Grow your own oak tree #17 The cause of the pressure that cracked the outer shell was the taproot emerging from between the two halves of the acorn. You can now see the taproot emerging 🤗

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Last week on the way home from speaking engagements up country, I stopped into Bernard Carey in Clare, who grows trees from native Irish seed. Like a kid let loose in a sweet shop, this was the car all the way back to Beara, fully loaded with aspen, pine, arbutus and yew. They all belong here!

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It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve found blooming in the last week from across Britain & Ireland! ☺️🌿🌸

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Housing developers constantly saying their developments will actually increase biodiversity because they’ll pop some trees in know for a fact those trees will be murdered for SUV parking within a few years.

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The insects have gone

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