Is this the first time I’ve ever blogged The Sun newspaper? It may be the last. But having gone down to Wakehurst Place, Kew’s country garden, at the weekend to cut our own Christmas tree, this rather odd story – The Sun Online – News: Christmas tree’s a fir cop, guv – caught my eye. I think it must have been a quiet news day!
Hardly the Blooming miracle they claim it to be, but it’s been at least a few weeks since someone, somewhere in the world had a titan arum in flower. This time it’s Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens’ turn and their justified claim to fame is that they have managed to get two to flower within days of each other.
Sea levels are rising to alarming levels, species are threatened with extinction, but if you read the latest news stories it’s getting even worse:
But now the final, devastating piece of news….
And all this because of global warming. It’s worse than I thought.
The BBC seems very proud to reveal that blackberries grow on plants and not in plastic punnets. Their BBC Audio slideshow: Food from the wild is portrayed as being something that is a great revelation of a dying past-time.
Maybe it’s sitting in the concrete jungle that is White City that does it.
Methinks they should get out more.
And there was I planting cabbages and sowing carrots and radishes down on the allotment this weekend, when it seems I should really be trying my hand at something altogether more exotic. In amongst the cherry and plum trees, my next planting could well be an avocado if this article on the BBC news site is to be believed. I do have some tasty salad leaves to go with it, and maybe I could pull a nice big salmon out of the River Brent? OK, so that’s getting a bit too hopeful, but perhaps I could at least pull a shopping trolley out from the murky depths, and then I’d have something to put the packet in the next time I go to Sainsburys!
Nice to see such a high profile source as the Guardian (OK, so it’s the East London and West Essex flavour of the same name) recognising the value of allotments.
I for one can vouch that I have never seen so many types of snail and slug as there were yesterday when I went to get some rhubarb for the evening meal.