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Hello! Tendrils wilted in the heat yesterday, but I have revived it in a bucket of water over night and I think it will stay fresh enough to provide you with some wonderful weekend reading 😉 If you’re heading to Cornwall this summer, foragers are being being...
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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 If we flip over to the Gardening channel, we’ve got a...
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...
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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...
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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...About Me
Hello, my name is Emma.
I'm an ethnobotanist. I love edible and useful plants, and my garden is my sanctuary. I'm building a beautiful, bountiful paradise in my back yard.
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