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Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest a natural landscape, and to express the ...
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
Llano Uplift - geologic map. The Llano Uplift can be considered an uplift by either its pattern on a geological or structural map of the top of the Precambrian rocks. It qualifies as an uplift because it consists of an extensive Precambrian basement high that is exposed by virtue of its surface lying significantly above in elevation the surface of surrounding Precambrian basement.
One example of primary succession takes place after a volcano has erupted. The lava flows into the ocean and hardens into new land. The resulting barren land is first colonized by pioneer organisms, like algae, which pave the way for later, less hardy plants, such as hardwood trees, by facilitating pedogenesis, especially through the biotic acceleration of weathering and the addition of ...
Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral (/ ˌʃæpəˈræl, ˌtʃæp -/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-) [1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet ...
Hügelkultur is a German word meaning mound culture or hill culture. [3] Though the technique is alleged to have been practiced in German and Eastern European societies for hundreds of years, [1][4] the term was first published in a 1962 German gardening booklet by Herrman Andrä. [5] Inspired by the diversity of plants growing in a pile of ...
Saxifraga. Saxifraga is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 473 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages[1][2] or rockfoils. [3] The Latin word saxifraga means literally "stone-breaker", from Latin saxum ("rock" or "stone") + frangere ("to break").
Even Salvador Dalí couldn’t have rendered a landscape this surreal — lurid orange dunes towering more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) above a ghostly forest of dead camelthorn trees and bizarre ...