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Nov 19, 2018Nov 2018

The mild autumn leaves still a lot of colour in the garden, and now the winter flowers are starting too. With Chrysanthemum, Iris foetidissima in berry, some climbing roses still going and winter jasmine just starting.

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Nov 18, 2018Nov 2018

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More natural history than is usual for this group, but the look at bird behavior is wonderful.

My vegetable plot in winter. In this part of the UK it is possible to overwinter leeks and parsnips in the ground most years. So these remain now though most of it is cleared and dug. Interestingly I have read, that they were the main two vegetables ...

The first of the Mahonia shrubs is just coming into flower now, it is a hybrid form from Asia, M. medina I think. Before the hard winter we had here in 2010 to 2011, it was over head high, but that winter the top was killed completely. It seemed ...

Do you think it true? That when we reject organized religion, we can still get caught by pseudo-religions, such a the belief that nature has meaning and purpose, the idea of so called spiritual values or that the arts can give us “artistic ...

This is not about growing but I thought you would like it. Many books on garden history say that, people in the middle ages and before, did not value views and landscape, even in gardens; but I do not think that human nature changes that much with ...

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Nov 15, 2018Nov 2018

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Here are some you may not have met with before, and they show just how quirky evolution can be.

For years I saved every bit of used potting compost in a heap, this year I have enough to mulch the whole garden with it. There may not be much food left in it but it still makes the plants grow.

Phygelius is only on the edge of being hardy here. I have to grow it by the stream, which being spring fed and warm all year keeps a little frost away. And sometimes you get a late flower or two after the main show and just for a while before the ...

Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right. H.L. Mencken

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is a prison. H.D. Thoreau I will post this one with a link too, well worth five mins.

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Nov 8, 2018Nov 2018

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Long ago, far far away, something fundamental happened. I love this it is a bit speculative but still a good story.

Nothing so absurd can be said, that some philosopher has not said it. Cicero.

My father passed away not long ago, one of the last things he did was to make, with my help, this eyecatcher, plant frame for the wood.

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Nov 3, 2018Nov 2018

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Is there something big out there? This video has a lot in a small space.

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Nov 2, 2018Nov 2018

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I posted this on another page but it is worth posting twice. Perhaps one of the saddest films ever, just give up three mins. of your time, to learn about lose and the results of human arrogance and disinterest. And see also, Hathacats post, This is ...

But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me / The Quarrel of the Universe let be: / And, in some corner of the Hubhub coucht, / Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee. Edward Fitzgerald./Omar K.

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Oct 31, 2018Oct 2018

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One for the Halloween time of year.

I think that this one could be very useful if someone has just been negative about your post, or even trolled you. Jean Sibelius. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. Konrad Lorenz

All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given ...

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Oct 28, 2018Oct 2018

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If you want begin understanding yourself at the most basic, then this is a good watch.

The first of the winter colour is now showing in the garden, with Jasmine, Lamium, red crab apples (there are a lot of apples this year) and Winter viburnum, which flowers with us all winter and smells strongly of hyacinths especially if you bring ...

I certainly claim the title of “nerd” . In fact I am proud flag waving Nerd Pride member. Another member really liked this. (Definition. Nerd. Envy word used by the victims of popular culture, for those who escaped.)

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Oct 25, 2018Oct 2018

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This one is really thought provoking, and you are free to have as much fun speculating as you wish.

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Oct 24, 2018Oct 2018

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If you have an interest in DNA but are not an expert then this is worth watching.

The Ginkgo in the garden now is just coming up to full colour, I hope this weeks winds are not going to be too strong.

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Oct 22, 2018Oct 2018

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Watch this one and wonder if we will get lucky.

"When you are not able to forgive an indiscretion against you, you give that person power over you." One of the sites own members SukiSue wrote a post which included this line which I thought well worth quoting, as a stand alone. So I thought that ...

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells

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Oct 21, 2018Oct 2018

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This is really the deep past. I enjoyed the a lot, and hope it works, I am new site and this is my first attempt at a video link.

The instinctive need be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are. Konrad Lorenz

The summer season ends for me (as the photo shows) at the last 'plant fair', at a wonderful old priory here in the UK. Do other countries have these events?

But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me / The Quarrel of the Universe let be: / And, in some corner of the Hubhub coucht, / Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee. Edward Fitzgerald.

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Thomas Jefferson

Is anyone else grateful that the fashion for the word 'Bright' seems to be fading. I always thought it patronizing to fellow sceptics and insulting to the many blameless victims of religion.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. Confucious. Posted in response to Marionville's post.

Even now with autumn coming on there is still plenty of colour in the garden. Rose 'Albertine', Viburnum opulus the Geulder Rose, Sorbus the Mountain Ash and Phlox.

But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend, - Denied in heaven the Soul he held on earth – While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven. Byron. (Early text against speciesism?)

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