Back in March of last year I wrote a long post about Carl Linnaeus, Horologium flore, and the Flower Clock. I wrote something to the effect of how cool and idea it was and that I was not that thrilled with the idea of pulling this off on a practical basis.

Let alone an impractical one.

[At this site and many other sites on the web.]

Well it seems Joel Lerner is more gun-ho on the idea. Joel has published a very fine article in the Washington Post on the Horologium flore from Feb 9th of this year. The best thing about his article is a very detailed and long plant list.

Joel has even added times when plants tend to open.

He seems more practical about the idea and comes at it from a “let’s do this today“, as opposed to my, “hey look at what these wacky guys were thinking about“. Kind of thing.

Unrelated

Another great clock from the Kirchler Society blog

[Kircher’s Sunflower Clock.]

Something Else

On a really unrelated not here’s a link to another really weird/cool site with a look at interesting graphics, video’s and art-related stuff called a Near Life Experience, it’s worth a look . . . . if you know what I mean.

A Design Question?

Even though I don’t get much comment when it comes to questions, I tend to get e-mail.

Here’s one for the comment section. Has anyone ever asked for a Horologium flore?