My new garden cart!
A few nice cheap gardening images I found:
My new garden cart!
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Screw you, cheap Chinese manufacturing! With the grace of God — and a 16-ounce hammer — I managed to pound the oval pipe just enough into round to fit it where it belonged.
This is the cart I ordered from Amazon.com (with free shipping!) because my car is too small to fit an assembled cart. I’m so proud of myself — for a girl with no basic mechanical skills, I managed to snap the whole thing together in less than an hour. (Most of that time was spent looking for the right tools!)
Peking Garden, Calgary
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Fried sweet buns with condensed milk. Review at ugonnaeatthat.com/2006/11/15/calgary-good-filling-and-cheap/
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Nice Commercial Gardening Supplies photos
Some cool commercial gardening supplies images:
Newgate Prison Bristol c18th
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‘Banged Up’ in Bristol gaols 18th century
Conditions in Bristol’s prisons were once bad beyond belief, which is why felons preferred to be banged up in Lawford’s Gate Gaol where they were treated humanely. In 1812, James Neild, High Sheriff, Justice of the Peace and Treasurer of the Society for the Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts, published a book called State of Prisons in England, Scotland and Wales. These were the days when you could end up in prison for years for the smallest debt, as recorded by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit, and unless you had someone to provide decent food from outside, life could be bleak.
Some of the conditions Neild discovered on his tours in prisons were almost beyond belief; in others, life was better than that enjoyed by the average family outside. Neild visited three Bristol prisons Newgate, Bridewell and Lawford’s Gate (which was then in Gloucestershire). In Newgate and Lawford’s Gate, he found a complete contrast between the brutality of one and the enlightened conditions of the other.
NEWGATE
Newgate – Bristol City and County Gaol Gaoler William Humphries was paid £200, another £2 a year gown-money plus fees for debtors. The chaplain, the Revd Mr Day, got £35 for a sermon each Sunday and prayers on Wednesdays and Fridays. The number of prisoners on October 4, 1803, was 24 debtors, 26 felons and two deserters. Debtors were given no free food; felons were allowed a three-penny loaf of standard wheat bread.
‘This Gaol, called Newgate, is build on a declivity, and stands in the middle of the City’ reported Neild. ‘It is very antique, and by much too small for the general number of its inhabitants. The lower rooms are dark. For Debtors there are about 15 large and airy rooms; two of which are termed free wards for poor Debtors, who find their own beds.
‘These rooms pay two shillings and six pence per week each; and two Prisoners sleep in a bed. Here is not a proper separation of Men and Women’.
The only exercise area known as the Tennis Court was just 13 yards by six and also used for drying linen. There was a pump with drinking water and a convenient bath which, James Neild noted, was ‘seldom used’.
Male felons had two small day rooms and sleeping rooms with little air or light. But the worst horror of all was the Pit.
‘The Pit to which you descend by eight steps, is 17 feet in diameter, and 8 feet 6 inches high. It has barrack bedsteads, with beds of straw in canvass; and some benevolent Gentlemen of the City occasionally send a few rugs.
‘This dreary place is close and offensive; with only a very small window, whose light is merely sufficient to make darkness visible. In the year 1801, it was chiefly appropriated to convicts under sentence of transportation. Seventeen prisoners are said to have slept here every night!
Bristol Prisons the history
BRISTOL NEWGATE – This Newgate (as that in the metropolis) stands in the midst of the city. It is too small for the general number of prisoners it holds?.
For debtors there are about fifteen rooms; with no free ward. The poorest pay ten pence halfpenny a week. Others two shillings and sixpence. For women felons, a day-room and several night-rooms. For men felons, a day-room, with a court yard adjacent 20 feet by 12.
The dungeon, ( the Pit), down 18 steps, is 17 feet diameter, and 9 feet high, with no bedding or straw.
Newgate stood in the angle between Fairfax street and Castle Mill street. It was famous as the prison of the early Quakers, the Nonconformists and the poet Savage. Mention is made of prisoners in this gaol as early as 1148. It was rebuilt in 1691 by a rate of sixpence in the £ upon the inhabitants.
