Jacob Burckhardt's interpretation of the renaissance was a prototype of the modern world. Scholars think he overlooked the continuity between the middle ages and the renaissance. Also other renaissances had revived ancient things like Greek science, the Latin language, and a liking of the worth and creativity of individuals. To fifteenth-sixteenth century Italy the term meant a time of growth.
A kelp forest off of the coast of Anacapa Island, California. Giant kelp uses gas filled floats to keep the plant suspended, allowing the kelp blades near the ocean surface to capture light for photosynthesis.
A BIT MORE... A widely popular western California native, this evergreen low-growing shrub or ground cover blankets the ground in attractive foliage and, beginning in March, pretty blue flowers clusters that stop nature lovers in their tracks. At Boething Treeland Farms, âYankee Pointâ outsells all other Ceanothus varieties. As its native habitat is the coastal rocky slopes just south of Carmel, California, be prepared to provide excellent drainage as well as full sun and very little water once it is established.