Botany Photo of the Day

While in the Asian Garden yesterday documenting some of this year's plant inventory at the garden, I decided to try photographing this lovely little fern yet again. I've attempted it previously, but was never happy with the results.

I'm happy with this, although the photograph at this size still doesn't capture the flow and subtle beauty of this gem. So, for the first time for the Botany Photo of the Day series, I'm supplying the full-size version of a photograph, Adiantum venustum, for you to see. Be warned! The file is 3 megabytes in size - if you are on dial-up, go fetch a cup of coffee or tea. Unfortunately, the file opens to the weakest spot in the photograph (the upper left) - make sure you scroll down and to the right to be appreciating the same things I am with the plant.

Apologies for being light on the science side of things today - as I mentioned in a previous post, my time is elsewhere this week with the inventory. I do have the energy for a small story, though. I wanted to thank everyone who attended the Perennial Plant Sale on the weekend - the event was a huge success. I know that at least a few readers of Botany Photo of the Day attended, because I had an opportunity to speak with the Friend of the Garden who was volunteering in the “Tender Plants” section yesterday evening. She admitted to me that she hadn't visited the web site recently, and could not figure out why so many people were asking for Salvia discolor, which was featured as the Photo of the Day last Saturday. Once she figured out it was because of the web site, she was pretty impressed. So, thank you to those who live locally and who were inspired enough to seek out Salvia discolor based off that photo entry; if you did attend the sale hoping for a Salvia discolor but were disappointed, I hope the thousands of other plants available partly made up for it.