Tendrils: 170114
Hello, and welcome to Tendrils! This week the UK has been in the grip of what used to be called wintry weather, but is now touted as something a lot more apocalyptic. My garden wasn’t in the path of thundersnow, which apparently is a real phenomenon, even if it sound...
When Plants Attack: Glassing grass
This is a ‘green and pleasant land’, due at least in part to our national obsession with lawns 🙂 Now that the cooler, damper weather is upon us, it’s time to stop bemoaning the brown and crispy look of our lawns (did that happen this year?) and look towards making the...
Tendrils: 160827
Welcome to Tendrils! Your weekly recap of the most interesting internet information on plants and gardening. We start this week with a bit of history…. The Maris Piper – a famous potato variety – is 50 years old this year. There’s a whole blog devoted to it, with a...
Tendrils: 160617
Plants can save us from ourselves in a lot of ways. They can clean our air and filter our water. They can take contaminated soils and make them healthy again. They can lock up the carbon dioxide we’re pumping into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. They can even heal...
Tendrils 160429: May Day, sunflowers and skirret
Sunday is May Day, 1st May – historically the time of the Beltane celebration, but now mostly celebrated in the UK as a Bank Holiday weekend, meaning many people have Monday off work 🙂 This weekend is also traditionally one of the busiest garden shopping weekends of...About Me
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