By Jason
Our last post included our very first video blog on YouTube. I decided to edit together some behind-the-scenes footage so you can see all the hard work that goes into video blogging.
Also, last weekend we drove up to Berkeley to check out the Botanical Gardens there. The big attraction is the Giant Corpse Flower, or titan arum. It’s so named because when it blooms it smells like rotting meat in order to attract the flies that pollinate it.
We missed the full bloom, but if you leaned over and took a whiff you got the idea.
Here’s Ann in the South African area of the garden
Here are some Easter lily cactus flowers:
Ann is smelling the Lily of the Nile:
This is a red hot poker flower from South Africa:
This myrtle from the Mediterranean area reminded us of Greece:
This is a marsh mallow plant – marshmallows used to be flavored with an extract from its root. Now they’re just made up of corn syrup and whatnot.
