recycling in-situ: paper and cardboard become soil

recycling in-situ: paper and cardboard become soil

We ran out of compost, cash and patience at about the same time. But NOT out of ambition...

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Planter box with future soil and impatient brugmansia plant

Planter box with future soil and impatient brugmansia plant

Being experimental and impatient, we planted directly into the wet paper, figuring enough nutrients...

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the paper is closely packed, edges upwards

the paper is closely packed, edges upwards

Here you can see the way cardboard sheets and used paper were stacked to allow maximum moisture...

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Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

My very good friend Francesca on her birthday party this October. Fra is the sun's gift to my world...

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Uploaded on Jan 15, 2010

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Hort-sicles!

Hort-sicles!

Climate Chaos. A fifty-year record "cold snap" parked itself over Ireland and Europe for...

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unidentified phalenopsis

unidentified phalenopsis

One of the frustrations of this era is the many mass produced orchids being sold which don't bother...

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Uploaded on Aug 19, 2008

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unidentified vandaceous

unidentified vandaceous

Another beauty, very satisfying, but sold with the idea that nobody would be keeping it beyond...

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Uploaded on Aug 19, 2008

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cotula hispidula

cotula hispidula

another treasure, highlighted by a light rain

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Uploaded on Aug 18, 2008

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saxifraga longifolia

saxifraga longifolia

To see it, is to lust for it................

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Georgia O'Keeffe Tribute

Georgia O'Keeffe Tribute

Well, OK, the Sedum palmeri is Mexican, but the sheep skull is very much from the Irish bogs. Still,...

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Uploaded on Aug 18, 2008

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still stalking....

still stalking....

Another shot of the illusive asteridesign-er caught stalking very small animals in very tall grass. Was he hungry?

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logo TEPUI

logo TEPUI

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Best of friends

Best of friends

David and I in Sligo, morning after a great wedding party and a night in a hostel having possibly the worst feng shui on earth.

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Red red red rubus

Red red red rubus

The Cultivate building framed by an unidentified rubus species, supposedly from Szechuan....

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Dendrobium nobile establishing itself

Dendrobium nobile establishing itself

I know, I know. It's not possible, but here we have a Dendrobium nobile hybrid after it's 3rd...

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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2008

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Wall cactus

Wall cactus

At the botanical gardens in Geneva Switzerland, a long planted wall houses a wide variety of wall plants, including several cactus species.

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catching the light? stalking the stalker...

catching the light? stalking the stalker...

A rare photo of a rarer photographer. I caught Asteridesign in the act near the Lake in Geneve as he...

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Hot colours on a cool island

Hot colours on a cool island

One of the endless series of unintended effects in my gardens. Here the original rose is clambering...

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