF (Ret.), whose home Diocese of Venice, FL, takes up the collection the weekend of May 14-15, 2022, shares what's at stake for the exercise of Catholic faith in the U.S. Military.
#54 - Organic flower grower Polly Nicholson from Bayntun Flowers shares her small business journey. Passionate about tulips, she also grows narcissi, alliums, peonies, clematis, sweet peas, bearded irises, delphiniums, zinnias and dahlias. She supplies wholesale flowers to florists, runs workshops and is also in-house florist for residential properties locally. Growing up in the countryside, her parents grew very few flowers in their garden. So Polly used to go and pick wildflowers, and developed a lifelong passion for picking flowers. After university, she worked as an antiquarian book specialist at Sotheby's in London. As part of her role, she catalogued a gardening catalogue, which built on her childhood passion for picking and foraging. Once married and having had children, she signed up for a course in Practical Horticulture, which The English Gardening School were running at Chelsea Physic Garden. And she found the course life-changing. Fifteen years ago, she and her family moved to Blacklands, a Georgian house in North West Wiltshire, which has a series of walled gardens. Missing the flowers she'd been used to buying at New Covent Garden Flower Market in London, Polly decided to begin growing her own. And she started by planting tulip bulbs. Five years later, Bayntun Flowers was born. Initially, she was selling hand-tied bunches and floral designs for small events locally. Polly brought in Arne Maynard to help with the design of the garden. And he suggested that she took on a Head Gardener. Polly discusses the different varieties of tulips that she currently grows, including an annual crop and historic tulips. The latter have recently been awarded National Collection status with Plant Heritage. She also discusses her numerous sustainability practices, the range of workshops that she has planned for this year and her incredible press coverage. She talks about the impact of the pandemic on her business, together with her 2022 plans. Listening to this episode, you'll hear how passionate Polly is about sustainability and growing flowers, in particular tulips. And I'm sure you'll really enjoy the interview!Show notes are available on the My Small Business & Me website: https://mysmallbusinessandme.com/episode54Flower Photography (iPhone Version) Online Course: https://learn.flowerona.com/flower-photography-iphone-version
Having faith over fear is where the living begins. Jodi offer 6 scriptures to match the 6 fears we deal with every day. If you're living in fear you are living outside of the faith and promises that God provides.Also this is the NATIONAL COLLECTION week for Operation Christmas Child to support this amazing charity. Check out their website today. https://www.samaritanspurse.org/
When I first started talking to today's guest, my initial thought was “surely, it doesn't happen here…” although I knew in my heart that bullying, cyber bullying and other abuses are indeed happening within homeschool families all around the world. I learned so much from our conversation, and I know you will, too. Today, I'm joined by Candice Dugger of Bullied, Broken, Redeemed. She's going to give us as parents a lot of critical information to prepare our children for the dangers they face and then to help them navigate their way out of it in a healthy manner if they do become victims of a bully or abuser of any sort. She will give us a lot of statistics and other helpful information to better equip us to deal with an issue that almost every young person will be confronted with at some point in their lives, so I encourage you to pay close attention to what she has to say today. There are still places around the world where the name of Jesus has never been heard. That's why Operation Christmas Child is sending the gospel, through simple shoebox gifts, to the ends of the earth. The Greatest Journey follow up discipleship program is teaching millions of children to put their faith in Christ, and how to share that faith with others. As a result, entire communities are being transformed. National Collection week is November 15-22! To learn more about this global evangelism movement, visit samaritanspurse.org/occAdditional Resources:Find out more about Candice Dugger and her ministry Bullied, Broken, and Redeemed at www.bulliedbrokenredeemed.com. Find out more about Bullied Broken and Redeemed and subscribe today using code: LEADERSHIP for $30 off. Click HERE to get this amazing discount!
