A remarkably ancient plants species fossil records indicate that the Magnoliacea family might be as much as 100 million years old. Unsurprisingly the plants are often beetle pollinated in their native homelands, Asia and the America’s. Introduced to Europe before the mid 1800’s the family was named named by Linnaeus after the re known…
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Green stuff
Well we have all been waiting for the spring to arrive and FINALLY after weeks of freezing cold, miserable and not so miserable days it finally arrive with a whoosh this week. To be frank I was beginning to despair, clucking over recalcitrant seeds lurking under their blanket of compost refusing to poke out in…
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