Gardens
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Second week of May, gardening
Many gardens are deserts of lawn, packed with herbicides and pesticides
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Forest and garden, 27 Sept, a first day
The first Iris to bloom splashes colour in the sombre garden of the Seven Sages.
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An ecological garden
Robert Pogue Harrison wrote in Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition: 'For millennia and throughout world cultures, our predecessors conceived…
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Insect populations are declining dramatically
We easily forget that insects are essential to agriculture, ecosystems and healthy biodiversity.
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To read or retire or get angry
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer. . .
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Our small Asian garden
The Great Australian Dream of a quarter-acre suburban detached house is ‘unjust’ and needs to be challenged . . .
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