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Electric Green: The Great Snowdrop Experiment*
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014. The Great Snowdrop Experiment*. It may or may not be common knowledge that I have a book out this year. It is on snowdrops* , for which I have a lifelong love and appreciation. This is clearly not the same thing as having a humungeous collection of rarities. If you want such a thing, go and talk to my friend Joe Sharman. Where that is concerned, he's the boy. Published by Timber Press. Out in the US in April, the rest of you will have to wait. One of my snowdrops. G nivalis.
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Electric Green: October 2014
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Wednesday, 1 October 2014. A letter to my snowdrop-loving friends, after E. A. Bowles. My Dear Galanthophil*,. I am writing to you in some excitement: my book, The Plant Lover’s Guide to Snowdrops is finally released in the UK. By now you may even have a copy, in which case I hope you are enjoying it. There are, as you know, different sorts of books on Galanthus. The terribly serious academic ones, the terribly gorgeous arty ones, and mine. So what’s it all about? Well may you ask. So what delighted me m...
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Electric Green: January 2012
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Sunday, 8 January 2012. I also took some pictures of moss and lichen. It looks like I have entered into a diabolical pact over trees and tree planting. I am holding my ground, but when pressed as to why it could not be removed when the main groundworks take place I admitted that some of my indecision hung on the fact that specimen trees are not exactly cheap. At which point I was told that if the willow went, a replacement would be paid for – up to a point. 8211; perhaps too slow growing;. Fear not gentl...
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Electric Green: Retail Therapy
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Friday, 24 May 2013. This is Dorney Court Kitchen Garden in Berkshire: a design-led independent nursery with equally good plants and cake. There is a bunch of new kids in town. Pretenders to the horticultural sales throne lining up for a slice of the plant-purchase pie; supermarkets and high street retailers are jostling into the base of a pyramid of gardening expertise which is topped by artisan nurseries and with garden centres, DIY sheds and their ilk piled up variously beneath. So how are they doing?
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Electric Green: February 2013
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Friday, 1 February 2013. The Essential Apocalypse Skillset. Let me tell you a story. Several years ago, I was painting the bathroom of a house in Bristol. The window was open and it was a pleasant sort of day and people were wandering past. Around about four o’clock I heard a couple of sets of feet come down the hill and then stop. 8220;Look, cherries! 8221; said one voice (female, mid to late teens). 8220;Well, they look like cherries. Let’s try them! Century Cockerney cliché of choice]. When I was a ch...
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Electric Green: April 2012
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Monday, 2 April 2012. Time locked potato, after the sea witch. Here we are. It is early April. The sun is shining spring is sprung and they are forecasting snow for mid week, (surely some mishtake? Which brings me to a sad story. So I am going to put this failed and abandoned experiment out of its misery. Send it off to the great compost heap in the sky. Hope springs eternal, but sometimes even hope is not quite enough. Perhaps it is art. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am a journalist,...
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Electric Green: June 2012
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Sunday, 10 June 2012. Couch Grass vs Cucurbits - the showdown. Squashes ready for battle. I am annoyed. Annoyed and frustrated. Annoyed frustrated and thoroughly vexed. “By what, Best Beloved? 8221; I hear you ask, concern in your voice, your gentle brow lightly furrowed (and having evidently recently re-read the Just-So stories). So I have a plan. An ambitious plan. “And what is thy scheme of redoubtable cunning regarding the aforementioned productive location, Best Beloved? Aha It is this. 8217; and ke...
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Electric Green: February 2015
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Saturday, 28 February 2015. Fly Fishing' at Bellefield House. My latest snowdrop crush. Back in the dim and distant mists of time, when dinosaurs roamed the land and pterodactyls were frequent bird table visitors, I spent an enjoyable few years managing rock bands. I have just finished a modestly epic tour of the land, promoting The Plant Lover’s Guide to Snowdrops. And, as I pull myself vertical, brush off the debris and straighten out again, there are some clear parallels. With normal social convention...
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Electric Green: Scissors Paper Stone
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Sunday, 15 June 2014. My local municipal flowerbed, back when it used to be fun. I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about municipal planting and garden design in public spaces. It is an opportunity to bring style, excitement or just a bit of beauty to the masses; and one that is usually left to languish in unkempt evergreen scrub. This is somewhere that a little planning and creativity could reap dividends, but the norm is either uninspired, high maintenance and wasteful, or both. Since then I have obser...
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Electric Green: On The Road
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Saturday, 28 February 2015. Fly Fishing' at Bellefield House. My latest snowdrop crush. Back in the dim and distant mists of time, when dinosaurs roamed the land and pterodactyls were frequent bird table visitors, I spent an enjoyable few years managing rock bands. I have just finished a modestly epic tour of the land, promoting The Plant Lover’s Guide to Snowdrops. And, as I pull myself vertical, brush off the debris and straighten out again, there are some clear parallels. With normal social convention...
