This cerise patio variety continues to have its second flush of flowers providing a splash of colour in the garden during these dull wet December days. Even the frost last week hasn't stopped it.
Monday, 21 December 2020
Thursday, 3 December 2020
Fibonacci curve
I have tried to photograph several flowers to try and get a good Fibonacci curve from sunflowers to daisies and failed. This is the nearest I got with the bud of an Echinacea flower.
Mathematical biologists love sunflowers. The giant flowers are one of the most obvious—as well as the prettiest—demonstrations of a hidden mathematical rule shaping the patterns of life: the Fibonacci sequence, a set in which each number is the sum of the previous two (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, ...), found in everything from pineapples to pine cones
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