"The Home Front" travelling horticultural experiments

All this has to become work too.......


Weddelia and Washingtonia in the front garden, October 2009.


Luca, from our room to the Olive orchard.


The Olive grove at alta Luca, Tuscan hills.



Unripe Ginko Biloba Seeds from near Cuvrystrasse, Berlin.
Prior to planting. None have sprouted in three months.


The vegetable garden and wormery on my return from Europe.
Almost everything is dead.


How the Tuscan Olive cuttings were at the begining, August 2009.
-three months later only one is still green.






Thuja orinetalis From near Camp Darby, Tuscany.


More unripe Ginko nuts


The summer's seed gleanings


Stop Camp Darby.
Outside Pisa Botanical Garden.
Camp Darby is a 2500 acre US munitions dump in the Tuscan countryside between Luca and Pisa.



Congolese Avocado's



Cat and slug proofing the Ruccola seedlings, moth balls and slug-bait.


Tuscan Olive cuttings

Tuscan olive cuttings


Pots at Lahore nursery.