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Silphium Rediscovered
Mediterranean plants are suitable for low fertility soils. Some plants are adaptable, such as wheat, which grows well in the Mediteranean region.
frankbeswick, on 09/27/2024

Dark Gold: Garden Compost
No. They are both useful.
frankbeswick, on 09/27/2024

Forty One Years, One Walk
I doubt it. Of my three sons the eldest has artistic talent , the second is an excellent journalist, but has a sales job that sucks up his time, and the third is a civil servant who is so good at writing reports that he has a training role ...
frankbeswick, on 09/27/2024

A Colorful Journey: Comparing and Contrasting Mexican Folk Art With Polish Folk Art
Your product line of pillowed Mexican and Polish folk-art colors and designs appeals to me.
Are the designs just available as comfortable pillows and frame-able art or are there bedspreads, curtains and tapestries?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/26/2024

Are Border Collies Really the Smartest Dog Breed?
Your conclusion that "Whether it's a Border Collie, a Poodle, a Golden Retriever, or a mixed breed from the local rescue shelter, each dog has its own unique way of being absolutely brilliant." appeals to me.
Have you seen the 2018 film Alpha?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/26/2024

Rosewell: Early Georgian Architecture in Gloucester County, Virginia
Perhaps the roof telescope corner acts as most symbolic of what could have been had the Rosewell decline not happened.
Some 18th-century houses had rooftop gardens even as some others had telescope corners and still others had both.
Might it ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/26/2024

Exploring Traditional Japanese Tapestry Landscape Art: A Window into Nature’s Serenity
Your product line presents lovely nishiki brocaded functionally and ornamentally.
Nishiki tapestries perhaps, as with European tapestries, protected house beds, doors and walls.
Would there be such a line along with the above-featured products?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/26/2024

Forty One Years, One Walk
Icelandic copyright lawyer, copyright-law university professor, fictionist and poet Ragnar Jónasson recently had an honorable mention for his poem Segðu mér eitthvað fallegt ("Tell me something beautiful") from the annual poetry competition ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/26/2024

Silphium Rediscovered
Thank you for all your comments, in answer to my (and others' ;-D) previous observations and questions.
May we go 18 comment boxes down, to the date Oct. 2, 2022?
Your answer mentions that "As for soil,as it is in the Apiaceae it copes with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/26/2024

Dark Gold: Garden Compost
Thank you for your comments below, on Jun 17, 2022, in answer to my previous same-day observation and question and on Jun 24, 2022, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question.
Are compost tea and worm liquid competitive ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/26/2024

Czech Republic Comfort Food Recipe: Fried Carp With Potato Salad
The above-mentioned fried carp with potato salad goes well with my other family Czech comfort-food recipes, for a multi-course special meal.
For example, chestnut cake with chocolate whipped cream frosting goes aesthetically and appetizingly ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/25/2024

Italian Bread With Plum Tomatoes: The Joy of Bruschetta
Thank you for your comment below, on Jul 27, 2018, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Fresh bruschetta always acts as the critical ingredient in basil-and-tomato bruschetta.
It also acts aesthetically and appetizingly with the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/25/2024

The Paranormal
The mediavals distinguished preternatural and supernatural events, though moderns lump them both in the supernatrial category. Jesus, as a divine being, worked supernatural happenings a mystic who has learned to levitate works a preternatural ...
frankbeswick, on 09/25/2024

Interstellar: Science Fiction Film Review
The film Intertellar cooperates with a filmed prequel and a filmed sequel.
Is either in the works?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/25/2024

Rosewell: Early Georgian Architecture in Gloucester County, Virginia
It always disappoints me, in the answer below, on Sep 24, 2016 by Jim Greaves, five comment boxes down, about Rosewell bricks, walls and window-arch keystones experiencing ill-gotten exits.
Is there any information about the perhaps private, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/25/2024