According to a Canadian paper in the science publication “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA” trees have a molecular memory of how they were raised in a nursery which they carry with them even when transplanted hundreds of kilometres away. Researchers say this “nursery effect” might explain a tree’s response to [...]

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I was watching the Sir David Attenborough series the other night called “Life”. This episode was devoted to the private life of plants, how they survive, how they interact with animals and so on. There were a number of interesting analogies to the human condition and I will probably write about others in coming posts. [...]

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A recent episode of the “Better Homes and Gardens” lifestyle show featured a story on the world’s biggest garden show at Hampton Court in England. Whilst there were lots of interesting aspects to the report, the one that caught my eye was a piece on upside down planter pots. They can be hung from the [...]

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It seems I’m on a pea theme at the moment. I’m pretty confident that most people reading this blog post will have heard of “Pareto’s principle” also known as the 80/20 rule or the law of the vital few. But did you know that Vilfredo Pareto was an engineer, a mathematician . . . and [...]

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