Plants of the world on postage stamps

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Alisdair

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« Reply #375 on: December 21, 2017, 09:02:24 AM »
Absolutely fascinating, Hilary! Thank you.
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« Reply #376 on: December 22, 2017, 07:14:19 AM »
Another  Christmas stamp from Finland.
This stamp, of 1998, depicts a tall Christmas tree with three elves running round it, a fox peeping from the back and two birds joining in the fun.
The photo of the metal fox is from the gates of the Globe Theatre, London.
The knitted Christmas trees were my knitted Christmas effort of 2016

I appreciate that Fir trees / Christmas trees and Holly  are not found in Mediterranean gardens and do not feature at all in THE MEDITERRANEAN, GARDEN, the journal of the Mediterranean Garden Society, however, if you are ever in mainland  Greece and the heat on the beach gets too much for you head for the mountains and cool off under a Fir tree.

This is the last Christmas stamp I have so I will take a break for a few days.
Wishing you all a Happy Christmas   and All The Best for 2018.
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Re: Plants of the world on postage stamps
« Reply #377 on: December 22, 2017, 08:49:00 AM »
Happy Christmas to you, Hilary, and many thanks for doing so much to bring all these stamps to life for us.
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« Reply #378 on: January 01, 2018, 09:57:05 AM »
Thanks, very interesting thread, unfortunatly plants are seldom on French stamps.
Pierre de SFA

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« Reply #379 on: January 01, 2018, 10:48:18 AM »
The same can be said of Spain
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« Reply #380 on: January 02, 2018, 08:37:20 AM »
Rosa, red
This stamp issued by the USSR in 1977 in a series named
 FEDOSKINO FOLK PAINTINGS
The lacquer painting ‘The Scarlet Flower’, 1969, by V.D.Lipitsky depicts a Russian Folk Tale by Sergey Aksakov based on the story of The Beauty and The Beast.

The flower in the story is not named so I looked through my collection to find the brightest red flower I could which also grows in Russia,it had to be a rose..

There is an interesting article
SOME MEDITERRANEAN GARDENS ON THE BLACK SEA by David J. Bracey in issue number 76, April 2014,
Roses are mentioned
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« Reply #381 on: January 02, 2018, 11:06:18 AM »
Hilary, your Scarlet Flower took me to a charming 1952 Russian animated film of this same folk tale (which you may be able to find by clicking here). In the film the flower is just as unclassifiable as in the stamp - as of course such a magical thing should be!
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« Reply #382 on: January 02, 2018, 11:56:22 AM »
Great I have told all my friends about the film THE RED FLOWER.
I will watch it this afternoon
Many  thanks
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Hilary

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« Reply #383 on: January 03, 2018, 02:47:57 PM »
Erythrina crista-galli L, Cockspur Coral Tree

A stamp issued by Brasil in 1990

The Royal Horticultural Society has information about this tree here
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/32582/i-Erythrina-crista-galli-i/Details

Erythrina crista-galli is mentioned quite often in
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN
My intention now is to try to point you to articles that I might not have already recommended .
My choice today is
PROBLEMS OF ACCLIMATIZATION:
CON FIRMED OBSERVATIONS AND
AMAZEMENT AFTER  A FROST
By Piero Caneti in TMG issue number 11 Winter 1997/8

Pierre de SFA,a new contributer to this Forum, has Erythrina crista- galli growing in his garden, you can see photos of it here

http://www.mgsforum.org/smf/index.php?topic=2565.msg17891#msg17891
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« Reply #384 on: January 04, 2018, 07:24:44 AM »
Talpa europaea. Mole

This stamp was in the Royal Mail series WOODLAND ANIMALS issued in 2004.

You can read the excerpt from the presentation pack to learn about Moles.

I don’t think I have ever seen a mole, so no photo

There is a drawing of a mole by Megan Toms in
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 58, October 2009.
The article, by Andrew Polmear, deals with
GEOTEXTILE: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN THE LANGUEDOC
Photographs to illustrate this article can be seen here
http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/58-geotextile.html
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« Reply #385 on: January 04, 2018, 09:32:02 AM »
No moles in Cyprus although some years ago I did see mole traps and mole scarers on sale in a newly-opened hardware store in Limassol. Rather poor market research on their part I think!  :-[
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"Aphrodite emerged from the sea and came ashore and at her feet all manner of plants sprang forth" John Deacon (13thC AD)

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« Reply #386 on: January 04, 2018, 03:32:45 PM »
There are no moles in Norway and I suppose the ground where we are in northern Greece is not suitable for them either. I was lucky and saw it once in Montenegro several years ago, it was very busy digging holes in the muddy area next to the road where the snow had just melted, near Mt. Komovi (1800 m altitude). It was fascinating to see how stubborn it was and how hard it was burrowing with the large paws.


_DSC4325.jpg Mole - Talpa europaea - in action
by Jorun Tharaldsen, on Flickr


_DSC4345.jpg Mole - Talpa europaea
by Jorun Tharaldsen, on Flickr
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« Reply #387 on: January 04, 2018, 04:57:00 PM »
I'm glad you had your camera at the ready.
A great opportunity. It looks bigger than I thought they were
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« Reply #388 on: January 04, 2018, 05:22:21 PM »
It wasn't very big, somewhat larger than a mouse, with thick, short-haired fur, long, pink nose and huge paws. It didn't seem be disturbed by us photographing. They are not blind, though, but their eyes are more adapted to the minimal light in the furrows.
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« Reply #389 on: January 05, 2018, 08:23:19 AM »
In 2003 the Royal Mail brought out a series of 10 first class postage stamps all featuring FRUIT & VEG.
The presentation pack was in cartoon style with a story of how the fruit and veg escaped from the van taking them to the supermarket.   

Here is the blurb from the packet.
We are given information about what happened to four of the heroes, one being ALBERT AUBERGINE 

Aubergine, Solanum melongena
Any Mediterranean garden worth its name has a row of aubergines growing with the tomatoes and courgettes.

Jennifer Gay in her article GROWING VEGETABLES tells us how to grow many of the vegetables, along with aubergines, which we live on during the summer
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 56, April 2009

The photo is of an aubergine bought especially for this post. 
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