
A Poinsettia is not just for Christmas
02.12.2014Top tips for keeping that much loved Christmas plant alive. We've tested a plant sensor and mixed it up with some good old gardening knowledge...
Top tips for keeping that much loved Christmas plant alive. We've tested a plant sensor and mixed it up with some good old gardening knowledge...
Founded by English gardener John Tebbs, The Garden Edit redraws the traditional boundaries associated with shopping and the garden by bringing together a modern collection of products that embody functionality, timelessness and beauty.
What an amazing gardening-video, published by "Nowness, for the culturally curious"... Enjoy.
The Zurich Succulent Plant Collection is one of the most impressive of its kind, covering more than 4750sqm and displaying over 6500 plants. We visited the collection and brought our good old 35mm camera.
by zoe | 15.05.2014 | fruit , trees , fruits | 0 comments | Rating: 1 votes
I can still remember the blackberry harvest in the south of England. It was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Lanes and lanes of hedgerows weighed down by ripe fruits. I would get off my bike and creep round the back of the bushes where I couldn’t be seen from the road, and then I would eat until the juices were dribbling down my chin and I was full to bursting point.
I’m sure my story isn’t uncommon. Although most people who do this are about 8. I was 22.
It’s not just in the countryside where you can benefit from free fruit. There is a surprising amount of fruit hidden amongst our towns and cities that simply goes to waste. In recognition of this, urban harvesting groups from Germany to the US are getting together to make community members aware of locally available food resources. Some groups harvest fruit for themselves, others are modern-day Robin Hoods who collect the fruit and distribute it to those who need it the most.
Urban harvesting has the potential to meet real need in the recession-hit UK, where about 3 million people are malnourished at any time, and where demand for foodbanks nearly tripled last year - 913,138 people were given emergency food in 2013-14. The good news is that there are already some great urban harvesting projects in existence, including:
It’s time to get out from behind the bushes, wash your hands of the blackberry juice and start redistributing our cities’ fruity wealth to those who need it most.
Photo credit: botterli / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree - Joyce Kilmer (1913)
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