Trees and Plants in a Kin's Domain
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Through thought alone it is possible to grow a flower on the Moon, create an atmosphere capable of supporting human life, plant a garden there and find one's self with one's beloved in that garden in the flesh. But, before that can happen, thought must transform the whole Earth into a flourishing Paradise garden. And that has to be done through collective thinking.
Collective thought is indeed powerful -- in the whole Universe there is no energy that can interfere with its operation..
An image is an entity of energy invented by human thought. It can be created by a single Man or several together.
The ability to create images is something only Man is endowed with.
The image created by Man can remain in space only so long as it is held in Man's thought -- either by a single Man or by several at once.
The greater the number of people feeding the image with their feelings, the stronger it becomes.
The image created by the collective thought can possess colossal destructive or creative potential. It has a reciprocal connection with people and is capable of shaping character and behaviour on the part of groups both large and small.
-Anastasia, as told to Vladimir in the "Book of Kin"
On one hectare each (our Kin’s Domain or Family Domain), we will build & create a Space of Love and Living Paradise, each will have a:
- Splendid garden: vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, nuts
- A Natural Pond (at least 16-meters across)
- Flower beds
- Orchard
- Meadows of natural grasses and herbs
- Grove of woodland trees – Red maples, Sugar maples, Flowering dogwoods, European Beech, Sweet gum, Flowering cherry, Birch trees
- A living forest – Western Red Cedars, Coast Redwoods, Sequoias, English Oaks, Coast Live Oaks, Douglas firs, Sitka spruce, Western hemlock, Mountain hemlock and many others, some listed below
- A home – (Guide: A Barefoot Home)
- A living fence comprised of Siberian cedar trees and flowering shrubs
- A family tree – Siberian Cedar or Other Personal Choice
- A hive of bees
- Local vegetation and weeds including hemp for ground nitrogenization.
Following is a partial listing of pre-selected vegetation and trees to grow on each domain. It is by no means all-inclusive nor is it exclusive of one's own individual choice or selection.
TREES
Many plant species are found in the Taiga, but coniferous trees are obviously the dominant plant form. These trees shed snow easily, and they retain their needles through the winter. The needles themselves are well-adapted, with thick waxy coatings and small surface area, to resist cold conditions and minimize water loss, an important consideration even in the swampy taiga where water may be frozen much of the year. Together, these adaptations mean that even in cool conditions, if the temperature rises above freezing during the day photosynthesis can proceed. Broadleaf plants usually lose their leaves at the onset of freezing conditions in the fall and will not regrow them until most of the danger of frost has passed. This means that the growing season of broad-leafed trees is much shorter than it is for coniferous trees, and the advantage the coniferous trees gain allows them to dominate in the cold taiga climate (note that broad leaves are much more efficient, so if conditions are favorable (warm and moist) they are the preferred leaf type).
Important conifer types include firs and pines, spruces, hemlocks, and larches. All of these tree types bear cones of one sort or another (above). The seeds are retained in these structures until they open and cast the seeds out, often from a considerable height. Some species of birds and mammals may also open the cones foraging for the seeds. With two seeds per scale, it is likely that as the animal breaks one seed loose the other will fall free to the forest floor. Some cones do not open until there has been a fire, but since fire is not an important aspect of the taiga that is probably not the case for most taiga conifers.
SEQUOIAS - Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) are not really a boreal species (they live in the Sierra Nevada of California, and are probably more of a temperate rainforest species. The Sequoias are an interesting species not just because of their great size. Like their large brethren the coastal redwoods, they require more water than the typical conifer, and they find it here on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada as moist air coming off the Pacific Ocean rises, cools, and loses its moisture in the form of rain and snow over the western slopes. This microclimate isn't so wet as to be classified as a temperate rain forest, but it is obviously different than the climate of the surrounding Sierra Nevada which supports a more typical conifer assemblage.
1. Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) 307’+ tallest recorded
2. Coast Redwood (Sequoia Sempervirens) 369’+ tallest recorded - redwoods should not be planted with coast live oaks, which expect a rainless summer and if kept moist will die of root rot.
CEDARS
3. Siberian Cedar (Pinus Sibirica Du Tour) - these are the “Ringing Cedars of Russia” as spoken of by Anastasia of the Taiga in the Ringing Cedars Book Series
4. Western Red Cedar / Canoe Cedar (Thuja Plicata) – 194’+tall
HICKORIES
BIRCHES – Birches are among the most cold-tolerant of the deciduous trees and their presence is usually a sign that one is at the boundary of a coniferous and a deciduous forest. Aspens play a similar role in the mountains of the western U.S.
CHESTNUTS
OAKS
MAPLES
ASHES
NEEM
TAMANU
CAMPHOR
