Towards the end of March, I was returning from a trip to the postbox at the Railway Station when I came across this 'carpet' of lesser celandine along the Great Western Way foot/cycle path.William Wordsworth wrote three poems about this humble perennial of the buttercup family which is one of...
Emptying a Neighbour's Plastic Compost Bin
Our next-but-one neighbours are on the move and asked if I could empty their plastic compost-bin. They wanted to take the bin with them but did not want the hassle of bagging up the contents and transporting them to their new home. The compost-bin was a standard recycled plastic unit often sold...
In Praise of Tulips
According to Wikipedia, tulips form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes though I'm not sure that description gives them the credit they deserve!Wild tulips are found over large parts of Central Asia in temperate mountainous regions. Most people will be more familiar...
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