Greenfinches can be found throughout the year within gardens, with numbers increasing during the winter months. Depending upon where you live, you may find that Siskins are either year-round visitors or just appear for a period during late winter. The chances are that you will get the opportunity to view these two species alongside one another, providing the ideal conditions to really work out ...

one of the methods of understanding and evaluating the irrigation management is to measure soil moisture, plant indices and vegetation temperature. the present study aims to introduce a traditional pattern of irrigation management (continuous water rotation in an irrigation zone) in the pistachio gardens of ardakan, and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. a tdr device was used in a one-month...

background spoilage of tea (camellia sinensis) is often accompanied by contamination and formation of mycotoxins, which are toxic secondary metabolites produced by specific tea-borne fungi. objectives the purposes of this study were to isolate aspergillus flora in the air from tea gardens and factories in gilan and mazandaran provinces, in northern iran, and to determine their protein patterns....

Respect and reverence for water and trees are institutionalised in many ancient civilisations due to socio-cultural traditions, values and beliefs. In Iranian societies, respect for trees and water, separately and in composite form as gardens, is a well-known cultural value both before and after Islam. Therefore, the first part of this paper explains the value and importance of plants and ga...