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kjegreen
May 233 min read
Heliotropism
Sunflowers turn their heads to follow the sun. One of the most striking sights in the countryside is a field of yellow sunflowers whose...
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kjegreen
May 201 min read
It's World Bee Day
BBC Radio 4 Start the Week "Bees - Culture and Survival" Start the Week is one of my favourite podcasts... the topics are so varied and...
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kjegreen
Feb 214 min read
The Language of Flowers, Neanderthals and Texas
When flowers take on a meaning, to me at least it can seem sentimental and Victorian. I suppose the Victorians were a bit mealy-mouthed...
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kjegreen
Feb 174 min read
"God's Apology for February"
The February flower is the Violet. Right on cue, this week I saw the first of my violets flowering in my front porch. Barbara Johnson...
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kjegreen
Feb 113 min read
What's in A Name?
While I was looking into Garnets and Granite it was interesting to think about the many colours of rocks and gemstones and how the image...
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kjegreen
Feb 13 min read
Enchanted Rocks, Prehistoric Plants and Exfoliation
One of my first outings of 2024 was to visit Enchanted Rock, a famous geological feature of the Texas Hill Country. It is a massive dome...
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kjegreen
Jan 294 min read
Seed Sorting
While considering garnets and pomegranates, and how the names are derived from the Latin granatus, it made me think about the seeds we...
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kjegreen
Jan 274 min read
Winter Pomegranates
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,...
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kjegreen
Jan 272 min read
Grains, Pomegranates, Carbuncles and Ferrets
Sometimes knowing the origin of a word changes how you feel about it (could this be relevant to our interactions with humans as well as...
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kjegreen
Jan 253 min read
if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer, Gie her a Haggis!
The Scots are a funny people… Tonight is Burns Night where Scots all over the world (and other enlightened people) celebrate the life of...
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kjegreen
Jan 222 min read
To Plant Gems of Inspiration - the Garnet
Garnets are a beautiful symbol for the start of a New Year. A commitment to new growth.
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