In 1917, a New Jersey company began hiring young women to paint luminous marks on the faces of watches and clocks. As time went on, they began to exhibit alarming symptoms, and a struggle ensued to establish the cause. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of the Radium Girls, a landmark case in labor safety. We'll also consider some resurrected yeast and puzzle over a posthumous journey. Intro: Joseph Underwood was posting phony appeals for money in 1833. The earliest known written reference to baseball appeared in England. Sources for our feature on the Radium Girls: Claudia Clark, Radium Girls : Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935, 1997. Ross M. Mullner, Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy, 1999. Robert R. Johnson, Romancing the Atom: Nuclear Infatuation From the Radium Girls to Fukushima, 2012. Dolly Setton, "The Radium Girls: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark," Natural History 129:1 (December 2020/January 2021), 47-47. Robert D. LaMarsh, "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women," Professional Safety 64:2 (February 2019), 47. Angela N.H. Creager, "Radiation, Cancer, and Mutation in the Atomic Age," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 45:1 (February 2015), 14-48. Robert Souhami, "Claudia Clark, Radium Girls," Medical History 42:4 (1998), 529-530. Ainissa Ramirez, "A Visit With One of the Last 'Radium Girls,'" MRS Bulletin 44:11 (2019), 903-904. "Medicine: Radium Women," Time, Aug. 11, 1930. "Poison Paintbrush," Time, June 4, 1928. "Workers From Factory May Get Federal Honors," Asbury Park Press, June 27, 2021. John Williams, "Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Kate Moore's 'The Radium Girls,'" New York Times, April 30, 2017. Jack Brubaker, "Those 'Radium Girls' of Lancaster," [Lancaster, Pa.] Intelligencer Journal / Lancaster New Era, May 9, 2014. William Yardley, "Mae Keane, Whose Job Brought Radium to Her Lips, Dies at 107," New York Times, March 13, 2014. Fred Musante, "Residue From Industrial Past Haunts State," New York Times, June 24, 2001. Denise Grady, "A Glow in the Dark, and a Lesson in Scientific Peril," New York Times, Oct. 6, 1998. Martha Irvine, "Dark Secrets Come to Light in New History of 'Radium Girls,'" Los Angeles Times, Oct. 4, 1998. Marc Mappen, "Jerseyana," New York Times, March 10, 1991. "Radium Poisoning Finally Claims Inventor of Luminous Paint After Fight to Harness Terrific Force of Atom," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 25, 1928. "Two of Women Radium Victims Offer Selves for Test While Alive," [Danville, Va.] Bee, May 29, 1928. "Death Agony From Radium," [Brisbane, Qld.] Daily Standard, May 15, 1928. "To Begin Two Suits Against Radium Co.," New York Times, June 24, 1925. "U.S. Starts Probe of Radium Poison Deaths in Jersey," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 19, 1925. Listener mail: Carolyn Wilke, "How Do We Know What Ancient People Ate? Their Dirty Dishes," Atlantic, July 24, 2021. Chris Baraniuk, "The Treasure Inside Beer Lost in a Shipwreck 120 Years Ago," BBC, June 22, 2021. Fiona Stocker, "A Beer Brewed From an Old Tasmanian Shipwreck," BBC, Dec. 7, 2018. Mary Esch, "Taste of History: Yeast From 1886 Shipwreck Makes New Brew," AP News, March 15, 2019. National Collection of Yeast Cultures. "National Collection of Yeast Cultures," Wikipedia (accessed Aug. 29, 2021). "History of Missing Linck," Missing Linck Festival (accessed Sep. 3, 2021). "Missing Linck Festival Arrives … Finally!" The Gnarly Gnome, June 4, 2021. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Tim Ellis, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, on the painting by Jack B Yeats that has been bought for the national collection.
Monique Gudgeon is on a mission to create a botanic garden. And what better way to get started than to build a new National Plant Collection. In creating a garden from scratch, one of her priorities is to bring in species which both work with the surrounding Dorset landscape and that are in need of conservation. There is a huge diversity of garden plants that need to be looked after so cultivars aren't lost when they go out of fashion. National Plant Collections were created by the charity Plant Heritage to ensure these plants are preserved and documented for the future. Of the plant groups that don't currently have a custodian, Monique decided to choose forsythia - deciduous shrubs often overlooked as just a hedging plant which burst into vibrant yellow flowers in early spring. In the process of sourcing and propagating all the varieties needed for a collection, Monique has become utterly fascinated by them and their history. Helen Mark hears the story of Monique's successes and failures so far, and explores what it takes to build and maintain a National Plant Collection. We also meet people behind other collections and hear what drives their particular fascination with a group of plants, and how they fit in to their landscapes. We hear the stories of Benjamin Matthews, one of the youngest holders of a National Collection and how his love of hostas led to an unlikely friendship; Lucy Skellorn who has been collecting the irises bred by her great-great grandfather Sir Michael Foster; and Anne Greenall who has a spectacular collection of hydrangeas which thrive in her windswept coastal garden in west Scotland. Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Sophie Anton
The Talking Dirty podcast heads on tour for the first time ever, visiting the garden of extraordinary plantsman and Botanist, Richard Hobbs. Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis are wowed by his amazing Muscari (he holds the National Collection), plus Scillas, Anemones, Pulsatillas and so much more! PLANT LIST Muscari Maxibell Muscari azureum Muscari aucheri Pseudomuscari pallens 'Morganhimmel' Muscari macrocarpum Muscari armeniacum 'Venus' Muscari armeniacum 'Peppermint' Allium ursinum 'Golden Fleece' Allium triquetrum Narcissus assoanus Narcissus 'More and More' Tropaeolum tricolor Tropaeolum smithii Tulipa 'Little Princess' Tulipa 'Persian Pearl' Tulip orphanidea 'Flava' Dodecatheon meadia/Primula meadia Primula auricula 'Helen Ruane' Pulsatilla vulgaris ´Papageno´ Pulsatilla vulgaris subsp. grandis 'Budapest Blue' Lathyrus vernus Lathyrus vernus 'Alboroseus' Scilla bithynica Alliaria petiolata - garlic mustard Narcissus poeticus Scilla cilicica Scilla peruviana Scilla liliohyacinthus Scilla amoena Scilla armenica Scilla sibericaScilla autumnalis Corydalis solida Corydalis 'Tory MP' Corydalis flexuosa ‘Golden Panda' Corydalis 'Spinners' Anemone nemorosa 'Yerda Ramusem' Anemone nemorosa Anemone apennina Anemone nemorosa 'Monstrosa' Arum creticum Arum creticum 'Album'
