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| 07:12 UK time, Saturday, 19 March 2011
In the news...
Ever picked a few daffs for the kitchen windowsill on the way home? You could be risking a criminal record.
The parents of two little girls caught picking daffodils in their local park in Poole, Dorset, were given a police warning for damaging council property this week. Disproportionate policing - or ? The children were, after all, picking bunches of 70-80 daffodils: I'd have trouble finding that many in my garden.
The Guardian provides a : not only parks, but also roundabouts, verges, community gardens and nature reserves are all officially off-limits for flower-pickers.
Happy birthday to the which is ten years old this week. It seems just yesterday that those iconic biomes transformed an unpromising Cornish china clay quarry into the world's largest glasshouse rainforest.
Thirteen million visitors later, is also a beacon for sustainability, its latest self-sufficiency project a geothermal power plant. Charismatic founder Sir Tim Smit, never one to pull his punches, puts Britain's failure to follow Eden's example down to . Don't hold back, Sir Tim: tell us what you really think.
Elsewhere on the web...
It just gets better: this week it was a personal tour of Monty Don's Jewel Garden, planted with perennials chosen for their bright, vibrant colours and with more than a passing nod to Monty's . The verdict on the new-look Gardeners' World has been, on the whole, positive: Jason found it ; while there's something close to a 50:50 split on the messageboards between those who think Monty is a welcome breath of fresh air, and those campaigning for the return of Toby and Alys.
It's all prompted Vicky Frost at the Guardian to wonder ?. What do you think? Alys Fowler's refreshing hippy chick approach for The Edible Garden? Carol Klein's simple delight in her own garden earlier this year? Or big diggers and Matthew Wilson in ?
A real treat this week has been Tim Richardson's fascinating . Particularly wonderful is the British Library's publication of , transporting you straight back to the 17th century complete with handwritten notes.
Out and about...
The country's first show dedicated to fruit and veg (and chickens, bees, goats and pigs) is up and running. It's been a long time coming () but already looks set to become a firm fixture in the calendar.
Friday at the Edible Garden Show
Already we've had Diarmuid Gavin, a lot of funny costumes (it was yesterday) and a recording of Gardeners' Question Time from the show; who knows what this weekend will bring. Get yourself down to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire this weekend and indulge yourself in a positive banquet of home-grown produce.
In case you can't get to Warwickshire, there are also special Grow Your Own weekends coming up at no fewer than three RHS gardens around the country. has cookery demonstrations, is offering guided walks of their lovely walled vegetable garden and talks by legendary veg grower , and is inviting kids to take up their Brussels Sprout challenge.
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