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Garden notes 17, home and away, a further intermission

Posted on May 7, 2020 by jonathan trustram

… because my mind began to wander, and it’s hard to get back to the garden. This is really what I meant to do in the last Garden Notes, i.e. show some more plants which I’ve seen in the wild … Continue reading →

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garden notes 16, intermission with aubrieta

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Aubrieta on Profitis Ilias in the Taygetos mountains, Peloponnese, Greece, in April. This picture should be big! See if you can make it look bigger on your screen….   But maybe its picture postcard size is appropriate, it fits that lockdown … Continue reading →

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Garden notes 15, the corn cockle, aliens

Posted on April 29, 2020 by jonathan trustram

see also Garden notes number twelve; sex, pests, culture wars, paradise and narrow observation I looked again at a photo I put up on the bathroom wall – It’s the corn cockle growing in a field of corn, as you might … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number fourteen; swarming things, tulips

Posted on April 26, 2020 by jonathan trustram

For entertainment at my birthday party – I would have been eleven, I think – my father brought home from work a film projector, a little screen and several short educational films made by companies like ICI and BP. We … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number thirteen, the spider and the ant, (more narrow observation,) and some new flowers.

Posted on April 23, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Look what happened in ‘the weed from paradise’, (see number 12), the Welsh poppy. How much am I seeing that I ordinarily wouldn’t? I noticed the white spider inside a poppy, waiting. By the time I came back with my … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number twelve; sex, pests, culture wars (art v. nature), paradise and narrow observation

Posted on April 19, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Yesterday I browsed again – I much prefer that quiet bovine metaphor to that of the muscular (and possibly drowning) surfer – through Keith Thomas’s fascinating Man and the Natural World, thinking to illustrate, through an assembly of quotations, the … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number eleven, some more spring flowers

Posted on April 15, 2020 by jonathan trustram

I should record the date – April 15th. They’re coming thick and fast, literally. There seems to be a precise order, a rhythm to spring events which I could never recall afterwards or before. Spring confounds memory – is it … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number ten, the itch to intervene, a few lines from John Clare, Adam in Eden, Haberlea rhodopensis and DH Lawrence

Posted on April 12, 2020 by jonathan trustram

I’m remembering the radical ecologist (see Garden notes number three) and his airy contempt for gardeners. But also a few lines from John Clare: Where last years leaves and weeds decay / March violets are in blow I’d rake the … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number nine, Eryngium giganteum, honesty again, slugs

Posted on April 10, 2020 by jonathan trustram

Most of the honesty plants which will flower at this time next year have already appeared. I went looking for them in the garden so as to show them to you; there were more of them than I had realised, … Continue reading →

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Garden notes number eight, honesty, and an introduction to self-seeding biennials and annuals

Posted on April 7, 2020 by jonathan trustram

This is the end, in February. It comes just before the beginning, naturally. This is what you get for being honest. But I was going to say something about annuals and biennials. (Biennials are often just annuals with an intermission, … Continue reading →

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