The Miracle of Sex
It's no easy task to create a new rose. It is the work that is done and taken for the money. This is why he then gets “William Shakespeare”, “Julio Iglesias”, “Pink Panther”, “The McCartney Rose”, “Leonardo da Vinci”, “Michelangelo”, “Rodin”, “Lilli Marlene”, “President Macià”, “Tchaikoví”. What they did, with great effort, is the guardian. Good or bad, it's about that. Sona and currency. You can get pretty, but to the pretty pink, the names of those ugly people, a coin ...
In the case of pre-registration works, on the other hand, in the specialty. To create new roses there is no choice but to mix the roses we already have. This mix is the one produced by the hybrid. To get the new hybrid, you need seeds that are cured with crossbreeds of females and males. According to Mendel, who was the father of genetics, we can sow the plants that are going to be born into three three-thirds groups: one similar to the mother, the other paternal and the other confusing. The latter are interesting, both for those who want to get rich and for nature itself. The characteristics of the figures that until then have not been able to have this species can be developed by those who are neither paternal nor maternal. In roses, for example, new smells, unknown shapes, eye-catching adornments, immense fertility...
A new variant provides a great favor to the species, opens the way to the future and facilitates survival. The more varied whatever comes, the more the transvestites and comedies of the future in the show adapt to any non-old novelty or to the ecological change. Nature knows it, today's future blends, the future prometedor.La Quesera will place the pollen from one side of
a flower to the female of another flower that has not opened the male's pollen, and it will completely close the step for another male's pollen to arrive. The artist expects the female to sow the seeds of the fruit and the miraculous surprise occurs. Then it will be called... Like the one who put a beautiful rose he published in 1958 in the Dutch Aalsmeer G.Verbeekek: “Miracle.”
In our latitude the sweat of most plants moves in the spring, and in this time we will enjoy the great blooms. Flowers are the symbol of beauty: to see, to smell... And to try? Did you eat a flower? I'm sure it does.
Who has not eaten artichokes (Cynara cardunculus var... [+]
Lilipak edo nartzisoak loretan dira. Nabarmen adierazten dute mendean hartutako bere lurren berri. Neguan loratzen dira, kolore zuri-hori ikusgarritan, eta usaina bafadaka hedatzen dute. Multzoka bizi dira; lurpean erraboila emankorra dute, eta bat zen tokian, urtetik urtera... [+]
Udari begira jarri gaituen eguraldi honek landareak ederki mugitu ditu. Gu ere bai. Zaldibarren, Eitzaga auzoko zabortegiko madarikazioaren ardurak eskatzera, eta langileei, haien senideei eta auzotarrei babesa emateko manifestazioan Eibarko Amañatik abiatu ginen. Hasi... [+]
I remember as a kid how we called it the "little boy." The flower reminded us of the chicken's head. José María Lakoizketa was named “kurkubia” in Bertizarana in 1888, as its fruit resembles a kurkubi or bottle. He says in Cinco Villas they call him “cascabel.” In 1976... [+]
The danger of plant extinction may have many reasons. In the past, they were divided into three groups: diseases, pests and herbs or “bad” plants. Today, there is a tendency to call plague to all plant disasters. Previously, an accident caused by the proliferation of... [+]
In the pile of manure and waste there is usually a guest in summer, although not always: estrammonium or estrammonium, Datura stramonum. Some have also received the names of “carbonero” or “higuzoro” for this plant. It is a striking, upright plant, with a glowing... [+]
The year of Dalia, the pinnata Dahlia, was chosen this year by the organizers of the festival. Well said, it's the year of Dahlia. Dictionaries and encyclopedias in Euskera call this plant “dalia”; I think we should call it “dahlia”.
The Spanish invaders who met Dahlia... [+]
I have been a little quieter on the day when the night has become longer than the clear day and I am glad that we are six months like this. I cannot deny that summer has been beautiful, but it smells better to fall. Plants are made “tizas” with the arrival of autumn. The... [+]
Plants are known to smell, more and more. We had known for a long time that plant martingale was to protect itself from herbivorous animals: the plant that has been bitten releases the odor to warn neighboring plants, that they will knead the leaves and will not be of taste to... [+]
Lately, I asked Joxe Anton Arze, one of the most beautiful Basque landscape architects, about the names of the plants that had white flowers. It's already in its Mortecine light.
Grapefruit (Narcissus poeticus), Star perico (Stelaria holostea), White hawthorn (Crataegus... [+]
His relative is the Lo-Belar (Papaver somniferum), but compared to him is the Michoneta (Papaver Rhoeas). The poppy is well known; it is also known as “urdemutur” and “urdamutur”. When spring arrives, the earth will blur every year. It also revives the blush of my shame,... [+]