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July 6, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Indentured vegetables.

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July 5, 2010 | Hampton Court palace flower show 2010: some impressions

overactive bladder garden

in aid of Over active bladders

It could be considered the second best.  Chelsea Flower Show is  Cinderella’s slipper.  Everyone wants to try it on.  Hampton Court seems to have lurked in the shadow of the sister’s rhinestone bedecked footwear.  A plea must be made to let Hampton topple the haughty dominance of its slender [...]

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July 4, 2010 | Drat that bracken

The first world war turned bracken into a serious menace.  The exodus of agricultural workers from the land and with that, gone was the regular cutting back of this plant.  Pteridium aquilinum.  Long out of print,  ’Weeds and Aliens’  by Sir Edward Salisbury,  tells it straight: “one of the more noxious weeds of better drained [...]

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July 2, 2010 | Celebrity pin up

WHO?       THIERRY HUAU

WHY?        This man is behind the rebuilding of Beirut.

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July 2, 2010 | Monthly black list

A snazzy cultivar of the black elder.  Since I last looked it has aquired a new name, possibly lifted from a dusty cabinet at the back entrance to the British Museum.  Unspellable for any but a serious spelling bee, certainly unpronouncable.  I’m sticking to Sambucus nigra Black Lace. It looks great planted with Calamagrostis x [...]

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