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Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
Parkinson's disease slowly destroys the neurons that provide balance.There is no cure. I work at the local park. The manager has two volunteers who are strong and sturdy. They take on the heavy jobs. I am allocated greenhouse management, ...
frankbeswick, on 01/14/2023
To the Island of Tides
The last sentence in the second paragraph to your subheading Lindisfarne includes a reference to The Hound of Heaven poem by Francis Thompson.
The Wikipedia article on that poem references musical settings by William Henry Harris in 1919, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/14/2023
Starting a new garden
Additionally, I'm interested in English cottage garden plantings indoors.
What would be your favorite English cottage garden plants?
Which ones of the above would you suggest as counter, floor, screened-porch, shelving, stair, tabletop, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/14/2023
Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
I'm sorry to read below about your balance.
Are you able to do any gardening outdoors? You still can do indoor gardening, such as tabletop and windowsill plantings, correct?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/14/2023
What is Search Engine Optimization in Digital Marketing
The fourth sentence in your third paragraph mentions that "Some of the metrics are known, while many remain hidden for search engine optimization consultants."
Search engine optimization consultants must have to sign non-disclosure agreements, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/14/2023
Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
Both. You can philosophies on the garden, for example asking questions about the good life. But gardening can raise philosophical questions, e.g. on the ethics of killing pests. Recently the question of surŕendering possessions arose. As my ...
frankbeswick, on 01/13/2023
Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
It is rewarding to delve deep in clear language. Is gardening a vehicle for philosophy? Or is gardening a tool to explain philosophy? Perhaps gardening is best understood via philosophical thought. These do not need to be disjoint.
blackspanielgallery, on 01/12/2023
The English Hedge
We don't have the Pacific when, and our wren never nests in houses, so it is the winter wren, Troglodytes hiemalis.
frankbeswick, on 01/12/2023
What is Search Engine Optimization in Digital Marketing
SEO directories are just the same a link farms with no authority and search now ignore directory submissions.
pateluday, on 01/11/2023
The English Hedge
Your sub-heading The Role of Hedges includes a reference to the tiny wren.
Tiny wren on this side of the (Atlantic) pond may refer to house wrens (Troglodytes aedon), Pacific wrens (T. pacificus) or winter wrens (T. hiemalis), depending upon ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/11/2023
Women’s Warm, Funky Cashmere Jackets and Coats for Winter
In particular, I like the three blue cashmere outerwear.
The eighth sentence under your subheading, Cashmere Wool, indicates that "The processing of the fleece used de-hairing methods in which the coarse hair is separated with the fine and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/11/2023
Guardian Angel Gifts for Christmas
The film Sundays at Tiffany's, from 2010, deals with a girl, Jane, and her imaginary friend, Michael. Michael somewhat functions as a guardian angel in the way that he celebrates good times with her and helps her problem-solve and survive the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/11/2023
Fairy Tales for Christmas
The fifth sentence under your subheading, Story Telling, indicates that "Every 20 miles apart, there is a twist in the language or the language has changed altogether."
Would this distance have been true anciently and modernly?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/11/2023
Starting a new garden
Pretty much what you have just said.You must remember that cacti are not native British, so everything we have 0of them comes from the United States
frankbeswick, on 01/11/2023
Philosophy for Gardeners: a review
You are wise and wonderful,Derdriu. You are managing your patch of woodland so rightly.
frankbeswick, on 01/11/2023