John Howard visited this prison in 1775. He then described it “white without and foul within; the dungeon or pit, down 18 steps, is 17 feet in diameter and 8 ½ high. It is close and offensive, only a small window.” “Felons,” he says, “were allowed a pennyworth of bread a day before trial, two pennyworth of bread after conviction.” The prisoners were allowed to hang out a basket, into which passers-by dropped their doles; there was also a contribution box for the same purpose.
The following are a few characteristic examples of the local mode of formerly punishing :- In 1615, one Phelps, a fellmonger, was pressed to death. In 1705, Thos. Davis was whipped at a cart tail till he bled to death; Maria Prichard was whipped, stripped to the waist; Mary Ketchmay was whipped till she died. In 1736, Joshua Harding and John Newnham were hanged, but when cut down and placed in lofting both came to life; the latter a few hours after died, but Harding was taken care of in a charity house.
This prison was abandoned in 1820 for the Gaol on the New cut.
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Source: Arrowsmith’s Dictionary of Bristol. Edited by Henry J. Spear and J. W. Arrowsmith. Bristol 1884.
Prior to 1820 Bristol’s two prisons – Bridewell and Newgate – were housed in buildings most unsuited to their use. Of the whitewashed Newgate, John Howard, the outspoken eighteenth century prison reformer wrote `it is white without and foul within’. It was largely due to the pressures exerted by such selfless agitators as Howard that attention focused towards the end of the century on the national scandal of the country’s prisons. But it was a slow process. Howard visited Bristol in 1774, and in spite of his public protests very few improvements were made. The appalling conditions in the Bridewell are emphasised by the fact that a cat had to be kept in the cells at night to stop rats and mice from gnawing the prisoners’ feet.
Prisons at this time were full of vice and disease. There was no segregation of any prisoners, old lags, petty criminals, men, women, children, it didn’t matter, they were all put together. There was no attempt at all at the rehabilitation of the prisoners, no exercise and no cleanliness. Things would get so bad that sometimes diseases would spread out from the prison into the surrounding neighbourhoods. Prisoners had to pay for their own food, those with money to spare could order what food and drink they wanted from outside.
As the population increased new laws were introduced, this led to an increase in the prison population. The prisons became very overcrowded and so transportation, which reached its peak around 1787, was introduced. There were several benefits to transportation, it decreased the overcrowding and it got rid of the criminal element.
The Bridewell prison originally stood where the Central Fire Station now stands. Bridewell was already old, it had undergone a renovation in 1577. In 1664, 55 women were imprisoned here, with beds for only five. That year two of them died. In 1771 it was demolished and rebuilt. In the riots of 1831 it was burnt down, it was rebuilt again, but when the Prisons Act was made law in 1865 the prison was still found not to be up to the required standards and it was finally demolished for good.
There was another prison near Lawford’s Gate, this was the Gloucestershire prison for the western division. This too was destroyed in 1831 and rebuilt. It ceased to be used as a prison in 1860.
LAWFORD’S GATE
Lawfords Gate – This old prison once stood at the end of Old Market where Trinity Police Station now stands. After 100 years of use, it was finally pulled down in 1907.
‘The Turnkey himself told me that in a morning, when he unlocked the door, he was so affected by the putrid steam issuing from the dungeon, that it was enough to strike him down. When Turnkeys are thus affected by only opening the doors, what must the pitiable wretches suffer, confined, through the whole night, in such fetid hotbeds of disease’.
The prison was full of narrow passages, which were kept as clean as possible and scraped and whitewashed once a year. Prisoners depended on charity, such as the £4-9 shillings left by Mr Freeman, for bread and beef on Christmas Eve. Local churchwardens also paid £4-2s towards prisoners’ upkeep.
James Neild was upset by the small numbers attending church services and the behaviour in chapel. ‘So little regard, indeed, was paid to the Chapel, as a place of worship, that I have repeatedly seen the prisoners drinking, smoking and chewing tobacco in the gallery. He added: ‘Several years since, an Act was passed for the building of a new Gaol.
That it has not been carried into execution by this rich commercial City, is much to be regretted; for, really the present Gaol is disgraceful.’
Neild also showed unusual concern for hapless debtors, thrown into the same prison as murderers and thieves legal suffering, as he called it. ‘How often do we overlook that most lamentable groupe, which it so dreadfully oppresses! – I mean the victims of mere misfortune, the feeble and unresistless sacrifices to false and groundless accusation!’
