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A floral clock, or flower clock, is a large decorative clock with the clock face formed by carpet bedding, usually found in a park or other public recreation area. Most have the mechanism set in the ground under the flowerbed, which is then planted to visually appear as a clock face with moving hands which may also hold bedding plants.
Linnaeus's flower clock was a garden plan hypothesized by Carl Linnaeus that would take advantage of several plants that open or close their flowers at particular times of the day to accurately indicate the time. [1] [2] According to Linnaeus's autobiographical notes, he discovered and developed the floral clock in 1748. [3]
The clock was created in 1955 as a symbol of the city's watchmakers, and a dedication to nature. Its second hand is the longest in the world, at 2.5 metres (8.2 ft). It was the largest flower clock in the world, with a diameter of 5 metres (16 ft), until the 2005 installation of a 15 metres (49 ft) one in Tehran, Iran. [1]
A list of permanent working clocks with the largest faces in the world. Entries include all clocks with faces at least 4 m (13 ft) in diameter. Clocks can be located on the exterior or interior of buildings, and towers as well as on the ground as is the case with floral clock faces.
The historic attraction in West Princes Street Gardens will mark the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee.
The clock face is composed of more than 10,000 flowers, and the planter that holds them weighs 100 short tons (91 t). [1] The majority of the flowers consist of Joseph's coat and begonias. [5] All of the flowers used in the clock face are grown in greenhouses near the capitol and owned by the state. [1]
One of the most notable clocks by the company is the flower clock in the Parque Hundido in Mexico City, one of the largest in the world, which occupies a space of 78 m2 and has a ten meter wide face. Another clock is that in the Nuestra Señora del Roble basilica in Monterrey, which has four faces of four meters in diameter each. The floral ...
The Linnaeus clock is not a physical clock made of flowers, its a way of telling time based on which flower is open or closed. It is NOT an artifice of flowers decorating a real clock. I'm not even sure the Linnaeus clock has hands or anything resembling a wall clock. 09:55, 1 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.28.13.32 ...