To be honest I feel quite ambivalent about AI and largely avoid its use, where I can. I try to ignore the AI information presented within search engines and I don't usually use it to create anything etc etc. I'm worried about copyright issues for instance, and how it's already replacing garden writers who have extensive knowledge gained over many years of experience. Articles can be generated quickly, often with dubious content which is often published without fact checking first. I'm reminded of a central tenet from my time in IT; Garbage In, Garbage Out (aka GIGO), right? However NAH recently benefitted from AI technology when a surgeon assisted by a robot using CT scan data peered deep into his lung and determined the small lump there is benign, thus avoiding him losing around a third of his lung. The latter operation was the preferred approach until the robot technique was developed and often the removed material revealed a benign lump rather than a tumour. We...
Indeed no words are needed, this picture is speaking thousand words. BTW what is this cabbage like green flower on the left?
ReplyDeleteFantastic photo! Alex, those look to me to be different varieties of chrysanthemums.
ReplyDeleteI was staggered! This is your garden? !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (This will teach me to read the post before its title!)
ReplyDeleteMHM - thank you and yes you are indeed right. Alex should know better, seeing he or she is deliberately linking back to a landscaping company.
ReplyDeleteEsther - sadly not and much kudos is due to the company managing to bring these chrysanths on to bloom so well outside of their flowering season :)
Brilliant photo,A friend of mine has the green chrysanthemum along with a bright pink and orange.Her growing instructions told her it needs to be kept in the greenhouse,I took some cuttings,left them in the garden and they have stayed there and flowered for me every year.
ReplyDeleteFlowerlady - thank you :) It's ages since I've grown Chrysanths - I wonder if I could make them last...
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