“. . . human carelessness [and lightening] often provides the ignition sources for fires in areas like Northern California. However, without the underlying severe climate conditions, such fires would not have become so large or spread so fast.”
Nigel Boldero aka 'Old School Gardener'
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- 12 tips to save time in the garden (12)
- A musing: odd thoughts (21)
- A Select Vietnamese flora (3)
- A-Z of Garden Trees (23)
- A-Z of Perennials (26)
- Aussie Greens- gardens, parks and open spaces visited in trips to Australia (2)
- Blickling Hall- rebirth of the Walled Garden (88)
- Blogging (13)
- Climate change and gardening (68)
- Community Gardening (114)
- Dear Walter – letters/info from Old School Garden (81)
- Design (394)
- Design My Garden – Tips to improve your plot (12)
- Eat Me: guides to growing and using food plants (5)
- Feature plants (189)
- Floral Roundabouts (4)
- Four Seasons in One Day- series on climate change and gardening (5)
- Gardening and Gardeners: historical snapshots (42)
- Gardening equipment and tools (67)
- Gardening techniques (392)
- Gardening Therapy (3)
- GQT: your gardening queries answered (43)
- Great Gardens (179)
- Great Gardens: Scotland 2016 (6)
- Grow your own food (156)
- Growing Children- series on school gardening (7)
- Haveringland Churchyard (1)
- Health (14)
- Hebridean Hop- a tour of some Scottish isles (4)
- Heritage Gardens & gardening (285)
- Historic landscapes (129)
- John Evelyn's Monthly in the Garden (12)
- Local Food (20)
- Monthly Top ten gardening tips (12)
- Mrs. Murphy's Laws of Gardening (14)
- New Zealand 2019 (19)
- Norfolk in poetry- Jack Kett (13)
- Open Spaces (54)
- Over My Head- looking up at architectural detailing (8)
- Permaculture and sustainability (8)
- Pests and diseases (28)
- PicPosts- great photographs (811)
- Plantax- the stories behind plant names (21)
- Planting Patterns- wow factor pictures (41)
- Play (205)
- Playful Landscapes- examples (9)
- Portuguese Gardens (31)
- Power of 7- tips (24)
- Recycling projects (110)
- School and childrens' Gardening (81)
- Soils and soil improvement (62)
- Style Counsel: snippets on garden styles (13)
- The Essence of Gardening in 12 Objects (12)
- This and that (1,452)
- West Country Gardens (24)
- Wildlife and Nature (419)
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Recent Posts
- 2019 Media Perspectives on Play – An Even Dozen — PlayGroundology
- Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill — TIME GENTS
- Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part II: the Post-War Housing Drive — Municipal Dreams
- New Zealand 2019: #20- Doubtful Sound, Fjordland, South Island
- Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part I: ‘Shrewsbury’s first garden suburb’ — Municipal Dreams
- The wines of Wine & Soul — Salt of Portugal
- New Zealand 2019: #19- Hot stuff, Rotorua
- ACER PALMATUM ‘BLOODGOOD’ — The Garden of Eaden
- New Zealand 2019: #18- on the road
- New Zealand 2019: #17- Art installation, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum, Wellington
- New Zealand 2019: #16- The steepest street in the world, Dunedin
- New Zealand 2019: #15- Napier Shop front
- New Zealand 2019: #14- Biosecurity to protect a Kauri tree colony
- New Zealand 2019: #13- Queenstown Steamer
- Grasses at the year’s end. — greenbenchramblings
- New Zealand 2019: #12- Maori Art
- December Blooms: Out for the Count — Rambling in the Garden
- New Zealand 2019: #11- Devonport Post Office
- Playback — PlayGroundology
- A Winter Cleaning for the Birdhouses — gardeninacity
- New Zealand 2019: #10- Fernery
- Four Seasons in One Day (4): the Well – Informed Gardener and Climate Change
- Smelted chocolate — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- New Zealand 2019: #9- Auckland Sky Tower
- Four Seasons in One Day (3): Climate Change and the Constant Gardener
- Actual Good News, from Prison Gardens — GardenRant
- New Zealand 2019: #8- Gillespie’s Beach, near Hokitika, South Island
- Four Seasons in One Day (2): Preparing the garden for climate change
- Opposition publican ‘cut the grass’ on the Blue Duck’s grand opening — TIME GENTS
- New Zealand 2019: #7- Rotorua Museum
- Four Seasons in One Day (1): Climate change and the garden
- A canal-side garden in winter – John’s Garden Part 2 — greenbenchramblings
- New Zealand 2019: #5- Christchurch..remembering those lost in the 2011 earthquake
- New Zealand 2019: #4- Auckland Botanical Gardens
- January- top ten gardening tips
- The Sussex Weald: the realm of the ancient — Daniel Greenwood
- New Zealand 2019: #3- THAT Tree in Lake Wanaka
- The Winter King — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- New Zealand 2019:#2- Sunlit Cleomes at Napier Botanical Gardens
- Drinkers join the Salvos in Christmas carols outside South Brisbane pub — TIME GENTS
- New Zealand 2019: #1 Maori Chief
- The Story of the Christmas song, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” — My Good Time Stories
- Dear Walter…..a letter to Walter de Grasse, 27th December 2019
- The generosity of cork oaks — Salt of Portugal
- The Great Hydrangea Experiment — Nitty Gritty Dirt Man
- Woodland enterprise — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- The Treasury Hotel, Brisbane — TIME GENTS
- Making Way for World Children’s Day — PlayGroundology
- Multiply by Waugh Thistleton Architects wins Wood Award — Specifier Review
- GrowHaus, the Farm in a City — gardeninacity
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