Readers who follow my garden pages will already have seen spring start to burst in our garden but blossom has been following blossom in such profusion over the last few weeks that it seemed criminal not to share them more widely. So... Pictured above the the cherry tree in the …
Gardens
The blog moves house…
Way back in 2010 when I started this blog, as some of you may remember, its 'header' was a picture of of our garden here at Lawn Road, complete with Boris, our ginger cat, peering in at the bottom. For several months I had considerable fun changing the header each month to …
The ocean is broken – Fukushima fallout
I hate to pierce my rosy Liverpool bubble but I feel that two pieces I read this week do need a wider readership than just me..... One is an article in last months' Townsend Letter detailing the on-going disaster potential of the tsunami-damaged Fukishima nuclear plant in …
Ugly plants have higher pollen counts!
The uglier the plant or flower, the more allergy-inducing its pollens tends to be! What a lovely neat theory being propounded by Dr Robert Valet, assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University – and reported in Science Daily. Although it seems rather …
Daffodils….
As a rule, my garden is firmly penned in to its own page on this blog and not allowed to escape. But, so spectacular is this year's display of Ice Follies that it demanded to be let out so that it could be seen by the wider world! The Ice Follies came as the gift and …