Formby Asparagus (also the name of the variety) is white at the base and green through the stem with a purple tinged tip. New asparagus crowns are grown from seed which is saved from the old plant. After the first year, the crowns are transplanted into a 20cm deep trench and a ridge 8cm high is piled up around...
I borrowed BioBank’s copy of “Poland” to try and resolve the mystery of its identity from a fragment I had taken – comprising fully intact leaves- and found myself keying out Saxifraga umbrosa (Pyrenean saxifrage) , or Saxifrage nivalis (Alpine saxifrage). I was really attracted to the latter because “Poland” refers to “the long wavy...
Objectives: Fifteen months after the closure of Landlife and National Wildflower centre in Knowsley, to raise awareness of the opportunity to build upon this charitable legacy, the wildflower fields and harvests and the projects, and a new future with Eden Project. To launch new partnerships which have the potential to build on the grass-roots nature...
The plants in the cracks of the pavements and brickwork begin to lose their fascination with the arrival of those early harbingers of summer –the Swifts (May 9th)- and thoughts of trips farther afield come centre stage. A trip to Ness Gardens, with friends, over the May Day Bank Holiday, reminded one that even...