Lawford’s Gate: The County Bridewell – The keeper here was Joseph Hallam, who was paid £50 a year with no fees. The chaplain, the Revd Mr Eden, got £20 as year for sermons and prayers and the prison had a salaried surgeon who received £15 15s. On December 17, 1801, there were nine prisoners, each given a loaf of one good household bread every day.
‘This Prison was finished in 1791. The boundary wall encloses about an acre of ground, and affords the Keeper a convenient garden for the growth of vegetables.
‘On the right of the Gate is a room, where the Magistrates hold their Petty Session. The approach to the Prison is through a small garden, separated from the courtyards by close wooden palisades.
‘Here are four airy courts, of 28 yards by 15, with a pump and a sewer in each; and three day-rooms. 13 feet by 11 feet 6, with fireplaces, stone seats and shelves. The Women’s court has a grass-plat, to bleach and dry the linen’.
Sleeping quarters were equally impressive – nine cells for women and 10 for men on each floor, each measuring 7 feet 4 inches by 6 feet, and 10 feet high, ‘with an arched roof, to prevent danger and confusion in case of fire’. Each was fitted up with a cast-iron bedstead, straw-mat, hair-mattress, a blanket, sheet, and double rug and had light and ventilation. Two cells for vagrants were provided with straw, which was regularly replaced.
‘On this upper-story are also two infirmary rooms, with fire-places and water-closets; and three small rooms used as foul-wards, from which iron-gratings communicate with the Chapel, to accommodate the sick Prisoners for hearing Divine service. ‘Here is likewise a Dispensary for the Surgeon; and all these latter apartments have glazed windows’.
All prisoners were made to attend church services but debtors and felons were kept separate. They were also provided with warm and cold baths, an oven to ‘purify the prisoners’ clothes’, free prison uniforms, and four stoves which heated the whole building in winter.
If there was work available, prisoners got a cut of their earnings to buy extra food. Any money left over was saved for them and paid when they were discharged, but prisoners who refused to work were put into solitary confinement.
Medical care was probably better than most ordinary Bristol folk received, with the surgeon seeing each prisoner once a week and always available when requested. He also had the power to suspend punishment or vary diets and careful record was kept of his observations for the Visiting Justices. There were even books, admittedly of ‘moral and religious instruction’, and ‘proper cisterns, with soap and towels, are supplied to each courtyard, near the pump, for the daily use of the Prisoners. Weights and measures also are kept for their use; and they have clean linen once a week’.
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The most famous of Bristol prisons, Newgate, stood between Narrow Wine Street and Castle Mill Street. It was built in 1148. In 1691, it was rebuilt with householders paying a special rate of sixpence. In 1720, there was an outbreak of disease that decimated the prison population. In 1728 there was another serious outbreak, there was no doctor to tend the sick, but an apothecary who was imprisoned there did service instead. He was eventually paid £10 for his help.
In 1730, there was a rash of letters sent to the wealthy citizens of the city saying that their houses and shops would be burnt down unless they paid a ransom. When payment was not forthcoming several people had their premises destroyed by fire. A visitor to the town, Mr Power, was arrested on the evidence of three children of starting one of these fires and was thrown into the "night room" at Newgate to await trial. The "night room" was a 9ft deep pit, 17ft in diameter, one small window for ventilation and no bedding, not even straw. Mr Power was kept here for 14 weeks and 3 days in the dark and cold, it was the middle of winter, before he was sent to the prison proper. It was nearly a year before he was finally bought up for trial, where the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. Mr Power was still not a free man, he wasn’t finally released until he had paid the jailers fees.
In early 1761, John Wesley wrote a letter to a newspaper commending the transformation that had apparently occurred in Bristol’s Newgate Prison. That prison, he observed, was now "clean and sweet," there was no fighting or brawling, contending parties were heard face to face before the keeper, no drunkenness was suffered, and women prisoners were kept separate from the
men.
Furthermore, industry was encouraged by the free provision of tools and materials and by the payment to prisoners of a "moderate profit" on all articles made. A public service was provided every Sunday, and a sermon was also preached every Thursday. Free medical treatment was given to the sick, and "a large Bible was chained on one side of the chapel, which any of the
prisoners may read."
