Stories from the Manchester Museum Herbarium. Egypt at the Manchester Museum. Their small tomb chamber at Dra Abu el Naga, on the west bank of Thebes, was excavated by W. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Image courtesy of John Rylands Library.

Garden writer, author and editor. Martyn Cox is a prolific garden writer and author with a tiny, but plant packed garden in East London. Martyn writes a weekly column for The Mail on Sunday. And monthly for Saga Magazine.

Wednesday, 30 November 2016. Minus four or five most mornings, the frost never leaving the shadows of the day before being built upon the following night. Soil so hard as to turn aside the fork and spade as though they were made of rubber. I walk the hills and fields as the ground crunches beneath my feet. The natural cycles of the years weather and seasons are. To the smooth running of the. Monday, 27 June 2016.

In The Beginning Was The Plot. And The Plot Thickened! Adventures on a Lancashire Allotment and Miscellaneous Musings. I only strimmed some of the paths so as not to aggravate the tendernighties in my shoulder. if there is such a thing. I haz bought 375 metres of strimmer wire. This is because it makes it a.

April Breeds Lilacs out of Dead Land. Unseasonable, infeasible heat has supercharged the garden these past two weeks. Over the last week our white Persian lilac,. Pips it with ratio of about four what is that lovely geranium? January 8, 2011.

Battles against nature in a small town garden. Sunday, 26 May 2013. None on sale but also weaning. What can you say about Chelsea? Meant but frankly who cares when you have eyes only for an astonishing grouping of plants. Sumptuous planting by Roger Platt.

Notes on the garden, and other ramblings. Wednesday, 28 May 2014. Some Pictures From The Front. Some pictures of the front garden in the last couple of weeks. Must take some more as there is further growth explosion. Tuesday, 15 April 2014. Well, this is an impressive lapse in output, even by my standards! Im prompted to start blathering again by a flurry of activity over the last few days. First and formost, my dad built us this rather spiffy raised bed. Good innit? Tuesday, 4 February 2014.