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Browsing Archive: May, 2009

Hummingbirds

Posted by Tayler Cox on Friday, May 29, 2009,
May 23rd, 2009

Shams got a beautiful shot of one of the hummingbirds that comes to drink out of the fountain every morning.



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Three Bee Paradise

Posted by Tayler Cox on Friday, May 29, 2009,
May 9th, 2009

Big workday in the garden, put in a lot of the veggie starts Sarah brought over as well as 17 moringa trees and A LOT of tomato plants. I also had fun photographing the bees in the bottlebrush hedging the back of the garden.  I spotted three types of species, although I couldn't really tell you what exactly they are (European, a fuzzy one, and a black California native bee I think).  I'm glad the garden is attracting so many pollinators, this bodes well for future Hamm plants.
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Trip to the Stanford Cactus Garden

Posted by Tayler Cox on Friday, May 1, 2009,
April 30th, 2009  - I joined the Earth Systems spring tour of the cactus garden.  Christy Smith, the Cactus Garden Volunteer Coordinator and manager of the restoration project at the garden, gave us a great historical overview and info about all the different species in the garden.  The garden, originally called the "Arizona Garden" has been the official make-out spot for Stanford students over the past century (and you thought all the action happened at Full Moon on the Quad).
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