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Name: Joshua Ellison
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Good enough to eat

We are all familiar with vegetable flowers in the form of Cauliflower, Broccoli and Artichokes, but other, more ornamental flowers have been used in the cuisine of cultures all over the world for thousands of years. The Romans were keen on them, as were the ancient Chinese, and European medieval writings talk about feasts of […]

Corporate flora and the lumberjacks of fortune

Fellow horticulturalists, congratulations are in order. Caroline Spelman, the environmental secretary for the House of Commons last week released an apology to members of parliament. The government was considering the long lease to timber companies of up 2,500 square km of British woodland. While the national trust promised to protect the most sensitive areas of […]

Schools Out!!

Background Staff from the school had seen our show garden, “Sustainability Can Be Sexy”, at the Hampton Court Flower Show in 2008 and had been impressed by many of its features. They had an unused lawn area next to one of their playgrounds that they wanted to turn into an exciting learning space for the […]

S.O.D. OFF!

S.O.D, or Sudden Oak Death, caused by the fungus Phytophthora, filled some headlines recently due to the mass de-forestation it has triggered. In an effort to contain the disease that afflicts the common Oak with bleeding cankers and destroys the trunk foundation of Magnolia and Rhododendron alike, Somerset council is also having to fell thousands […]