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• Weird wide illusory world of hort

  1. Bizarre plant of the month is, believe it or not a citrus - the buddha's hand citron ( Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis ), native to China. There isn't much flesh on the fingers, but the fruits are harvested for their aromatic zest, or candied. 2. What if money really did grow on trees ? Australian...

  Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 07-26-2010

• Weird wide World Cup of hort

  See what I've done with the title there? Made it topical. The search engines are bound to pick it up. 1. Appropriately a South African one first, and next in our weird plants theme is the umbrella thorn tree ( Acacia tortilis ) - widespread (and wide-spreading) trees, but did you know they emit chemical...

  Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 06-08-2010

• Grow-your-own for fun and profit, hen names, cubist tulips

  1. It's often said that the boom in grow-your-own is in some way down to the recession - but there are a hundred better ways of cutting your household bills than swapping supermarket produce for a few home-grown strawbs and carrots. Nevertheless, further to Jack's post , I'm going to see...

  Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 04-30-2010

• why your next piece of glasshouse kit is unlikely to be British

  Wandering around Amsterdam's Horti Fair , which closes today, can be inspiring, but also a little disheartening. Even in a tough year it is awash with bright young things proudly displaying solutions to what most of us hadn't even realised were problems. There was a Latvian firm using nanotechnology...

  Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 10-17-2008

• Where is a bug to roam?

  First port of call on my current trip to Holland was a grower located in a polder , or reclaimed land below sea level, which was drained in the 1960s. The resulting landscape is striking for being entirely man-made - every tree from a nursery, every watercourse drawn by ruler and compass. But in Holland...

  Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 09-17-2008

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