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Maria Mac
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by Maria Mac » May 9th, 2008, 11:09 am
Latest post of the previous page:
A couple of pics taken off the NW coast of Shetland.

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by Maria Mac » May 9th, 2008, 11:11 am
And this one was taken outside the Lerwick museum where the plants in the flowerbeds are surrounded by thousands of tiny fragments of clear and coloured glass. Weird.

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by Alan C. » May 9th, 2008, 2:09 pm
Maria
where the plants in the flowerbeds are surrounded by thousands of tiny fragments of clear and coloured glass. Weird.
That's what we do with the re-cycled glass Maria, it's all done here so the glass doesn't leave the Island.
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by Lifelinking » May 9th, 2008, 6:40 pm
Apart from being pretty, does it keep the weeds down?
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by Alan C. » May 9th, 2008, 7:56 pm
Sorry I should have elaborated more in my last post.
When we do these "formal" plantings (I've been involved in 8 quite large ones in Lerwick) first we cover the ground with a black porous membrane, then cut slits (X) where the plants are to go, then plant the shrubs through the slits and cover the black membrane with the glass beads.
The black membrane stops any weeds from growing and also keeps moisture in the soil.
If you put the glass directly onto the soil, it would quickly get washed down below the surface by the rain.
Maria if you noticed the plantings at the front of the clickimin and at the front of the Isleburgh, they are done the same way.
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by Lifelinking » May 9th, 2008, 8:02 pm
I think it looks good Alan. Better than grinding it down and putting it in your sarnies.

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by Alan H » May 9th, 2008, 9:10 pm
Lifelinking wrote:Apart from being pretty, does it keep the weeds down?
The other Alan is far better qualified to answer that, but I've used bark in a similar way in the past [---][/---] I think it does help keep weeds down and any weeds that do grow are far more easily pulled out.
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by Alan C. » May 9th, 2008, 11:01 pm
Alan H
but I've used bark in a similar way in the past
Ah yes, bark is the product of choice "doon sooth" where there are plenty of trees, up here there aren't many trees but LOTS of empty beer/wine bottles

You have to use the resources that are available.
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by Alan H » May 9th, 2008, 11:10 pm
Alan Henness
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
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by Alan C. » May 21st, 2008, 7:18 pm
Yay! The Shetland croft garden got gold at Chelsea.

The facade of the croft and the driftwood fence were taken brick by brick and timber by timber from here in Shetland.
The whole thing is now for sale on e-bay.
Full story
here.
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by Lifelinking » May 25th, 2008, 7:31 pm
Yay! The Shetland croft garden got gold at Chelsea.
how cool!
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by Lifelinking » June 8th, 2008, 4:36 pm
The other week my wife snapped this rascal thieving from one of our bird feeders

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by DougS » June 11th, 2008, 11:04 am
This was taken by a Dutch friend who took it by holding his camera - in watertight casing, obviously - underwater. The toads promptly tried to hump the camera and his hand! Any resemblance to banned members God and Chris is probably coincidental.
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by Maria Mac » June 16th, 2008, 6:36 pm
OK, since you've decided to lower the tone...here are a couple of bears at it in Stockholm last year.
I might as well post the lemurs while I'm at it.

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by Lifelinking » June 22nd, 2008, 3:54 pm
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by Alan H » June 23rd, 2008, 12:14 am
Utterly amazing!
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by Alan C. » July 6th, 2008, 2:33 pm
The 4 Oz organic strawberry I've just picked

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by Fia » July 6th, 2008, 9:46 pm
The volcano pictures are astounding. You can see how people could see such an event as being smitten by god's hand - if you weren't too engrossed in running very fast in the opposite direction
And I'm mightily impressed with Alan's strawberry. Did it taste as good as it looked?
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by Alan H » July 6th, 2008, 11:10 pm
Fia wrote:And I'm mightily impressed with Alan's strawberry. Did it taste as good as it looked?
...and how was the quail's egg?

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by Alan C. » July 7th, 2008, 1:26 pm
Fia
And I'm mightily impressed with Alan's strawberry. Did it taste as good as it looked?
This morning there was a mini bus from the care centre visiting the charity shop next door, I sliced up the monster strawberry and gave all the old dears a piece, they said it was excellent, and I sold 6 boxes
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..and how was the quail's egg?

I'll have you know, that was a LARGE free range chukleberry fruit from my neighbor.
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by Lifelinking » July 7th, 2008, 7:30 pm
I sliced up the monster strawberry and gave all the old dears a piece, they said it was excellent, and I sold 6 boxes
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