 I have been slowly adding to it and starting to fill out the beds, although that obviously takes some considerable time.
I made two trips over the summer which were kind of inspirational.
One was to Grow London, a new event held in Hampstead which I think is run by the same people who organise the Affordable Art Fair. Essentially it was a large exhibition with sellers of plants, garden furniture, landscape gardeners and many more.
They made it really easy by having a free shuttle service from the tube station.
They had some quirkier products like these Seed Bombs.
And some ideas to steal like a plant stand made from an old painted stepladder – something to look out for eBay and try at home.
Plenty of other ideas…
And I did buy. And I’d go again.
The other was a trip to the Chelsea Physic Garden. It was founded in 1673 and is still arranged as a botanical garden. I went with my parents and it’s a great summer afternoon out and a really interesting insight into our changing relationship with plants not to mention the fact that it’s really very beautiful (and the cakes in the restaurant aren’t bad too).
3 thoughts on “Summer Gardening”
I love the seed bom idea.
Wow the lemons look fantastic!
Love the seed bomb ideasThe new MacBook hasn't exactly wowed early reviewers with its performance capabilities, but I think the laptop is fundamentally designed to appeal to a different class of user than Apple currently caters to with its MacBook Air and the Retina MacBook Pro.
Having said that, the company is likely going to continue to make powerful laptops that appeal to its current customer base. So when Cook says that the MacBook is the future of the notebook, what does he mean?
I'm certain the Force Touch trackpad will be in the next version of the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro.
The MacBook's wacky and magical new Force Touch trackpad has already begun to spread across the rest of Apple's laptop line. It's already on the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and I'm certain the new trackpad will show up in the next version of the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro when it gets an update.
I'd love to see the new keyboard make it into the next 15-inch MacBook Pro, too: Using the new MacBook's keyboard is an exercise in retraining muscle memory, in part because it's a more compact case design (the keys are closer together than they are on any other MacBook). Combine that slick design with the full-sized spread of a 15-inch laptop, and you'd have a powerful combination that would enable Apple to make the Retina MacBook Pro even more slender than it is now.
New Mac customers simply assume that they'll be able to go gold, silver, or space gray.
One of the most remarkable things about the new MacBook is just how thin and light it is. It's substantially thinner than the MacBook Air, and not all that much thicker than a full-sized iPad. Obviously there are physical constraints engineers have to deal with based on the size of the display, but it wouldn't surprise me to see future MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs sport similarly thin designs, especially as Apple spreads USB-C throughout the product line — which seems rather inevitable.
I additionally look forward to the continued evolution of the MacBook itself. It's the first Mac to sport Intel's Core M processor: a lower-power, smaller microprocessor compared to the circuitry you might find in other Mac laptops. It's one of the reasons Apple was able top make the new MacBook as tiny as it is, and without a fan to boot.
The Core M doesn't offer the same performance as the Core i5 processors found in other Mac laptop models, but Apple has total control over hardware and operating system software, which enables them to get performance out of the system that you simply won't find in other computers that use this same processor type.
It also wouldn't surprise me at all to see Apple add different case colors to the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air line going forward. Before you dismiss this as an unnecessary complication, consider this: Almost every time I sell a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro in the store I work in, customers ask me what colors are available. New Mac customers — especially those who are buying Macs for the first time — simply assume that they'll be able to go gold, silver, or space gray, like they can with the phone.
The 11-inch MacBook Air seems like the odd man out at the moment.
The real question I have is in regards to the future of the 11-inch MacBook Air. The 11-inch MacBook Air seems like the odd man out at the moment: It gives Apple a laptop that retains for less than a grand, but it does so without differentiating performance between it and the 13-inch MacBook Air model, save for the 13-inch's display. Unfortunately, the emphasis on small size and light weight puts it in competition with the new MacBook.
For now, anyway, customers more concerned about price will continue to get the MacBook Air, so it'll be interesting to see what Apple does to differentiate the low-end MacBook Air going forward.
What innovations are you looking forward to in the Mac laptop line? What are you using now, and are you eyeing an upgrade this year? Let me know what you think in the comments.
Well... i don't know alot about the real amount of real time strategy games out there but for me it feels like there are VERY few good ones in the "old school" style of getting your resources and building units like old SC, WC and AoE. 

This one is defnitly one of the few and i enjoyed it ALOT. I also bought the expansion and i don't regret it. I'm no SC fanboy and haven't really played SC I but i really loved this game and played the shit ouf ot it. 

If you enjoy playing singleplayer campaign in a good old RTS game i think you can't really do anything wrong with this title.

The multiplayer is well....i guess way different. Havent played it in a long time but expect to meet players way better than you as long as you have not much time to learn alot about all the classes and units and metas and cards and stuff.

But i guess for 20 bucks its defnitly worth it even only for the singleplayer!The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) air monitoring through June 10, 2010, presumably found air quality levels were “normal” on the Gulf coastline. Of course this is the same EPA whose former director, Todd Christy, boldly stated that the post 911 air was fit to breathe. Christy’s 911 comments have been removed from the EPA website but can be cross-referenced in the Guardian. The EPA’s provably wrong declaration doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the agency’s ability to fix the current Gulf crisis.
Obama’s personal point man on the spill, Thad Allen, stated “the well no longer posed any threat to the Gulf. Crews will begin the last few remaining operations needed to abandon the well this week.” Thad Allen’s statement followed Obama’s declaration in which he boldly proclaimed that the Gulf is safe and “open for business” [5, 6]. Officials from both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the EPA echoed Obama’s safety claims.
The interconnections between the major media and BP’s Gulf Coast partners will prevent the public from ever hearing the human side of this tragedy. Below are a few examples of what you will not see or read in the corporate controlled media.
Twenty two year old PaulDoomm is paralyzed, has severe brain lesions and had to be placed in a medically induced coma to save his life. After swimming in the Gulf and eating seafood, before he was to head off to Marine Corps boot camp, he fell gravely ill. His fourteen year old brother is also now ill with a severe skin condition. Doomm’s parents are now ill and unable to work. Paul Doomm faces the real prospect of never leaving his wheel chair. As was the case with Gulf War Syndrome, the Doomm family case begs the question; can dispersant poisoning be transmitted through casual contact?
Denise Rednour was working as an animal rescuer, and took photos as the oil arrived on the beach at Long Beach, Mississippi. Within a month, she suffered from blurred vision, bleeding, and lung infections. She also believed the bulk of the exposure came from inhalation of the Corexit in the air, and compared the effects to what workers in the 9/11 World Trade Centers’ bombing first responders went through.
In my June 12, 2011 radio interview with Kindra Arnesen, she recounted a time when she had six children in her home and all six were experiencing symptoms ranging from sudden onset upper respiratory illness, hair falling out, chest pains and severe skin lesions.
Admittedly, these three cases are anecdotal in nature, but the medical evidence clearly supports the fact that anyone who lives, or visits the Gulf, is at risk.
Kim Anderson’s Oregon State University (OSU) researchers, from the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, began a test-retest comparative analysis for the carcinogenic contaminant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and its biodegradable partner, OPAHs, which appears after the application of corexit and subsequent exposure to ultraviolet rays. Stunningly, the OSU researchers found a 40 fold increase in these carcinogenic compounds in the comparative test-retest period. The OSU findings replicate the