Yeast strains old, yeast strains new, yeast strains captured, yeast strains brewed. Bean, Thandi, and Lisa talk about yeast. Its flavours, temperatures, properties, and wonders.Beers in this Episode:Leffe - Blonde, Belgium (https://leffe.com/en/leffe-blond)Western Herd - Siege Pale Ale, Ireland (https://www.westernherd.com/product/siege-pale-ale/)Metalman - Atomium Belgian Amber, Ireland (https://metalmanbrewing.com/beer/)Links:National Collection of Yeast Cultures in UK, with more than 4,000 strains of yeast collected over 65 years - https://www.ncyc.co.uk/Interview by Jill Cloutier with Dr. Ian Roberts of the National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) talks about yeast: its history, what it needs to survive, its role in the ecosystem, and the process of fermentation - https://sustainableworldradio.com/the-amazing-yeast-tiny-ubiquitous-and-invaluable/Yeast sticks / logs: https://www.google.ie/amp/s/medievalmeadandbeer.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/scandinavian-yeast-logs-yeast-rings/amp/Yeast in brewing: https://beerconnoisseur.com/articles/role-yeast-brewingChoosing yeast strains to brew with: https://byo.com/article/choose-the-right-yeast-for-your-beer/Thandi is wearing a beer ingredients tee in this episode, get yours here: https://craftgeek.co/collections/pastel-neon/products/love-beer-tshirtFollow the Beer Ladies here:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWBi3lGBJmdNZtLk-mj4cXgInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/beerladiespodcast/Twitter - https://twitter.com/beerladiespodFacebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/beerladiespodcastWebsite - http://beerladiespodcast.com/Please like, rate, share, and subscribe - you know the drill ;)Cheers!
An episode for daffodil-lovers everywhere! A chat with Caroline Thomson of Backhouse Rossie, location of Scotland’s Daffodil Festival and the National Collection of Backhouse daffodils. Caroline Thomson is a direct descendant of the Backhouse family and in our conversation we talk about the family history with daffodils, as well as their surprising links with science, and her efforts to rewild part of the estate. Full details about the online Daffodil Festival are on the website here and you can also follow Backhouse Rossie on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. You can also follow the Scottish Garden on Instagram and Twitter.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Publishing Office is taking on a massive project to digitize every federal document in its National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information.
A Different Tweed: Fashion Conversations with Bronwyn Cosgrave
Claire Wilcox - the Senior Fashion curator at London's Victoria and Albert Museum discusses her new book, Patchwork A Life Amongst Clothes. As the title suggests, Patchwork is a memoir. But as the conversation unfolds, it becomes clear that Patchwork is an unconventional memoir. The original storytelling method Claire conceived for this book portrays the facts of her life in an abstract manner, prompting the reader to imagine the finer details. The writing process, Claire explains, was as much of a therapeutic exercise as a creative release. She embarked on this book in 2014. She then experienced the passing of her beloved parents and also undertook the most challenging curatorial project of her career - staging the Metropolitan Museum's blockbuster exhibition, Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty at the V&A. Claire Wlicox has worked closely with some of the biggest names in fashion from McQueen to Vivienne Westwood and the Versace family. And along with discussing her new book, she provides a peek behind the closed doors of the V&A, its groundbreaking fashion department, where she has worked for decades. She also discusses some of the legendary professionals who elevated the museum onto the world stage including Sir Roy Strong and Valerie D. Mendes. Related Reading Claire Wilcox, Patchwork: My Life Amongst Clothes (Bloomsbury Publishing) Claire Wilcox, “Who Gives A Frock?” - Valerie Mendes, Jean Muir and the Building of the National Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Fashion Theory, 8 June 2018 Claire Wilcox & Valerie D. Mendes, 20th Century Fashion In Detail (Thames & Hudson) Sir Roy Strong, Splendours and Miseries, The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967 - 1987 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Join The Conversation To send episode ideas, feedback, ask questions and also enquire about sponsorship and partnership opportunities please email the host and creator: Bronwyn@Bronwyncosgrave.com
Claudette Dean Expressing the Inexpressible Through Color, Form, and Word Natural mystic and visionary, Claudette Dean, has been practicing as a visual artist, poet, and author. Her spiritually based work expresses universal themes such as love, light, and connection, and is often inspired by nature. Issues of identity and womanhood are also often at the forefront of her work. Having successfully practiced as a painter and mixed media artist since the early 1990’s, her portfolio includes four solo exhibitions, numerous group shows both national and international, an award for excellence in Fine Art from the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and inclusion in most major art collections in the Bahamas, including the National Collection. In 2010, Claudette first added the written and spoken word to her arsenal of creativity when she was prompted to write a series of love poems to the Divine. These poems are featured in her book, Inner Sanctum, along with original paintings from her second solo exhibition. She went on to write and perform Resurrection, a performance art video which was featured at The National Art Gallery in their 6th National Exhibition. Then in 2018, she published her first novel, Smelling Roses - A Tale of Connection and Transformation. Claudette considers her journey to self discovery through her art, as most notable, and the greatest measure of her success, those who’ve mentioned being touched by her work. In her own words: “I create because it is my place of connection. Embracing the unknown, I continue exploring and expressing from this place of connection as I follow the Golden Thread. Through the process, I discover my gifts, and through the work, I share them. And the journey continues.” In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, Claudette works from her rebuilt home studio and office, and resides with husband, Donald Dean, on the island of Grand Bahama. Buddhist Biohacker Podcast https://www.lisamgunshore.com/podcast Buddhist Biohacker Partners https://www.lisamgunshore.com/partners Become A Patron or Donate https://www.lisamgunshore.com/patron
