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Sunflowers turn their heads to follow the sun. One of the most striking sights in the countryside is a field of yellow sunflowers whose...

BBC Radio 4 Start the Week "Bees - Culture and Survival" Start the Week is one of my favourite podcasts... the topics are so varied and...

When flowers take on a meaning, to me at least it can seem sentimental and Victorian. I suppose the Victorians were a bit mealy-mouthed...

The February flower is the Violet. Right on cue, this week I saw the first of my violets flowering in my front porch. Barbara Johnson...

While I was looking into Garnets and Granite it was interesting to think about the many colours of rocks and gemstones and how the image...

One of my first outings of 2024 was to visit Enchanted Rock, a famous geological feature of the Texas Hill Country. It is a massive dome...

While considering garnets and pomegranates, and how the names are derived from the Latin granatus, it made me think about the seeds we...

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,...

Sometimes knowing the origin of a word changes how you feel about it (could this be relevant to our interactions with humans as well as...

The Scots are a funny people… Tonight is Burns Night where Scots all over the world (and other enlightened people) celebrate the life of...

Garnets are a beautiful symbol for the start of a New Year. A commitment to new growth.