Some bad photos of plants

This started as part of the blog on lime juice but is now one of two spin-offs. The lime juice alone was complicated enough without the ori...

I started this as part of the blogs about lime-juice and punch but it seemed a little out of place, so I am giving it a page for itself. ...

A "Lime-juicer".  The American-built clipper Fatherland , built 1854. Renamed Swiftsure and operated by the British compan...

Clerodendrum trichotomum More after the break.

I grew two plants of a green Tomatillo this year. There was no name for the variety on the Suttons website . More after the break

My Mum asked for a few pictures of the garden so I just popped out and took some wide shots. I will add some of the close-ups I have done in...

On the 1st of June I was walking along Brantingham Road where it meets Manchester Road in Chorlton, at about 5pm. I saw a young man point...

There was once a British King who presided over a prosperous time, ruling from the city of Camulodunum. He regularly defeated his neighbours...

I decided to update the picture in the background to take out the discontinuity between the repeated tiles. So I took a new photo of a pinst...

I have become tired of the poor quality and intermittent availability of oyster mushrooms in supermarkets in recent years. So I bought a...

My colourised version of the photo of the original reproduced at the end of this piece. Colours represent a mallard drake. A paper wa...

A Swarm of Golden Space Bees can't find Manchester because it is raining. or A terrestrial globe semée of bees volant, all prope...

Maravilla silvestre (wild marvel, botanically Calendula arvensis ) is very common and widespread in Andalusia. This small wild version of th...

Bufalaga marina ( Thymelaea hirsuta ) is a member of Thymelaeaceae, the same family as the popular fragrant garden shrub Daphne . I didn...

This little buttercup, the flor de san diego ( Ranunculus bullatus ), seems to be very resistant to being trodden on. It was growing in the ...

Arisarum vulgare is known by many names including dragontea menor, the little dracontium. The dragontea mayor or big dracontium is Dracuncu...

The Spanish plant Zarzaparrilla ( Smilax aspera ) is not the Sarsaparilla of commerce, which is Smilax ornata from the Americas. However th...

Olivilla ( Cneorum tricoccon ), the "little olive" sounds delightful but is unfortunately quite toxic. It has been used medicinall...

The species of Echium found in Britain are called Viper's Bugloss. Those in Spain are called viborera and viperina. In both countries t...

This post contains a few of the introduced ornamental members of the Solanaceae found around Nerja and a possible native. The large family S...