Mezalagun in powdery flowers
- It's spring the time of flowers. But it's not the only one; flowering doesn't end all year, it's the flowers that don't end. We live in a continuous flower. This year there are still beautiful grasses that have not known hangi, nor gained, nor scythes. The hum of the flights from flower to flower appears to be a symphony.
The fly bee that we have under the roof of the house is donated for everything, at this time I feel the largest dance of bees every year. From the flower, indeed! And flowers need pollinating. Pollination is easily understood: the grain of the flower that produces the male poplar, or the grain of pollen, must reach the female of another flower. Fertilization shall be carried out on the female by pollen.
How does the floral powder follow that path from the flower to the flower? Who is Zubilan responsible for? The wind takes a good job, it's a magnificent mecalagun of many species. Many other species need animals to be assisted. Some have to do with certain animals. These can present great distress if the animal is in danger. There are plants that use many animals for pollination, that are more tender in the future, that in the absence of one they will do another and that are their helper.
Bereter, pasante, merciful, helper... Plants need somebody. To attract and reward their work, the flower will generate smells, smells, colors, shapes, etc. : “pigs in exchange”.
Three out of four flowering plants need some pollinator. About a thousand of them are birds, bats or small mammals. Two hundred thousand other insects are flies, butterflies, beetles, ants, wasps, bumblebees, sits, bees ...
It is often said that one in three of our food is in your hands. Cuidemos: do not use pesticides and let grasslands and natural plants flourish. And when a cherry or a guindilla sits, it reminds the repairing insects.
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.
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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... [+]
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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”.
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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.
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This first day of April, an Italian friend has just sent me a photo of the bouquet of flowers he has put to beautify the food table. What envy mine! Red black camellia (Camellia sp.) and Forsithia viridisima of yellow gold, a pink peony (Paeonia arborea) and a white and wild... [+]