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Understanding Plant Classification
Research. The cricket bat willow is a subspecies that only flourishes in a small area of Eastern England. I do not think that it would flourish elseware.
frankbeswick, on 07/27/2024

Understanding Plant Classification
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
That cricket bat willow (Salix alba caerulea) doesn't encourage growing indoors intrigues me. If only I might do so...!
What might motivate someone to plant ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/27/2024

What now for the United Kingdom
The third paragraph to the first subheading, How the UK is governed, alerts us that "The Conservative vote is mainly southern English."
Why is the Conservative appeal biogeographically centered southward?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/27/2024

The ' Tatton Show 2024
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Balled flowers growing naturally perhaps get a trim from time to time, no? Or might they naturally shed parts growing out of perfectly, photogenically rounded ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/27/2024

The Symbolism of the Woods in Fairy Tales
The computer crashed before I commenced the other component to my comment yesterday to your comment in answer -- ;-D -- to my previous observation and question.
Your comment identified the Brothers Grimm as including snakes in some fairy ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/27/2024

Review: Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
Very accurate.
frankbeswick, on 07/26/2024

A Farm of Your Own
Maybe three hours
frankbeswick, on 07/26/2024

Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds
No. We have never, sampled sea, salt ice cream?
frankbeswick, on 07/26/2024

The ' Tatton Show 2024
Theybarbtakennwith care. The balled flowers grow naturally That way..
frankbeswick, on 07/26/2024

Review: Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observations and questions.
Muscle power can equate with politico-socio-economic power, personally, professionally, publicly.
But perhaps also male ruling elites developed because of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/26/2024

A Farm of Your Own
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
The automobile and the train trips sound quite welcoming in their variedly beautiful scenery, from inland hills to sea coasts.
How long would the train trips ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/26/2024

Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds
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The Halen Môn site has salty recipes. One recipe particularly intrigues me: sea-salt ice cream.
Might you and your family ever have had Halen Môn sea-salt ice ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/26/2024

The ' Tatton Show 2024
Thank you for sharing all the beautiful photographs by your expert-photographer wife and all the fascinating horticultural details.
How do the displayers get the balled flowers so perfectly, so photogenically round in Maureen's next-last image?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/26/2024

The Symbolism of the Woods in Fairy Tales
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
The mosquito fable intrigues me. Might I have the name of the Slovenian top writer -- competitive with or second to you ;-D -- and the title of that fable?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/26/2024

The Symbolism of the Woods in Fairy Tales
From the top of my head I remember one fairy tale (more like fable) about a mosquito and many about snakes. The mosquito tale was written by our (Slovenian) top writer, so you won't find it, but there are several about snakes by the Brothers ...
Tolovaj, on 07/26/2024