David Chalmers Alesworth

“The Home Front” travelling horticultural experiments

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All this has to become work too…….

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Weddelia and Washingtonia in the front garden, October 2009.

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Luca, from our room to the Olive orchard.

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The Olive grove at alta Luca, Tuscan hills.

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

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

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

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Thuja orinetalis From near Camp Darby, Tuscany.

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More unripe Ginko nuts

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The summer’s seed gleanings

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

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Congolese Avocado’s

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

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Tuscan Olive cuttings

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Tuscan olive cuttings

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Pots at Lahore nursery.