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GOING WILD ABOUT WILD BLUE BERRY JAM IN FINLAND

I have been in Finland for the last couple of weeks with my wife Hanna, a native of this beautiful tree filled land. Finland is the most forested country in the EU. Approximately 74% of the country is covered in forest. One gets the impression that even the biggest towns and cities are living areasContinue reading “GOING WILD ABOUT WILD BLUE BERRY JAM IN FINLAND”

Admired plant

This is Asarina scandens, much admired by students on the home study course at one of the regular garden visits to National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin in Dublin. It is a tender perennial herbaceous climbing plant. It always self seeds into the old stone walls at the bots where in trails downwards. It can growContinue reading “Admired plant”