Bamboo Serenity
by Don Schwartz
Title
Bamboo Serenity
Artist
Don Schwartz
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Two stalks of bamboo stand, surrounded by the early morning light at the Hoyt Arboretum Portland, Oregon. According to Chinese tradition, two stalks of bamboo represent love.
From Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia:
The Hoyt Arboretum is located atop a ridge in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, United States. The arboretum is located two miles (3 km) west of downtown Portland within Washington Park, and close to the Oregon Zoo, and the International Rose Test Garden. The Arboretum is open to the public and accessible at several points from Washington Park or from the Wildwood Trail from Forest Park.
The arboretum hosts approximately 6000 individual trees and shrubs of more than 2300 species from all over the world, 63 of which are vulnerable or endangered. Most have labels identifying common and scientific names and region of origin.
The arboretum contains a nationally recognized magnolia collection.
The arboretum has one of the most extensive conifer collections in the United States. The conifer collection includes a dawn redwood, one of only a few known deciduous conifers (needle and cone bearing trees that lose their leaves in the winter). The species was once thought extinct and known only in fossils, but was rediscovered in a remote valley in Hubei province, China in 1944. The species was reintroduced to the western hemisphere in 1948, with the Hoyt Arboretum as one of the first recipients. In the fall of 1952, the Hoyt Arboretum's dawn redwood became the first in the Western hemisphere to produce cones in about 6 million years.[
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November 14th, 2020
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