Tag: tree
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Is This The Most Beautiful Tree in the World?
Ashikaga Flower Park is a flower theme park located in Tochigi Prefecture’s Ashikaga City, around 80 kilometers from Tokyo. Flowers are available for viewing year-round in the park’s 92,000 square-meter area. One of the park’s particularly big draws is its wisteria flowers. The park holds over 350 wisteria trees, and it is Japan’s largest collection…
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NASA Compiles a List of the Best Air-Cleaning Plants for Your Home
Houseplants are awesome indoor air cleaners, but some of them are more effective than others at filtering out pollutants and toxic chemicals in the air. This infographic highlights the best air-filtering plants, according to a NASA study. NASA researchers set out to find the best ways to clean the air in space stations. Their Clean…
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Boy Plants A Tree Every Day On A Bare Island For 40 Years, And Now It’s A Lush Forrest
Here’s an uplifting story to take you into the weekend… In 1979, Jadav Payeng, then 16, encountered a large number of snakes that had died due to excessive heat after floods washed them onto the tree-less sandbar. Then and there, Jadav made it his life’s mission to save Majuli from erosion by planting trees. Working…
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A 1400 Year Old Chinese Gingko Tree Creates a Spectacular Sea of Leaves
As the Northern Hemisphere transitions into Winter and the Southern Hemisphere transitions into Summer, we’re left with the beautiful season known as Fall (in some countries) or Autumn (in others). No matter what you call it, this season produces some of the most spectacular flora going around. Once such example is this amazing ginkgo tree located within the walls…
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Photos of Cats and Dogs Who Destroyed Christmas
For around 340 days of the year, your cat or dog may be the most innocent, fun loving creature known to man. However along comes the festive season with all the trimmings and WATCH OUT! Those beautiful fur-babies of yours turn into Christmas-killers, tinsel-terrors and bauble-bashers. These pictures capture some of that carnage… And don’t…
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Hipsters Unite: Decorate Your Beard This Christmas!
This Christmas, why not decorate your beard? Each year, ad agencies send spectacularly crazy cards to their clients to show off their creativity. This year, Grey London decided to work with designers Mike Kennedy and Pauline Ashford to come up with a festive gift idea to feature in their cards. That’s how Beard Baubles was…
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An Amazing Suspended Tent That Lets You Sleep In The Trees!
This isn’t some surreal work of art or alien structure – it’s a tent! The Tentsile, a portable suspended tent (Tent? Treehouse? Hammock?) created by UK-based inventor Alex Shirley-Smith, solves the problem of setting up camp on rocky, muddy, or otherwise unpleasant surfaces by hanging from the trees. In addition to avoiding unpleasant conditions, the…