Friday, 9 December 2011

Uhuru

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the independence of Tanganyika Territory from Britain - an event celebrated and commemorated as Uhuru, mea...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Good reads

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The long winter evenings have given me a chance to try to catch up with the piles of reading-matter that have developed over the past few m...
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Saturday, 3 December 2011

Cutting-back hellebores

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The 'woodland' path earlier today. Developing hellebore buds. Cutting-off the old leaves of the hellebores, which I've bee...
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011

A new website for Colesbourne Park - and the snowdrop availability list

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For the past few days Tim Poulter of ComputaCare, based here in Colesbourne, and I have been busy preparing the new website for Colesbourne ...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Erica gracilis (and other Cape heaths)

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Erica gracilis For the past couple of weeks I've been enjoying a generously-sized pot of Erica gracilis , one of the South African Ca...
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Friday, 25 November 2011

Botanical art by Christine Battle

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Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. megalocarpa © Christine Battle 2010 This evening saw the preview of an exhibition of botanical art by Chris...
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Thursday, 24 November 2011

Wild Turkeys for Thanksgiving

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Wild Turkeys in Simon Thompson's bird-encouraging garden, Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 2011 Happy Thanksgiving to all my American...
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