In this week’s episode I’m speaking to Fiona Edmond of Green Island Gardens about one of the stars of the winter garden, the Hamamelis aka witch-hazel. Fiona is the holder of the National Collection of Hamamelis and she talks about their cultivation and goes through some of the fool-proof and some of the choicer varieties. I dare you not to buy one after listening! Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: Fig Wasps This episode is sponsored by gardencourses.com What we talk about: Fiona’s background and that of Green Island Gardens How Fiona came to have the National Collection of Hamamelis Their preferred soil and aspect and their hardiness Pruning Propagation Potential pests and diseases (hint: this is short answer!) What can they be underplanted with? Do they look particularly good in one sport of setting/against a certain type of plant as a background? The flower colour spectrum Easy to grow cultivars and Fiona’s favourites About Green Island Gardens Green Island Gardens are private gardens, open for the public. Professionally designed by its owner Fiona Edmond, they are laid out as a series of structured gardens displaying a huge range of unusual trees, shrubs, perennials, and bulbs - 'A Plantsman’s Paradise’. Surely one of the best gardens open to visit in Essex. Recommended in Great British Gardens 2019 and Essex Days Out. 20 acres of Water Gardens, Seaside Garden, Japanese Garden, Gravel Garden, Woodland Gardens, Island beds and stunning colour everywhere. There is a tearoom serving light lunches, home-made teas and cream teas. The nursery offers plants all seen growing in the gardens. We now offer mail order service for the nursery during the lockdown period. We also run different courses and special events. Visitors will be able to enjoy flat and easy walking throughout the gardens. Links Green Island Gardens Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuTfQ6Aq6evRmBZ0fjfqwdA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greenislandgardens Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/greenislandgardensuk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenislandgdn
Join Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Lou DiPalma, Managing Partner of Garnet Capital Advisors, LLC located in Harrison, New York. Lou has 30 years of experience as a loan portfolio broker. Lou's asset brokerage experience includes credit cards, installment loans, mortgage and commercial loan products. At Garnet, he manages the origination and sale efforts. Prior to Garnet, Lou was a founding member of the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Loan Sales Group where he provided loan brokerage and valuation expertise to the community bank sector. Lou earned a master's degree from the American Institute of Banking and a Bachelor of Science Degree from St. Lawrence University. He has written for and been widely quoted in numerous industry publications including American Banker, The Financial Times (London) and Collections & Credit Risk. He is a frequent speaker at industry-sponsored events and has chaired Source Media's National Collection and Credit Risk Conference. Capital Club Radio Hosted by: Michael Flock Sponsored by: Flock Specialty Finance Providing a forum for leaders in the middle market segment which has typically been undeserved by traditional banking. Listeners gain valuable business insights and perspectives to deal with market uncertainty. Topics include: key success factors, both personal and professional, dealing with adversity, outlook for the industry and your business. For more info about Michael Flock and Flock Specialty Finance visit: http://www.FlockFinance.com To listen to more episodes visit: http://www.CapitalClubRadio.com To nominate or submit a guest request visit: https://www.OnAirGuest.com To view more photos visit: http://www.ProBusinessPictures.com ‹ › × × Previous Next jQuery(function() { // Set blueimp gallery options jQuery.extend(blueimp.Gallery.prototype.options, { useBootstrapModal: false, hidePageScrollbars: false }); });
This week I’m speaking to Nick de Rothschild, President of the Nerine and Amaryllid Society and of Exbury Gardens in the New Forest. The gardens play host to a huge range of plants providing interest throughout the year, but one of jewels in the crown of Exbury is the collection of Nerines. There are many types of Nerines planted in the garden and an exhibition is currently underway of one particular species, sarniensis. We talk about the different types, how to grow them successfully and about some of the intricacies and intrigue of plant breeding. (Apologies for sounding muffled, I was wearing a mask!) Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: House Spiders About Nick de Rothschild Nick de Rothschild, President of the Nerine and Amaryllid Society and of Exbury Gardens in the New Forest. Now celebrating more than 100 years, Exbury Gardens encompasses a spectacular collection of woodland, herbaceous, contemporary, formal and wildflower gardens. At over 200 acres, these impressive gardens located in Hampshire, were created and are now managed by the Rothschild family. They boast a number of special collections including world-famous rhododendrons and azaleas, unprecedented swathes of hydrangeas and the National Collection of Nyssa trees - https://www.exbury.co.uk/gardens What we talk about: The different nerine species Growing nerines outdoors and under glass The history of Nerine sarniensis cultivars Breeding Nerine sarniensis Pests and diseases Links: www.exbury.co.uk Nerine & Amaryllid Society
