Some people keep a Buddha statue in their garden. Others have St. Francis. For us, it’s Abraham Lincoln. Not a Lincoln statue, actually, just half of a bookend set I found online.
Category: This and that
I love this time of the year. A view across my vegetable garden or is it Rose and flower garden, you choose.So delighted with my catmint. Nepata six hills giant, it works so well in the box with the roses and so much less work than the annual cosmos, lupins and other plants I tried over…
For the first time the Met Office has set up a trial to see if it is possible to use navigational buoys to gather weather data from near coastal areas. The Met Office has just 10 weather observation buoys around the UK coast, meaning this area, which is vital when it comes to the understanding […]
via Could navigational buoys help with Met Office forecasts? — Official blog of the Met Office news team
We are proud of being English and proud of being typically eccentrically English too. We enjoy doing typical English activities like Afternoon Tea and walking in the park. Recently we enjoyed a three-generation family weekend taking part in an activity only the English could do. We took part in the World Pooh Sticks Championships 2017! […]
via An Eccentric English Day Out – Pooh Sticks! — greenbenchramblings
Would you like to help others know which of the 1000 garden chemical products in Australia are safer for you and your environment? Help create a research-based App showing the safety for you and your environment of 1000 garden products in Australia for pest, weed
This is the 200th post on the blog. I’ll be participating this week in the ‘Architecture, Citizenship, Space: British Architecture from the 1920s to the 1970s‘ conference at Oxford Brookes University. For that reason, I hope you’ll forgive a repost – the first to date – of this piece on the Blackbird Leys Estate which […]
via The Blackbird Leys Estate, Oxford: ‘Never accepted as part of the city proper’ — Municipal Dreams
It seems like the gardening season is one long whirlwind of garden shows. With the Malvern spring show, Chelsea and the new Chatsworth out of the way, garden designers and their teams are ramping up for Hampton Court. Their show gardens may offer up the best and brightest in garden design, but they are just…
via Could you be the UK’s best amateur gardener? — The Unconventional Gardener
What kind of nature photographer would I be if I returned from New Zealand without showing you at least one koru? Koru is the Māori word for what English sometimes calls a fiddlehead, the spirally curled tip of a new fern leaf. I photographed this one on February 19th along the path leading from Dorothy […]
Desperate birdwatchers visiting the Farne Islands’ toilets face an unexpected tern – with a rare bird nesting just inches overhead. An Arctic tern, which will have arrived on the remote Northumberland islands from the Antarctic in May, is incubating two eggs in the grooves of the toilet’s clear corrugated plastic roof. Jen Clark, National Trust […]
via PICTURES: Toilet tern ‘Lulu’ takes up testing nest spot — National Trust Press Office
Is science going to solve all the world’s problems? Can we continue engaging in practices which cause environmental damage and disregard our impact on the planet because ‘one day in the future’, through our technological brilliance, someone else will be able to fix it and all other problems? This is what the ideology of Technological […]
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