The Dog Walk
May 9, 2014
Buttercup, plantain and wild carrot on the dog walk
The orchid field
...and the more prosaic
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The Marathon des Sables
April 8, 2014
The Marathon des Sables is my second brilliant but bonkers topic recently. It's an ultra distance race over 250km of the Sahara. On foot. Carrying ...
Hauser and Wirth in Somerset
March 31, 2014
Hauser and Wirth are an uber contemporary art dealer, with galleries in Switzerland, New York and London. They're opening a new arts centre in Brut...
The RHS
February 7, 2014
The RHS has copped it from the Twitterati for its "association" with The Ultimate Love Bouquet, Interflora's Valentine's Day offering.
Guarantee...
Somerset Flooding (Again)
January 30, 2014
The flooding in the Somerset Levels is a serious issue which won't go away. I was writing about it this time last year. Even if you don't believe...
Blue Monday
January 20, 2014
Our ground, so hardfaced and unyielding in summer, now saturated, heaving and groaning. Water sits in swales, or oozes from ponds and trickles dow...
Nature in Nevis
November 14, 2013
Busy hunting for Hymenoptera I've just come back from the most fantastic week's break in the West Indies. We went to this lovely hotel in Nevis f...
Badgered to Death
September 30, 2013
Badgers or broadband?What's the worst job in the world? Running the @DefraGovUk twitter account probably shades being in BT's complaints team. Wh...
The Stupid Price of Plants
June 19, 2013
Westcountry Nurseries' lupinsI was at the Gardener's World Show last week with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and the bumblarium, and reflectin...
The End of the World is Nigh
December 19, 2012
why survival is less important than living
Wet Wet... and Still Wet
December 12, 2012
these floods won't go away
Take 5
December 7, 2012
Dave Brubeck, why I'm too young, and an embarrassing ailment
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