Claudette Dean was born in 1954 and raised on the beautiful north shore of Lake Huron in Blind River, Ontario, Canada. In 1975, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Literature from the University of Windsor. She spent the summer of '75 continuing her studies at The University of Nice, France, and it was while studying there, that she first sensed an intuitive pull towards the visual arts—a direction which she was not yet ready to embark upon. After living and working in Toronto, and then in Montreal, in 1979 Claudette left the shores of her native land and crossed the ocean to marry her fiancee, Donald, and make The Bahamas her new home. Settling into her new life, she worked as a French teacher, and in 1982 gave birth to her son, Donald Jr. She spent the next eleven years owning and operating two local successful businesses. At a time in her life when the status quo was no longer enough, and as a search for Self intensified, the visual arts came back into focus. She headed into the waters of creativity and soon found herself joyfully swept up in the flow. Claudette totally devoted herself to her craft. Through focus, dedication, and consistent studio work—along with the mentorship of noted Bahamian artist and sculptor Antonius Roberts, and the support of family and friends—a successful career as an artist ensued. Beginning in the early 1990s, her voyage has encompassed four solo exhibitions, countless group and juried shows on both national and international levels, an award for Excellence in the Realm of Fine Art from the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, and the pleasure of seeing her work in the most prestigious collections at home and abroad, including The National Collection of The Bahamas. In 2005, Dr. Erica M. James, then Director of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas wrote: “Claudette Dean paints from the spirit, what she believes in that moment is true… for her, and artists like her, art can become a medium in and of itself. The process of art making can initiate a spiritual transformation on the part of the artist, and the potential also exists for this spirit to move in the viewer as they engage the work.”Claudette DeanThe process of art making did indeed initiate spiritual transformation on the part of the artist—and Claudette considers the greatest measure of her success to be those who have expressed being moved by the transformational spirit of her work. Beginning in the early 1990s, she navigated the waters of creativity primarily as a painter and mixed media artist. In 2010, acting upon an intuitive prompt, she wrote a series of poems to compliment a body of work for her second solo exhibition. The poems—love poems to the divine—and the paintings, are featured in a book named for this exhibition, Inner Sanctum. Claudette subsequently broadened her sights to include the written and spoken word, and adjusted her compass accordingly. The Circles of Life, a personal essay describing her spiritual awakening, was selected for publication in the 2012 edition of WomanSpeak—A Journal of Literature and Art by Caribbean Woman—a publication which from its 4th volume in 1999, has featured Claudette’s artwork, and has selected her paintings for the covers of the 2010 and 2014 editions. She went on to write and perform Resurrection, a performance art video which was shown at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in their 6th National Exhibition, Kingdom Come. The producer of the video, David Mackey of Mackeymedia.com, described the video as Claudette’s Magnus Opus and wrote: “Seeing Claudette's work, one can't help but conclude that she is spiritually connected to unwritten laws that foster harmonious coexistence free from the superficial veils of delusion that mask our true selves."In 2016, Claudette joined a local writers group. A story she wrote in response to a prompt given at one of the meetings would, over the next two years, spill out into a full blown novel. In 2018, with the publication of Smelling Roses––A Tale of Connection and Transformation, Claudette became an author. “Claudette Dean’s inspirational artistry now manifests itself in this intriguing book written in her unique style. A very plausible story, it is interspersed with intuited messages of Universal truth illuminating The Way. Smelling Roses is a beautiful thought-provoking work from a spiritually guided writer.” — Barbara R.H. Chester, founder of the Grand Bahama LabyrinthIn Claudette's own words, “Embracing the unknown, I continue exploring and expressing from my place of connection as I follow the Golden Thread. Through the process, I discover my gifts, and through the work, I share them. And the journey continues.”In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, Claudette works from her rebuilt home studio and office, and resides with husband, Donald Dean, on the island of Grand Bahama. www.claudettedean.com
Skulls give researchers a great deal of insight into how an animal might have evolved, and skulls can be sensibly compared between species and groups of animals. The 10,000 species of bird around the world are what’s left of an even more diverse group, the dinosaurs. But research on their skulls has revealed that despite the birds’ exceptional diversity, they evolve far more slowly than their dinosaur relatives ever did. This is one of the findings of a huge skull mapping project at the Natural History Museum led by Anjali Goswami. Marnie Chesterton delights Adam Rutherford with what she has recently learned about the single-celled fungus that is yeast. She recently visited the National Collection of Yeast Cultures in Norwich, which stores hundreds of thousands of strains of yeast. She discovered that yeast is not only responsible for the production and subtle flavours of bread, yeast and chocolate, but also that some species of yeast can actually clean carbon dioxide from the air and can be used to feed livestock. The Science Museum Group looks after over 7.3 million items. As with most museums, the objects you see on display when you visit is only the tip of the iceberg of the entire collection. Up until now, many of the remainder (300,000 objects) has been stored in Blythe House in London. But now the collection is being moved to a purpose-built warehouse in Wiltshire. The move is a perfect opportunity for curators to see what’s there, re-catalogue long hidden gems and to conserve and care for their treasures. But during the process they have discovered a number of unidentified items that have been mislabelled or not catalogued properly in the past and some of them are just so mysterious, or esoteric, that the Science Museum needs the aid of the public to help identify them, and their uses. This week, Jessica Bradford, the keeper of collection engagement at the Science Museum is asking Inside Science listeners if they recognise, or can shed light on the possible use of the ‘glassware’ in the picture above. Send suggestions to Email: bbcinsidescience@bbc.co.uk or mysteryobject@sciencemuseum.ac.uk Presenter – Adam Rutherford Producers – Fiona Roberts & Rory Galloway
