Via site feedCarol Mead offers two shades of a ginkgo wallpaper border.
Growth Rate of Ginkgo Trees
There’s a fascinating thread over at Garden Web about the growth rate of ginkgo trees.
Via TreeDazzled.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
Image courtesy of bitmapr.
Eating Ginkgo
I’ve read that ginkgo nuts are not suitable for eating, but today I learned that I was wrong. You can see them peeking out from under the yam paste.
Now I have to try ginkgo nuts.
Ginkgo Fridays: Lighting
Green Culture sells a beeswax lantern with ginkgo leaves:
All honeypots are crafted from one hundred percent natural beeswax with real flowers, leaves, and ferns. The botanical designs use only locally picked flowers and leaves which are pressed in recycled phone books. Each piece is signed by the producing artist.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
Shadows of a ginkgo tree cast against the curved wall of the Department of Music, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand. Image courtesy of rob511.
Ginkgo Fridays: Jewelry
Ginkgo Jewelry sells ginkgo leaf pins and earrings, designed and handmade by Joycelyn Merchant.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
1800-year-old gingko at Dujiangyan Irrigation Project near Chengdu, China. Image courtesy of Al McLaine.
Selma’s ginkgo trees
Were I in Selma, Alabama, I’d check out the ginkgo trees:
Brought here by a Chinese missionary in 1879, Selma’s first Gingko tree was planted in the courtyard of a cotton warehouse at Lawrence Street and Water Avenue. The tree grew to a hundred feet in height and as it grew, it became famous, making the popular “Strange As It May Seem” nationally syndicated column several decades ago.
During its years in the courtyard of Bernard Yaretzky’s cotton office, the tree produced a number of small seedlings, which were successfully transplanted all over Selma. Every Gingko in Selma has its origin in that tree.
Ginkgo Fridays: Furniture
Rolling Fog Design has a selection of made-to-order furnishings with a ginkgo theme.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
Image courtesy of Renee May.
Ginkgo Fridays: Textiles
Michael FitzSimmons Decorative Arts offers two versions of their Prairie School Ginkgo Rug.