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Restoration at Kew Gardens: the temperate house
The last sentence in the first paragraph to the first subheading, The Temperate House, describes Kew Gardens as perhaps "the only botanical garden with its own police force, constables who deal with minor infringements and who perform a patrol ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The third paragraph to the third subheading, Projected image of a sensory garden, considers that "The plants selected for the garden will include many that will attract butterflies and bees."
Sensory gardens get my admiration and respect for ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
Kentucky Derby History: Upset Winners and Unexpected Losers
The third paragraph to the sixth long-shot, Canonero II, 1971, advises us that "As a stallion, he did not get quality mares and had little opportunity to reproduce his brilliance, and was sent back to Venezuela."
Is it known why Canonero II ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Mystery of Evil
The last paragraph to the last subheading, Humanity's role, contains indeed "a grim tale."
Good and healing perhaps may be achieved somewhat in the perpetrators being accountable. They also may be achieved by the undeserving casualties being ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs
It is a standard beer glass, nothing special about it.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Shrine that Survived the Reformation
By accident. We were holidaying in rural South Wales and it was on a local farm.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs
Thank you for your comment April 6, 2023, in answer to my previous question April 5, 2023.
English Wikipedia carries the article Boddingtons Bitter. It displays that beer in a glass alongside a can.
That glass looks distinctive, with a bulge ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Shrine that Survived the Reformation
Thank you!
Perhaps that well no longer exists even as it functioned as an unimportant, "very small well."
Might it become neglected and overgrown? In such case, should it be decommissioned or permitted to merge slowly with the surrounding ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The first paragraph to the first subheading, Capitalising on a natural love of the land, advises us that "The percentage of students indigenous to this land can vary from around 75% - 85% depending on how people travel."
How does "how people ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The sixth symbol, Oven, configures hellish, regressive, womb-like associations.
Is it possible that in a way it joins your transformational symbols?
What moves in one way, such as raw flour or raw meat, moves out another way respectively as ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk
Spelling error, probably thevspell checker. In the previous response the word there is wronglynwritten as beer. Sorry.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk
Carnedd is a kind of hill, I do not think that beer is anything other than a lettrer group. Au is a plural suffix.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
Restoration at Kew Gardens: the temperate house
Probably. The American air force fed well and were generous. My father was very grateful.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Summer Isles: a book review
None as dangerous as the three that you have mentioned, but Cape Wrath in North West Scotland is hard in bad conditions. The Goodwin Sands off Kent a mass of drowned lands onto which ships have been storm driven, and the coast of Cornwall are ...
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The first one you mention is mine alone. It is a photo of a painting.
I'll get back to you about the rest. Jo
Jo_Murphy, on 03/11/2024