Photo – Will Giles- The Exotic Garden
I enjoy a bit of TV now and then. I’m hooked on social media and the internet. I love interacting with people. But my favorite entertainment doesn’t involve these activities. My kind of entertainment consists of drives on country roads, imagining silly pet commentary, meeting new animal characters, and sharing it all with you. My mama says I’ve always been this way. If you sit and talk with her, she’ll fill your head with stories of adventures that even I can’t remember. So welcome to another of my silly shows. I hope it makes you smile.
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Taking a train ride for Stoke on Trent I was observing Potteries landscape running by, all green and smooth.It made me happy to recognize English countryside just as sculptured in Wallace &Gromit our kids liked that much .Yet my thoughts at that moment were: “If I survive this I shall reward myself with one Wedgwood cup!”-sorry my friends in Stoke, but at that moment I couldn’t know that all the clay and coal from these green paysage helped writing a garden story I would listen with open mouth… 
I met a young man by the name of J. Wedgwood who had planted a flower garden adjacent to his pottery.He also had his men wash their hands and faces and change their clothes after working in the clay.(attributed to John Wesley).
I was happy indeed, when I found this sentence, visiting Wedgwood museum.There were so many potters there around, for centuries, but just one of them, Josiah Wedgwood…
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‘Over the last 3 years we have reached over 2000 young people and families across woodland days, teenage camp, youth training and leadership programmes, forest schools and family days. Our flagship projects, Call of the Wild and Earthwise, were funded under Natural England’s Access to Nature Grant and MIND’s Ecominds Grant and raised over £160,000 towards creating outdoor opportunities for the most disadvantaged groups in our society. The results show that this kind of work leads to better health and wellbeing, more opportunities, a greater sense of community and respect.’
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Today, I am proud to be a guest on the website, My Botanical Garden. I hope that my explorations in knowing the land by walking it daily, camera in hand, will bring the garden’s readers at least some of the delight it has brought me for the past 18 months. Today, I’d like to share a way of looking at gardens: not in space, or in the balance of species with each other, but in time. After all, as creatures of the earth, I think we all live there.
Abandoned Nlaka’pamux Church, Thompson River Grasslands, British Columbia
I think it’s time we all moved back to the Earth.
Gardens live in time. Let’s start with that. It snowed last night. Don’t worry. Here in the dry grasslands in the troughs of a volcanic plateau east of the uplifted volcanoes of the Northeast Pacific Coast, it is not winter. It is late spring…
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Come with me along a winding trail that meanders through trees, alongside hills and next to ancient resting places. A place where people have loved, lived and died. Listen closely as their voices are thrown to the wind, preserved by the trees in their trunks, released only occasionally for those chosen to follow the path. Share the experience of the sun warming your face just like it did for the explorers from the east. Remember what was before, live what is now and imagine what will be as you wander along.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew… is an internationally important botanical research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of £56 million for the year ended 31 March 2008, as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost two million visits in that year. Created in 1759, the gardens celebrated their 250th anniversary in 2009.
The Gardens.. contain the world’s largest collection of living plants… The living collections inlcude more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while the herbarium, which is one of the largest in the world, has over seven million preserved plant specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. The Kew site includes four Grade I listd buildings and 36 Grade II listed structures in an internationally significant landscape.’
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