So remarkable was the transformation from the "filth, the stench, the misery and wickedness" of previous days that Wesley declared the prison to be wearing a "new face." He called for the blessing of God and man upon its remarkable keeper and his amazing achievement. Although Wesley does not mention the fact, the Bristol Newgate prison was run by a Mr. Dagge, an early convert of the evangelical revival.
But how different was this keeper’s prison from those up and down the country! "Meanwhile, will no one follow his example?" asked Wesley in his final sentence. In the opening sentence, he had protested that of all the "seats of woe on this side of hell," few equaled Newgate prison.
For decades, in the early 18th century, there was little public conscience to support reform of the prisons, which were ridden with gross cruelty, graft and corruption inflicted upon people — many of them debtors — whose crimes would seem petty by today’s standards. It wasn’t until Wesley began
to awaken the soul of England and until Howard gave his life to prison reform, that progress occurred.
John Howard, the great prison reformer, came to inspect Newgate on 22nd February 1774, he returned in 1775 and 1787. He found it "white without and foul within". Prisoners had to pay the gaoler, who had no salary of his own, 10 1/2 d. a week for their "lodgings". The food allowance for the prisoners was around 3/4 lb of bread before trial and 1 1/2 lbs after conviction. The prison held 38 criminals and 58 debtors.
Howard did not live long enough to see any great change in the prison system, but his work brought the plight of England’s prisoners to the attention of many people, including the Quakers and the other great prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry. A new Criminal Code was written between 1823 and 1827 and in 1829 the Police force was reorganised by Sir Robert Peel. 1835 saw the appointment of two Government prison inspectors. Their report outraged the public and the colonies would no longer accept convicts which meant a lot more prisons had to be built, but it wasn’t until 1887 that the prisons were bought under the control of the Home Office.
So, what did you need to do in order to be sent to these dreadfull places? Well, in the 19th century the answer was not too much. The following excerpts are local crimes reported in the Bristol Gazette and Public Advertiser dated Thursday, 29th July 1841.
Three boys, for being found sleeping under the hay mow of Mr Bennet and destroying the hay, were sent to Bridewell for three days each.
Charles Coombs, being found sleeping in the stable of Mr Burgess, Duck Lane, and damaging the hay, was sent to Bridewell for seven days.
Tristam Burridge, the notorious drunkard, was brought up for about the thousandth time, and ordered to find two sureties in £10 each for his future good behaviour, and in default, was committed to gaol.
The next was reported in the issue for Thursday, 12th August 1841.
Robert Manning, for stealing apples, was sent to gaol for fourteen days.
Bristol’s Horfield prison was one of the first to be built under the control of the Home Office and the last of the old prisons, the Old gaol, on the New Cut was finally closed. The Gaol was designed by H. H. Seward and opened in 1820 but was burned down during the riots in Bristol in 1831. It was rebuilt and stayed in use until its closure in 1883 when the prison at Horfield was built. The water supply came from a well which was contaminated by river water during summer and the treadmill worked a pump which distributed water around the prison. The treadmill ended up in the New Cut during the 1831 riots. It was at this prison, in 1849, that the last public hanging of a woman took place.
Bristol’s Horfield prison opened in 1882 as a local gaol with two four-storey cell blocks of a galleried design, one of which was originally a prison for women. During the 1960s two more cell blocks were constructed in a T-shaped design.
Information & Facts
Richard Savage died in Newgate 1743
OUTSIDE the Galleries shopping mall in Union Street is a plaque commemorating Francis Greenway, the " Father of Australian Architecture " who, in 1812, was imprisoned (prior to transportation) in Newgate gaol, which once occupied the site.
Less well known is the name underneath, "Richard Savage, poet and playwright" who, it says "Died here in 1743".
His best work, The Wanderer (1729), won him praise from those famous men of letters, Samuel Johnson and Alexander Pope.
He later hit hard times and was imprisoned for debt in Bristol where he died penniless on August 1, 1743.
Last week, whilst eating my sandwiches in Castle Park, I turned round and saw inscribed on the wall of the ruined St Peter’s Church behind me:
"Richard Savage (Poet)Aug 2, 1743" – I guess he was buried there the next day.
Local history is all about coincidences.
