Corn field of a farmer near Siem Reap. When traditional thinking and cultural eating habits are dropped, then new sources of healthy, natural and organic farm products are easily found. Corn grows strong and provides a delicious change to daily rice. In addition this corn field requires no additional watering. Hence corn grows in humid soil during dry season or all year on dry land.
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Pink lotus field - widescreen wallpaper 1920y1200px. Huge fields with nothing but pink lotus. Lotus farming in some areas of Cambodia is side by side with rice farming. Areas with year round flooded fields are used for year round lotus seed production and lotus buds production as alternate farm products.
Farmers need to be innovative and ready to meed consumers natural needs. Here in Cambodia many farmers have lotus fields of many hectares size. In addition to lotus, such fields also offer a variety of aquatic life to grow and commercially harvested in sufficient quantity to add to a farmers revenue.
Main season for lotus farmers is rainy season. Shown in this picture is a lotus field fully in blossom with beautiful large pink lotus flowers getting ready for a rich harvest. Photo outside Siem Reap, near Tonle Sap.
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Exotic flower
I'm never quite sure what to make of the floristry tents at shows, the displays are always fantastic but I'm not sure quite what the average person can take away from them. Tatton is no exception, this year the tent is dominated by an enormous display of giant bamboo canes each supporting a tropical arrangement. This 'Bamboo Forest' is all the work of the Welsh College of Horticulture, (the team that brought us the giant ball of flowers at last year's show).
Once again their display was awarded gold, and I have to admit that it was very striking so I could see why. While nobody is going to create an arrangement on anything like this scale at home, there were some nice plant combinations of orchids and exotic foliage that would look great on anyone's dining table.
While wandering through the display my eyes were also drawn to a large exhibit created by North Warwickshire and Hinckley College that has been inspired by the planets of the solar system. Very apt considering it was only a few days ago, that we were all celebrating the anniversary of the first moon landings. Each of the planets were created in different colours, with red anthuriums for Mars and equisetum strands for the rings of Saturn. At the centre of the display the Sun was created with a stream of exotic orange and yellow arum and some kangaroo paw cascading down like flares radiating out from the centre.
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