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Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
Rowan trees are spread through the British Isles, naturally in rocky terrain, but in lowland areas as an ornamental.
frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024
A day at the Harrogate Flower Show
They are growing in popularity.
frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024
Bodnant Gardens: one of Wales' little gems
There is some information in printed form, but not a great deal.
frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024
Lord of the World: a review
Lots of them. I don't bother with such predictions. When some one asks me whether I believe in the end of the world I reply "yes. It might be in five minutes, it might be a million years, but as I am seventy three unless it happens in the next ...
frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024
Macclesfield Treacle Fair
I have not heard of this usage. But earl grey may be regarded as a dessert tea, and possibly white tea also.
frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024
Macclesfield Treacle Fair
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Unitedstatesian diners sometimes associate certain coffees and teas more as dessert-course drinks than as, for example, breakfast or brunch or lunch or supper main-course or snack-time potables.
Does that happen in the British Isles?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
Lord of the World: a review
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The film The coming convergence came out just before the COVID shutdown on the western side of the Atlantic pond.
The aforementioned film declares that all the signs of the Second Coming end up realized by 2017. It features ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
Bodnant Gardens: one of Wales' little gems
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The second paragraph to the second subheading, The water feature, alerts us to a wild garden whose tending averts blackberry, Japanese knotweed and rhododendron intruders.
Does the Bodnant Garden staff hold workshops or release ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
A day at the Harrogate Flower Show
The living-wall image leftward of your title catches my attention.
Unitedstatesian living walls indoors cluster kitchen herbs most practically.
Do indoor living walls have their appeal in the British Isles?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
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A sandy peninsula apparently anchors one component island to another in the two-island Thunder-God island. Online sources bare as land cover granite-veined metamorphic rock, heathland, machair grassland and peatland. They ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
Benedict XVI: a life
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It intrigues me what that private garden kept as plant types.
Might Benedict XVI have planned what that garden offered or must such decisions be by the gardeners alone or in conjunction with their gardening superiors, with or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
Benedict XVI
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The Vatican has precise procedures for the time between one papal term ended and another papal term launched, correct?
Is it a group or one person that manages that interim?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
Green Funerals
Your comments Oct. 23, 2014, consider among tree species in a green-funeral woodland "small fruit" trees.
Is that a fruit tree of small stature -- ;-D -- or a fruit tree with small fruit ;-D?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
I do not know the kind of terrain on which the tree grows, so I cannot comment with certainty, but Rowan is a tree that is propagated by birds passing out its seeds which they have ingested, and they .ca do this some distance away from where ...
frankbeswick, on 02/28/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
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Online sources only designate in a way that draws one toward island land cover machair grassland. Scots Gaelic sites give, without its component parts, just the descriptive, general meaning of "fertile plain."
Irish Gaelic sites ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024