I have since learnt that this satirical, somewhat shady poet, who once killed a man in a drunken brawl, is remembered in the name of a gentleman’s club in London – the Savage Club – who still host fortnightly dinners.
But I doubt whether any of the 305 members have ever eaten lunch next to the grave of their founder.
by Richard Webber, Horfield.
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New Gate School
The New Gate was turned from a school into a prison in 1470. Another school sprang up over the Frome Gate, and was later transferred to Bristol Grammar School, founded in 1532.
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image of Newgate Bristol
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Francis Greenway – Father of Australian Architecture
Francis Greenway who spent time in Newgate prison, Bristol awaiting trial for forgery. He was sentenced to be hanged but this was later commuted to transportation to Australia where he became famous as the Father of Australian Architecture.
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Execution of Richard Haynes
Around midday on the 25th April 1800 34 year old Haynes declared that he had no ill feelings against anyone and began his last journey from Newgate Prison Bristol to the Gallows on ST MICHAELS HILL. Mr Bundy went with Haynes in the prison cart both appear to have continued with their hymn singing as the cart trundled through the streets of Bristol. According to an article in the Felix Farley Bristol Journal 26th April 1800 he was also accompanied (in a seperate coach) by the Rev Walcom of Newgate Prison.
Once at the gallows Haynes expressed his desire that there should be the minimum of delay (not quite what the Reverend wanted as he had the prospect of delivering what would amount to a very sanctimonious sermon). Either in respect of Haynes’ wishes or possibly because of the weather, the Rev offered up a final short prayer and Haynes departed this world.
An Account of Haynes’ life, behaviour whilst under sentence and at the place.
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John Howard and Prison Reform (1773 to 1790)
www.bunker8.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/history/howard.htm
Bristol Crime & Punishment Photographic Archives
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Cool Vegetables Garden images
A few nice vegetables garden images I found:
Vegetable garden – 6-11-11 008
Image by Doug Beckers
Flying Pig Garden
Image by Harry Wagner
My vegetable garden, which I am quite pleased with this year.
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A few nice home interior catalog images I found:
Print
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Photographer: Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins (N.L. Stebbins/N.L. Stebbins Photo), Non-Indian, 1847-1922
Subject: Museum of the American Indian – Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989
Date Created: December 1921
Catalog Number: P02976
Format: Albumen print
Dimensions: 10.5 x 13.25 in.
Collection History: N.L. Stebbins was best known for his photographs of ships and maritime subjects but also worked as a commercial photographer documenting home interiors, businesses, and the theatre. He was apparently commissioned to take photographs of the Museum of the American Indian and its early exhibits.
Description: View of exhibits in the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, Third Floor, East Hall, "The West Indies"
Place: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway; New York City, Manhattan; New York County; New York; USA
Site Name: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway
Island Name: Manhattan Island
Culture/People: Island Caribbean
Culture Hierarchy: Circum-Caribbean, Island Caribbean
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=322575
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
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Print
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Photographer: Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins (N.L. Stebbins/N.L. Stebbins Photo), Non-Indian, 1847-1922
Subject: Museum of the American Indian – Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989
Date Created: December 1921
Catalog Number: P02970
Format: Albumen print
Dimensions: 10.5 x 13.25 in.
Collection History: N.L. Stebbins was best known for his photographs of ships and maritime subjects but also worked as a commercial photographer documenting home interiors, businesses, and the theatre. He was apparently commissioned to take photographs of the Museum of the American Indian and its early exhibits.
Description: View of exhibits in the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, Second Floor, West Hall, "Ethnology of California, the Northwest and the Desert Southwest"
Place: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway; New York City, Manhattan; New York County; New York; USA
Site Name: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway
Island Name: Manhattan Island
Culture/People: California,Northwest Coast,Southwest
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=322869
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
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Cool Greenhouse Covers images
Some cool greenhouse covers images:
Cornell greenhouse and Funaria cups
Image by aroid
I blended up moss leaves and poured them onto soil in the cups, covered with the plastic, and they grew into moss plants, and made capsules after a month or so. It was all just wonderful, high times with a lower plant.
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Cool Build A Vegetable Garden images
Some cool build a vegetable garden images:
Botanic Gardens – Easter 2009
Image by infomatique
The Irish National Botanic Gardens are located in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland. The 27 acres (19.5 hectares), are situated between the River Tolka and the Prospect Cemetery.
