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World's Beautiful Gardens

1. Versaille Versailles, probably the world's most famous garden, was built for Louis XIV and designed by Andre Le Notre.


2. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation Strange landforms abound in Charles Jencks' Garden of Cosmic Speculation.

3. Boboli Gardens The Bobobli Gardens, behind the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy were groundbreaking in the early 18th century for their open design.


4. Rikugien Gardens "Rikugien literally means 'six poems garden' and reproduces in miniature 88 scenes from famous poems."

5. Claude Monet Gardens in Giverny The pool with nympheas, in Claude Monet's garden at Giverny.

6. Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C. The Butchart Gardens at Todd Inlet, which lie around 14 miles from Victoria B.C., covers more than 55 acres of the 130 acre Butchart Estate.

7. Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens Table Mountain looms in the distance of this vista from Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in South Africa.

8. Yu Gardens - Shanghai The 400-year-old Yu Gardens were built in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Jia Jin, and restored in the 1960s.

9. Abraham Lincoln Memorial Gardens Designed by Jens Jensens in the 1930s, the Lincoln Memorial Gardens are planted with native species from the three states Lincoln lived in: Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.

10. Exbury Gardens - New Forest, England Amazing colors reflect on the calm waters of Exbury Lake.

11. Holland's Keukenhof Gardens A showpiece for Holland's unique and beautiful tulips, the manicured landscapes of Keukenhof Gardens abut the rainbow rows of blooming Tulips near Amsterdam.

12. Mirabell Garden in Salzburg The world-famous Mirabell Gardens were built along a north-south axis and oriented towards the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Salzburger Dom cathedral.

13. Ryoan-ji Zen Garden in Kyoto, Japan In Kyoto's Ryoan-ji Zen Garden, the empty space is implicitly structured, and is aligned with the temple's architecture.

Steps for following the Recycling of Product

Recycling includes collecting recyclable materials that would otherwise be considered waste, sorting and processing recyclables into raw materials such as fibers, manufacturing raw materials into new products, and purchasing recycled products.Collecting and processing secondary materials, manufacturing recycled-content products, and then buying recycled products creates a circle or loop that ensures the overall success and value of recycling.

Step 1. Collection and Processing
Collecting recyclables varies from community to community, but there are four primary methods: curbside, drop-off centers, buy-back centers, and deposit/refund programs. Regardless of the method used to collect the recyclables, the next leg of their journey is usually the same. Recyclables are sent to a materials recovery facility to be sorted and prepared into marketable commodities for manufacturing. Recyclables are bought and sold just like any other commodity, and prices for the materials change and fluctuate with the market.

Step 2. Manufacturing
Once cleaned and separated, the recyclables are ready to undergo the second part of the recycling loop. More and more of today's products are being manufactured with total or partial recycled content. Common household items that contain recycled materials include newspapers and paper towels; aluminum, plastic, and glass soft drink containers; steel cans; and plastic laundry detergent bottles. Recycled materials also are used in innovative applications such as recovered glass in roadway asphalt (glassphalt) or recovered plastic in carpeting, park benches, and pedestrian bridges.

Step 3. Purchasing Recycled Products
Purchasing recycled products completes the recycling loop. By "buying recycled," governments, as well as businesses and individual consumers, each play an important role in making the recycling process a success. As consumers demand more environmentally sound products, manufacturers will continue to meet that demand by producing high-quality recycled products. Learn more about recycling terminology and to find tips on identifying recycled products.

Enzymes

Enzyme activity can lead to the deterioration of food quality. Enzymes present in animals, vegetables and fruit promote chemical reactions, such as ripening. Freezing only slows the enzyme activity that takes place in foods. It does not halt these reactions which continue after harvesting. Enzyme activity does not harm frozen meats or fish and is neutralized by the acids in frozen fruits. But most vegetables that freeze well are low acid and require a brief, partial cooking to prevent deterioration. This is called "blanching." For successful freezing, blanch or partially cook vegetables in boiling water or in a microwave oven. Then rapidly chill the vegetables prior to freezing and storage. Consult a cookbook for timing.

Fresh fragrance of Lavenders

The Lavenders are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region south to tropical Africa and to the southeast regions of India. The genre includes annuals, herbaceous plants, sub shrubs, and small bushes. The native range extends across the Canary Islands, North and East Africa, south Europe and the Mediterranean, Arabia, and India. Because the cultivated forms are planted in gardens world-wide, they are infrequently found growing wild, as garden escapees, well beyond their natural range. Because violet cross-pollinates easily, however, there are numerous discrepancy within the species.

Lavenders are generally grown in gardens. Flower spikes are used for dried flower preparations. The fragrant, pale purple flowers and flower buds are used in potpourris. Dried and sealed in pouches, they are positioned among stored items of clothing to give a fresh fragrance and as a restriction to moths. The plant is also grown commercially for extraction of lavender oil from the flowers. This oil is used as a sterile and for aromatherapy.

Lava dome

In volcanology, a lava dome or plug dome is a roughly circular mound-shaped projection resulting from the slow eruption of felsic lava (typically rhyolite or dacite) from a volcano, or from multiple lava episodes of dissimilar magma types. The characteristic dome shape is credited to high levels of silica in the magma, causing the magma to be quite viscous and broad. The viscosity of the lava prevents it from graceful far from the vent that it extrudes from, causing it to solidify rapidly and build on preceding volcanic extrusions, creating a dome-like shape. Domes may reach heights of several hundred meters, and can produce slowly and steadily for months or years. The sides of these structures are composed of unbalanced rock debris. Due to the option of the building up of gas pressure, the dome can experience more volatile eruptions over time. When part of a lava dome collapses while it still contains molten rock and gases, it can create a pyroclastic flow, one of the most fatal forms of a volcanic event. Other hazards linked with lava domes are the destruction of property, forest fires, and lahars triggered by pyroclastic flows close to snow and ice. Lava domes are one of the principal structural features of many stratovolcanoes universal.

Volcano

A volcano is an opening, or break, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface. Volcanic activity connecting the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time.

Volcanoes are usually found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by "different tectonic plates" pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by "convergent tectonic plates" coming jointly. By contrast, volcanoes are typically not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust (called "non-hotspot intraplate volcanism"), such as in the African Rift Valley, the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America and the European Rhine Graben by means of its Eifel volcanoes.

Volcanoes can be caused by "mantle plumes". These so-called "hotspots”, for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, particularly on rocky planets and moons.