This week I’m talking to Vicki Cooke of Plant Heritage. Plant Heritage is a UK charity that works to conserve cultivated garden plants, predominantly through the National Plant Collection scheme and their Plant Guardians initiative. Think National Plant Collections are the preserve of stately homes with huge gardens or horticultural institutions? Not at all! In fact, you could start you own on an allotment, in your greenhouse or porch, you could choose a genera with a 1000 species or just one and choose anything from trees to houseplants. All you need is a passion for a particular group of plants and you can join the ranks of experts and plant fans helping to look after our cultivated plants for future generations. Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: Gooseberry Sawfly About Vicki Cooke: Vicki Cooke is the Conservation Manager at Plant Heritage, and has spent much of her career delving into plants and their history. From Garden Organic's Heritage Seed Library, growing and saving seed from heirloom vegetables, to the Hampton Court Palace kitchen garden and now at Plant Heritage, Vicki has always been passionate about growing and conserving our garden plants. What We Discuss: What is Plant Heritage National Collections and why they are important The Missing Genera project Some of the genera that don’t already have a home What is involved in becoming a National Collection holder? How you can take part Links: www.plantheritage.org.uk Missing Genera top 10 for 2020, plus a link to the long list of all genera without a National Plant Collection How to start a National Plant Collection Join and support the National Plant Collections Get in touch: Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk Website www.rootsandall.co.uk Twitter @rootsandall Instagram @rootsandallpod Help me keep the podcast free & independent! Support me on Patreon Or donate as much or as little as you like at GoFundMe
Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity and Vision from the National Collection (Smithsonian Book, 2019) is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Listen as Dr. Christina Gessler talks with two curators at the Smithsonian about their work in creating this book. Margaret A. Weitekamp, Ph.D., is the Department Chair and Curator of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Michelle Delaney is the Assistant Director for History and Culture of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dr. Christina Gessler’s background is in women’s history, and literature. She works as a historian and photographer. In seeking the extraordinary in the ordinary, Gessler writes the histories of largely unknown women, and takes many, many photos in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity and Vision from the National Collection (Smithsonian Book, 2019) is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Listen as Dr. Christina Gessler talks with two curators at the Smithsonian about their work in creating this book. Margaret A. Weitekamp, Ph.D., is the Department Chair and Curator of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Michelle Delaney is the Assistant Director for History and Culture of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dr. Christina Gessler’s background is in women’s history, and literature. She works as a historian and photographer. In seeking the extraordinary in the ordinary, Gessler writes the histories of largely unknown women, and takes many, many photos in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity and Vision from the National Collection (Smithsonian Book, 2019) is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Listen as Dr. Christina Gessler talks with two curators at the Smithsonian about their work in creating this book. Margaret A. Weitekamp, Ph.D., is the Department Chair and Curator of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Michelle Delaney is the Assistant Director for History and Culture of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dr. Christina Gessler’s background is in women’s history, and literature. She works as a historian and photographer. In seeking the extraordinary in the ordinary, Gessler writes the histories of largely unknown women, and takes many, many photos in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity and Vision from the National Collection (Smithsonian Book, 2019) is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Listen as Dr. Christina Gessler talks with two curators at the Smithsonian about their work in creating this book. Margaret A. Weitekamp, Ph.D., is the Department Chair and Curator of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Michelle Delaney is the Assistant Director for History and Culture of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dr. Christina Gessler’s background is in women’s history, and literature. She works as a historian and photographer. In seeking the extraordinary in the ordinary, Gessler writes the histories of largely unknown women, and takes many, many photos in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I talk to Philip Oostenbrink about his National Collection of Aspidistra cultivars and answer a question about watering snake plants, and we hear from listener Roos. For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/2020/5/1/episode-138-aspidistras
Living stones or Lithops are fascinating plants - tiny, tough and very beautiful. I visited Abbey Brook Cactus Nursery in the Peak District of the UK to see the National Collection of Lithops species and learn more about these curious succulents. For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/2019/11/1/episode-115-living-stones-aka-lithops
At Sunday Masses the weekend of Nov. 9-10, most Catholic parishes throughout the United States will take up a second collection. Proceeds will go to support the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS). The AMS is the only Catholic jurisdiction responsible for providing pastoral care to Catholics in the U.S. Armed Services, VA Medical Centers, civilian service to the federal government beyond U.S. borders, and the families of these populations. Catholics who attend Sunday Mass in interdenominational base chapels where no second collections are taken my nonetheless contribute through the AMS Appeal. For more information on the National Collection, visit milarch.org/nationalcollection. For more information on the AMS Appeal, visit milarch.org/amsappeal. In this special edition of Catholic Military Life, the only official podcast of the AMS, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Greg Tomlin share from personal experience how AMS-endorsed Catholic priest-chaplains and pastoral programs are indispensable for the free exercise of Catholic faith in the U.S. Military.
