Category: Eco

Her view with our ‘borrowed’ garden (Japanese: shakkei; Chinese: jièjǐng)

28/05/2023

The maples are exhibitionists in autumn

23/05/2023

Many gardens are deserts of lawn, packed with herbicides and pesticides

17/05/2023

Lichens and mosses are important for life

17/05/2023

The first Iris to bloom splashes colour in the sombre garden of the Seven Sages.

28/09/2021

With global warming, such diseases will become more prevalent.

04/04/2019

Robert Pogue Harrison wrote in Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition: ‘For millennia and throughout world cultures, our predecessors conceived of human happiness in its perfected state as a

04/03/2018

We easily forget that insects are essential to agriculture, ecosystems and healthy biodiversity.

01/12/2017

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer. . .

09/11/2016

The Great Australian Dream of a quarter-acre suburban detached house is ‘unjust’ and needs to be challenged . . .

04/10/2016