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The Health Benefits of Gardening
Yes. Monasteries had gardens designed to calm the soul.
frankbeswick, on 02/15/2024
Growing Underground
I have not hearď of this plant, but it has clearly found an ecological niche. Borneo is species rich and has yet to be fully studied.
frankbeswick, on 02/15/2024
Growing Underground
Online sources from June 2023 discuss a Borneo-an plant scientifically named Pinanga subterranea.
The above-mentioned palm flowers and fruits underground.
Might you have heard tell about it?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
The Health Benefits of Gardening
The first paragraph to the first subheading, Allergies, immunity and the garden, advises us that "The recent issue of The Horticulturalist, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture, waxed eloquently on the festivals and flower ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
The Hidden Garden
Online sources are not being forthright about the phrase origin of Plas Cadnant.
Some sources identify the phrase as Cornish and others as Welsh.
Might you have access to the proper etymology and pronunciation?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
What is organic growing?
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Understanding organics, advises us that "Thus the first requirement of being an organic grower is that you treat your soil not as something to be mined and exploited, but a living thing to be tended, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
Silence
The first paragraph to the first subheading, Magnum silentium, defers to the silent style of Trappist monks.
Is it that Trappist monks minimize all sound or just speech?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
Pilate
Perhaps you have some time freed up by changing your gardening schedules.
Might it be possible to produce that Pontius Pilate novel?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
Who Wrote the Gospels
Some online sources consider a Gospel by Mary.
English Wikipedia tentatively identifies that manuscript as by Mary sister of Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene His follower or Our Lady Mary His mother.
The aforementioned source mentions one version ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
10 Symbols of Easter
Thank you for the Amazing facts about eggs link at the very end of the first subheading, Eggs (and chicken)!
Online sources describe chicken-egg colors as brown and white, as Miha Gasper discusses in the aforementioned, elucidating, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
My Garden World: a Review
Perhaps the spell checker rendered shifts from what should have been swifts, in your comment yesterday in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question!
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
Living off your land: the Practicalities of the Good Life
Some parts of the Asian and the Eurasian world appreciate dairy products from certain horse breeds.
Is horse cheese or horse milk among elite-niche products in the British Isles? If so, might they be home-made or imported?
(Per your comment ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
Gardening in the Park
The roof garden perhaps depends upon some kind of watering system.
Do the park staff have a utility chest or closet up there for keeping hoses and tools?
They perhaps have drawings and maps and photographs that let you in on what is ailing and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
Weather-proof your garden
Thank you!
Bright sunlight can be problematic in some places, such as desert states such as Arizona or Nevada or New Mexico and such as Alaska.
Is the United Kingdom like Washington state, where it rains every other day if not sometimes days ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024
Cruising to Shetland
Thank you!
English Wikipedia describes Staffa as 18th-century dwelling place for one family whose members fought to make their niche there permanent. Perhaps their descendants gave up in the 19th century.
That article identifies extant ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/14/2024