In this episode, continue exploring Ryan and Lime's Australian journey, this time with a visit to the Australian National Bonsai Collection. Ryan and Lime discuss the collection with curators Lee Taafe and Samuel Thompson, diving into its origins, the move to a new facility, and the work these two are doing to bring this collection to its full potential. Australian bonsai is rapidly growing and evolving, and this collection is at its forefront.Hosted by Ryan NeilRecorded by Michael Lime Allen
In this episode of ‘My favourite item, unraveling Brisbane’s history piece by piece’ we sit on the pew in the St Andrew’s Uniting Church with Noel Adsett, Chairman of the Heritage Committee of the Church Council of St Andrews, who shares with us the many stories contained with a special space. Want to visit? St Andrew’s Uniting Church is open Monday to Friday, 11am to 2pm. A guide is on hand to help you uncover the history behind this beautiful building. A biography of Rev Dr Ernest Merrington, complied by Noel, can be found here: http://heritage.saintandrews.org.au/rev-dr-ernest-northcroft-merrington/ With special thanks: Mr Noel Adsett, Chairman of the Heritage Committee of the Church Council of St Andrews Know something more about this item? Post a comment! Moments in history are shared experiences and helping museums find out more about items in their collection is a great way to become involved in documenting Brisbane’s heritage. Music: Aliaksei Yukhevich, Light Corporate, jamendo.com, Licensed. Image: Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. Chaplain Ernest Northcroft Merrington (right) conducting a communion service for members of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the "Apex"; National Collection of the Australian War Memorial (CO4178); Public Domain.
In this episode sponsored by MYWINDOWBOX Joff talks to Henry Robinson who looks after the National Collection of rambler roses in the UK. In a beautiful garden overlooked by his early 19c home Henry presides over 150 varieties of rambling roses. We explore the gardens looking at individual rose varieties while discussing pruning, care, and maintenance regimes. Henry opens the garden every year usually in the last month of June. Visit www.moorwoodroses.co.uk
In this episode I chat about my last month which included a National Bonsai Show focused purely on Australian Natives as bonsai, lots and lots and lots of work on pines, plenty of training courses, workshops and demonstrations. As well as being fortunate enough to have a tree selected to be loaned and on display at our National Collection in Canberra. I also talk with a long term customer and friend, Bayley about his take on bonsai and then look forward to the next month ahead. Enjoy!bonsaimatsu.com
The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, (AMS), has officially kicked off its 2019 National Collection campaign. The collection, to be taken up in Catholic parishes throughout the United States at weekend Masses Nov. 9-10, 2019, will support pastoral care and ministry to Catholic families stationed worldwide in the U.S. Military, and Catholic patients in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers throughout the country and in Guam and Puerto Rico. In this edition of Catholic Military Life, the only official podcast of the AMS, Ms. Mary Lavin, Executive Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving, shares how private support is critical to the Archdiocese's mission, "Serving Those Who Serve," and how you can help.
