The Moon Rabbit
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Culture Spotlight: Xi Shi 西施 – Flower Immortal of July
The piece highlights July’s flower, the lotus, linked to the legendary Xi Shi, a beauty who influenced history through her charm and espionage, embodying the grace and strength of femininity.
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Hort Tidbit – June/July 2025: Delving into the 12 Months of Flowers
Hello everyone and welcome to summer! In this column, I will be introducing a new concept called the “12 Flower Goddesses”(十二花神 Shí’èr Huā shén). Each goddess is representative of her month’s flower. You can also think of this as each flower’s “birthday month” as it’s been described to me before. The flower of June, Gardenia jasminoides ‘Kleim’s Hardy’…
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IPM: Beneficial Insects at Lan Su
At Lan Su Chinese Garden, we practice Integrated Pest Management, or IPM. IPM is an ecosystem-based strategy that focuses on the long-term prevention of pests and the damage that they cause by monitoring for pests, cultural control, manual control, biological control, habitat manipulation, and use of resistant plant varieties. Pest control methods are selected to…