The gardens were founded in 1795 by the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society) and they have grown to hold 20,000 living plants and many millions of dried plant specimens. There are several architecturally notable greenhouses.
Today the Glasnevin site is the headquarters of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, which includes several sites around the country.
The botanic garden participates in national and international initiatives for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The Director, Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, is also the Chair of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation.
As well as being a tourist destination and an amenity for nearby residents, it also serves as a centre for horticultural research and training, including the breeding of many prized orchids.
The soil at Glasnevin is strongly alkaline (in horticultural terms) and this restricts the cultivation of calcifuge plants such as rhododendrons to specially prepared areas. Nonetheless, the gardens display a range of outdoor "habitats" such as a rockery, herbaceous border, rose garden, bog garden and arboretum. A vegetable garden has also been established.
The National Herbarium is also housed at the National Botanic Gardens. It contains a collection of nearly 750,000 pressed plants, collected over the garden’s two-hundred-year history. The gardens contain noted and historically important collections of orchids. The newly restored Palm House houses many tropical and subtropical plants. The Cactus House is currently (2008) being emptied for refurbishment.
In 2002, a new multistorey complex was built; it includes a cafe and a large lecture theatre.
It has responsibility for the Arboretum at Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, a centre noted for its conifers and calcifuges. This is located some 50 kilometres (30 mi) south of Dublin.
Botanic Gardens – Easter 2009
Image by infomatique
The Irish National Botanic Gardens are located in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland. The 27 acres (19.5 hectares), are situated between the River Tolka and the Prospect Cemetery.
The gardens were founded in 1795 by the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society) and they have grown to hold 20,000 living plants and many millions of dried plant specimens. There are several architecturally notable greenhouses.
Today the Glasnevin site is the headquarters of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, which includes several sites around the country.
The botanic garden participates in national and international initiatives for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The Director, Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, is also the Chair of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation.
As well as being a tourist destination and an amenity for nearby residents, it also serves as a centre for horticultural research and training, including the breeding of many prized orchids.
The soil at Glasnevin is strongly alkaline (in horticultural terms) and this restricts the cultivation of calcifuge plants such as rhododendrons to specially prepared areas. Nonetheless, the gardens display a range of outdoor "habitats" such as a rockery, herbaceous border, rose garden, bog garden and arboretum. A vegetable garden has also been established.
The National Herbarium is also housed at the National Botanic Gardens. It contains a collection of nearly 750,000 pressed plants, collected over the garden’s two-hundred-year history. The gardens contain noted and historically important collections of orchids. The newly restored Palm House houses many tropical and subtropical plants. The Cactus House is currently (2008) being emptied for refurbishment.
In 2002, a new multistorey complex was built; it includes a cafe and a large lecture theatre.
It has responsibility for the Arboretum at Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, a centre noted for its conifers and calcifuges. This is located some 50 kilometres (30 mi) south of Dublin.
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Nice Greenhouse Film photos
A few nice greenhouse film images I found:
Neversink Greenhouse 37
Image by Alex R. (rt48state)
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Pond Clearance
A few nice garden clearance images I found:
Pond Clearance
Image by jrwi
In preparation for the garden refresh/remodelling we stripped and drained the pond. We bought a tank from Reef and River for the purpose of keeping any interesting occupants we found for a short while. We caught: a frog; a diving beetle; a leech and loads of midge larvae. We let the frog go soon after we’d caught him, but kept the others in the kitchen for a few days…
Pond Clearance
Image by jrwi
In preparation for the garden refresh/remodelling we stripped and drained the pond. We bought a tank from Reef and River for the purpose of keeping any interesting occupants we found for a short while. We caught: a frog; a diving beetle; a leech and loads of midge larvae. We let the frog go soon after we’d caught him, but kept the others in the kitchen for a few days…
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Cool How To Make A Greenhouse images
Check out these how to make a greenhouse images:
Sustainable Living in Flagstaff, AZ
Image by 350.org
Team learns how to install photovoltaic panels to power their homes and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A solar oven team show off their portable creation – makes great stews and cookies using the sun.
Photos by John Neville, Sustainable Arizona
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Nice Building Raised Bed photos
Check out these building raised bed images:
Layered Raised Beds
Image by Emily Barney
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