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Tree Stories: a Review

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frankbeswick, 1 day ago

Tree Stories: a Review

Stumps can grow roots and sprouts. I have seen this with stumps still upright -- and whose surface I therefore use as a dining table for the food that I leave for wildlife -- in the ground. I have not seen this with stumps lying sideways on the ...

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

Tree Stories: a Review

I am not clear on the answer to this question.

frankbeswick, 2 days ago

An insect friendly garden

Thankyou.

frankbeswick, 2 days ago

A Tree Sacred and Deadly

We know the saying.

frankbeswick, 2 days ago

Tree Stories: a Review

The first paragraph under your second subheading, Stories of Trees, discusses zombie stumps. Were the Duprochet, then the Bader and Leuzinger zombie stumps left with above- and under-ground remnants above-ground or part above- and part below ...

DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago

An insect friendly garden

This article is my favorite among those online covering the Royal Entomological Society garden. I read those online because they're written as the garden is being showcased. The articles available online were informative, especially the Doyle ...

DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago

A Tree Sacred and Deadly

Thank you! What I was finding elsewhere, unlike your clear, helpful, succinct explanation below, was as clear as mud. Would you eastern-ponders have the above saying, that something is "clear as mud" -- ;-D -- to refer to murky statements and ...

DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago

A Tree Sacred and Deadly

The narrows probably refers to the fact that the lough is in fact two laughs linked by a narrow, shallow passage.

frankbeswick, 3 days ago

An insect friendly garden

I saw the garden on television yesterday and I based my article on what I had read about it.

frankbeswick, 3 days ago

Tree Stories: a Review

I have never heard of this custom, so no, it is not done in Britain.

frankbeswick, 3 days ago

A Tree Sacred and Deadly

The second paragraph under your first subheading, A Magical Plant, alludes to Cong Abbey. Online sources correlate cong with the Irish word conga for "narrows." They describe those narrows as the narrow part of a navigable waterway. That seems ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

An insect friendly garden

There are quite a few informative, interesting articles online. Among them I find most educational and entertaining the article Chelsea Show Garden: The Royal Entomological Society Garden by Tom Massey features a working insect laboratory May ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

Tree Stories: a Review

A kitchen without book-lined walls probably means a bathroom, closets and pantries without book-lined walls, correct? Some people in Hawaii and in the continental Unitedstatesian southwest organize book-lined walls for their outdoor rooms ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

Symbols and Meanings in the Story of Bluebeard

No, DerdriuMarriner, I don't have any knowledge about that. Christianity, in general, doesn't take fairy tales too seriously. They are treated as 'just stories for kids' in most cases. Symbolism is more deeply explored by psychologists.

Tolovaj, 4 days ago