"Flower Power: Botanical Art" will be on view through July 2 at the Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich.
"Pollinating Partners" at the Champion Greenhouse in Stamford and "Flower Power: Botanical Art" at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich each explores the ways in which flowers attract their animal mates -- the apple blossom and the bumblebee, the butterfly bush and the butterfly, the hummingbird and the trumpet vine -- and how vital these relationships are to the propagation of the species.
More new lands were opening up to European colonial powers, the botanical riches being returned to European botanists for description.
At Harbel, Firestone operates a hospital, a hydroelectric power plant, a botanical research division, and a transatlantic radio service; it also maintains roads, housing, schools, and a literacy program.
Through duty-free promotions geared toward Chinese tourists, advertisements featuring Korean singers and actresses, product placements in Korean dramas and tag lines such as "High-performance skincare powered by Asian Botanicals," Suh and his lieutenants have capitalized brilliantly on these developments.
Then, through the years, she learned first‐hand the healing powers of the non contraceptive botanical medi cines that were given her by witch doctors when she was injured.
From Alan Tangren, a pastry chef with a near-encyclopedic botanical knowledge, I learned the power of scent, and that flavour is hugely dependent on aroma.
In Vanuatu, they often combine "botanical expertise with an ability to diagnose illnesses using supernatural powers" [ 29].
"Flower Power," the Bruce Museum's exhibition, consists of contemporary botanical paintings and drawings executed in a variety of media.
As Santa Fe Springs became a booming oil town, oilmen replaced the wealthy tourists who had visited the botanical gardens and sought the curative powers of the city's mineral springs.
In reviewing the sweep of botanical history it is evident that, through the power of the scientific method, most of the basic questions concerning the structure and function of plants have, in principle, been resolved.
