Do choose drought resistant plantsAlso- see this great article:
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A few more clippings from a book I bought in a charity shop last summer ….
From : ‘Mrs. Murphy’s Laws of Gardening’ – Faith Hines (Temple House books, 1992)
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Anthemic tinctoria ‘E.C. Buxton’- suitable for the ‘Chelsea Chop’
Picture by Mike Smith
‘Sow Endive, Succory, Chervil, Sellerie, purselan (which you may also continue sowing all the summer to have tender) leeks, Beetes, parsneps, salsifix, skirrits, Turneps &c. and now Cherish and Earth-up your flowers, and set stakes to the tallest: sow also lettuce.’
Grow lettuce- on a fence!
John Evelyn 1686 (published 1932)
OK, who knows what a skirrit is?!
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The Lily pond, Cawston Park, Norfolk on a 5 mile walk this afternoon.
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A visitor to New Zealand can’t help noticing how many native ferns there are and how large they can get. It’s not an exaggeration to say that some grow as tall as trees, and people even refer to them as tree ferns. I photographed the ones in today’s picture, which were perhaps two or three times my height, in the shade of the forest at the Parry Kauri Park in Warkworth*, in the northern part of the North Island, on the afternoon of February 6. Kiwis (as the inhabitants of New Zealand are known) will recognize that as Waitangi Day, the national holiday, and in fact earlier in the day our hosts had taken us to attend the festivities at Waitangi itself.
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* New Zealand English generally drops an r that closes a syllable or that’s part of a syllable-final consonant cluster, so
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