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Do you remember the tree urchin?
Back in 2012 I was amazed by the tree urchins, i.e. the fantastic red galls on Dipterocarpus tuberculatus. As it turned out, the insect responsible for this gall is indeed the aphid-related Beesonia...
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Ton kwaw luang
The native orange-flowered form of Butea monosperma (ton kwaw) is the drought- and fire-resistant province flower of Chiang Mai. Its flowers are heavenly beautiful in December-January. When I visited...
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Santol pie
We are now back in Sweden, where an unusual drought with temperatures at 32-35 centigrades makes us feel just like home (in Thailand). We brought back a santol fruit (Sandoricum koetjape, Meliaceae)...
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Same girl and same tree 68 months later
In 2009 one of Dokmai Garden’s native pink shower saplings (Cassia bakeriana) lost its entire crown due to borers. I took the decision to cut the dead wood, leaving a pathetic stump and hope for a...
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Old and new friends
So nice to meet old and new friends yesterday, representing e.g. the British Royal Horticultural Society, orchidology, plant physiology, marine biology, the Expats Club, oil industry, Thai agriculture...
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Black bears in the trees
Upon our arrival to Chiang Mai and our beloved Dokmai Garden I noticed a multitude of large, black and hairy larvae on the trunks of our trees. They reminded me of black bears or skunks from a Walt...
View ArticleSee you at Dokmai Garden on Wednesday, July 18th 2018!
Dear friends of Thai flora, At present we stay at Dokmai Garden during vacation. To catch up with friends and colleagues we invite you to a social gathering at Dokmai Garden next Wednesday, the 18th of...
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Happy New Year with the novel app Curio-xyz for trees!
Dear friends of Thai flora, It has been a long time since I wrote a blog for Dokmai Dogma. I am busy teaching dendrology, tree physiology and tree pathology at our arborist classes at Sweden’s largest...
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Impressions of an arborist student
Dear readers of Dokmai Dogma, The blog still has around 200 readers a day in spite of me nowadays working in Sweden. At present I teach about trees in the temperate zone which is why I have not added...
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Dokmai Garden revisited
Dear friends of Thai flora, Due to an overwhelming workload in Sweden we have not had time for tropical Dokmai Dogma blogs. However, we paid a swift visit to Dokmai Garden in Chiang Mai this July, and...
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News from the 16th Flora of Thailand Conference
The 16th Flora of Thailand Conference was held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, earlier this week. The amount of new and important information is quite large, so I have prepared a series of blogs to...
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Hogwarts for real
Dear friends of Thai flora, I am still in Swedish exile but preparing for the 16th Flora of Thailand meeting in London next week. To show the love for flora in Sweden, I wish to share some impressions...
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Elite plants
Plant shopping in Chiang Mai is exciting, but the lack of scientific names and the high risk of buying unhealthy plants or plants unsuitable to the Chiang Mai monsoon climate can sometimes cause...
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Sheep for sale!
Dokmai Garden has decided to sell the sheep after a seven months experiment. The sheep are perfect in a pen with grass, but wandering about in the precious botanical garden they cause a lot of trouble:...
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Songkran in Eslöv
During my exile in Sweden I sometimes feel homesick. Luckily there is a Buddhist temple, Wat Sanghabaramee in Eslöv, just half an hour’s drive from my Swedish home. I was invited to participate during...
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Would it be possible to create a northern Thai wooden library?
A week ago I took my Swedish arborist students to the library at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp. The aim was to study the 200 years old wooden library. Larix sp. Each of...
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The 16th Flora of Thailand Conference
Although Dokmai Garden flourishes, tourism suffers as usual during times of political turbulence and embassy warnings. To keep up the spirits I have been asked to write a blog now and then from my...
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Self-replicating machines
John von Neumann explored the theoretical possibilities to construct self-replicating machines. This is not science fiction. At Dokmai Garden we have self-replicating lawn mowers based on the latest...
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New animals
1. First of all I wish to report a new bird species at Dokmai Garden: White-rumped Munia. According to literature this is a common bird found in most of Thailand. However, at Dokmai Garden the...
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The lion’s mane orchid
The orchid Bulbophyllum ovatum (Orchidaceae) opened its first flowers ever at Dokmai Garden on the 8th of September. The first day the flowers were bright orange, the following days they faded to a...
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