Alliums have to be one of our most well-loved, contemporary perennials. They’re relatively pest and disease free, pollinators love them, they look good in flower and also in skeletonised form during the winter. However, if you thought growing alliums was as straightforward as bunging some bulbs in the ground and enjoying them year after year, you may be surprised… After losing some alliums in my own garden, I was determined to find out a bit more about what these plants need to succeed in the garden. Jackie Currie has held the National Collection of Alliums for the past 4 years and I surmised that if anyone could help me on my quest to make my alliums happy, she could. Since she started studying alliums in earnest, Jackie has learned many things that might surprise even the most seasoned grower and it appears she may be re-writing the rule book on alliums as we know it. Listen to the episode to find out which alliums truly act as perennials, coming back year after year. Also find out which alliums to treat as annuals, what to feed them, where to grow them and the answers to many other questions about alliums you didn’t even realise you should be asking! Points of interest; Ideal soil conditions for alliums Alliums that are easy to grow Alliums that are tricky Potential diseases What to plant them with Feeding How to propagate them Guest follow up; Jackie Currie has run Euphorbia Design in partnership with Lorraine Cooke for the past 15 years. www.euphorbia-design.co.uk info@euphorbia-design.co.uk Jackie and her alliums can often be found exhibiting at RHS Flower Shows Hampton Court & Chelsea, where she is a multiple medal-winner. Further useful research; There is none! Jackie doesn’t recommend any books or websites as useful resources for information on Alliums and I must say that having a poke around on the internet reveals common advice mainly conflicts with Jackie’s findings. Perhaps if you have any experience of alliums that may be useful you can email them to me podcast@rootsandall.co.uk and I will can pass them on to Jackie and I will find a way to share them online with listeners. Allium names, in order of mention; Allium atropurpureum ‘Silver Spring’ ampeloprasum ‘Purple Sensation’ wallichii altissimum christophii sphaerocephalon senescens lusitanicum giganteum ‘Ambassador’ schubertii caeruleum caesium ‘Eros’ ‘Mount Everest’ ‘Mont Blanc’ ‘Globemaster’ nigrum ‘Gladiotor’ paradoxum var. normale siculum litvinovii angulosum fistulosum ‘Early Emperor’ Get in touch; Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk Website www.rootsandall.co.uk Twitter @rootsandall Instagram rootsandallpod Patreon Link; Help us keep the podcast free & independent! Donate as much or as little as you like at https://www.patreon.com/rootsandall
Dr Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, London: How to form a national collection. The Prado Museum and the National Gallery, London The lecture is named in honour of Peter Murray, who founded Birkbeck’s Department of History of Art in 1967 and is part of Opening Up Art History: 50 Years at Birkbeck, a series of events celebrating the Department’s 50th anniversary.
How to Be Better Prepared to Give Credit to Customers Joining me today on the show is Jeanine Purdie, she is the CEO of Business Credit Solutions – a debt collection agency, which she founded in early 2014 after working at a National Collection agency, so the area of debt collection is something she is [...] The post [Ep #62] How to Be Better Prepared to Give Credit to Customers appeared first on The Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast Network.
What gives beer its taste? Why do some ales taste of berries, bananas or chocolate? A big part of the answer is the type of yeast used to ferment it. There are hundreds of different strains that brewers can use to make beer, and many of them can be found at the National Collection of Yeast Cultures in Norwich. We went for a pint with scientists from the NCYC to find out how different yeasts affect the taste of ales, and learn about their research to find strains that can produce new and better beers. Music: Live Action Fez – Carol of the Bells
Episode 17: Our plant for this episode is not a plant. It's yeast. Tiny in size, huge in utility, yeast is all around us. Found in the Ecuadorian Rainforests, the Arctic, and on our skin, this single-celled member of the Fungi Kingdom is part of Nature's Recycling Team and has been on the planet for millions of years. Used for brewing and baking, humans have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with yeast. In this episode, Dr. Ian Roberts of the National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) talks about yeast: its history, what it needs to survive, its role in the ecosystem, and the process of fermentation. Dr. Roberts is the curator of more than 4,000 strains of yeast collected over 65 years at the NCYC. To learn more about the NCYC and its heritage collection of UK brewing yeast visit their website.
Private Ernest Cable was a WW1 soldier who died on 13 March 1915 and his body now lies in a communal cemetery in Wimereux, France. Records suggest that Cable was the first British soldier in WW1 to die from dysentery - an intestinal diarrhoeal infection, caused by Shigella flexneri bacteria. Today, a sample of the very Shigella which infected and killed Cable can be found at the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC), where it is helping researchers to understand the evolution of drug resistance. The NCTC is part of Public Health England's Culture Collections, which includes thousands of strains of bacteria, viruses and fungi. We spoke to Julie Russell, Head of Culture Collections, about some of the more unusual historical strains housed there, and the role that they continue to play in the fight against disease. Image: Wimereux Communal Cemetery Image credit: Wernervc on Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.0
Koalas will cuddle specific tree types during summer heatwaves to cool down. Hugging the right tree can reduce a koala's body temperature by almost 70 per cent. Researchers have sequenced the genome of Eucalyptus grandis, a common type of gum tree. And this genetic blueprint, according to the researchers, could help design more powerful and efficient jet fuels. The project took five years and involved 80 scientists from 18 countries. A 36 year-old space probe, mothballed by NASA, has just been resurrected by a crowdfunded group of volunteers calling themselves the ISEE-3 Reboot Project. The team raised $159,502 on Kickstarter to cover the costs of writing the software to communicate with the probe, searching through the NASA archives for the information needed to control the spacecraft, and buying time on the dish antennas. 60 years after the suicide of one of the greatest mathematicians, Alan Turing, the test he gave his name to has allegedly been passed. The Turing Test is where a computer program tries to fool a human into thinking they're conversing with real human being. A Russian chatbot sort of did that, by pretending it was a 13 year old Ukrainian boy who likes Eminem. But it's not the breakthrough that some people have claimed. A study on Bangladeshi children has found that the gut microbiome of malnourished children is less developed than that of healthy children. This suggests that food alone might not be enough to combat malnutrition, as the gut bacteria may need a boost as well. The National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) is giant collection of yeast cultures, holding over 4000 strains collected over 65 years. While a lot of its cultures are stored for medical research purposes, it also acts as a kind of insurance agency for many pubs around the UK in case their unique strain of brewer's yeast is lost.