HeyJaredGROW
Gardens, plants, environmental justice, and general adventures in horticulture
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On roses (opens the original)
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Skinny jeans were still in fashion when I started gardening. I’d rejected them for years after they came into style - stubbornly clinging to my comfy, soggy-hemmed bootcuts until the shops literally stopped selling them. By 2020, I was loyally committed. I couldn’t imagine them ever going out of style. My beloved stretchy maternity jeans made me look like an ever-expanding human lollipop as the months wore on, and I was delighted. I emerged from the pandemic a baby gardener with a baby in my arm
September lights (opens the original)
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If you could only judge a society based on what’s on supermarket shelves you’d assume that September signals hibernation. It’s as if all anyone wants to do is stock up on plastic pumpkins, light a sickly cinnamon candle and count down the days until Christmas. Bedding aside, garden centres are more concerned with clearing their summer stock to make way for acres of festive tat than helping anyone find decent autumn plants. This pattern is reflected in garden shows, and media coverage of them. Su
Second spring (opens the original)
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Parched (opens the original)
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Being a gardener feels, at the moment, like being a plant paramedic. There is an awful lot of first aid - mainly administering emergency hydration to the base of parched hydrangeas. My own garden is being kept alive thanks to a constantly dribbling hose being left on the thirstiest looking plants1. There is also a bit of first aid for the actual equipment. I have a very elderly client whose carer had managed to dig out the hosepipe but couldn’t get to grips with reconnecting all the bits that ha
On turning into Barcelona (opens the original)
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London, they say, is about to become Barcelona. By 2050 climate change will have tipped the nation’s capital into a Gaudi-filled tapas haven complete with beach, absinthe bars and fabulous fountains. Only joking, it will still be full of the usual British junk and most likely still not have air con in the underground, but in the summer it will be 40C. And all the trees will have died. Climate change is quite clearly here, but I am no longer sure what to do with this information. If I read the <a
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