Some bad photos of plants

Borage flowers photographed on 19/10/2019. It looks like I have been using my Fuji FinePix F770EXR camera for over 6 years, I just di...

Walking down Demesne Road by Alex(andra) Park in Moss Side I noticed that several of the puddles were remarkably frothy. It has been ver...

Yesterday afternoon I noticed a Red Admiral butterfly on the flowers of my kusagi tree . Known to entomologists as Vanessa atalant...

Manchester Council plants a strange mixture of street trees with quite a variety of species. I would prefer that they planted native trees t...

I have been watching quite a few of the videos uploaded to Youtube by the excellent Mancunian amateur local historian and urban explorer Mar...

I am putting together some articles about plants that have provided substances called Dragon's Blood. I aim to write four separate a...

I will be putting up a full article about the dragon-trees Dracaena or Draco (Asparagaceae) in a few months time. While researching that, ...

Plectranthus ernstii One of the easiest houseplants I have grown. Covered in masses of flowers from May until December.  Leaves mildly...

I managed to identify this moth instantly by searching in Google Images for "moth uk maroon two spots". It seems to be the ...

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...