HeyJaredThe Thing About Plants
A celebration of plants and life - joining the dots between plants gardens, art, design, literature, science, food, farming and more. Written by award-winning garden designer Lottie Delamain.
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Cork, curry leaves and counting down the days (opens the original)
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Quercus suber, the species of tree that provides stoppers for all those bottles, is a special one to me. Twelve years ago some time this week (numbers have never been my forte) we got married amidst a forest of them, high in the Sierra de Aracena in Spain. Alongside cork oaks, there were plenty of other much-loved Spanish treats born of plants that I love with equal intensity – gazpacho, sherry, ajo blanco, and the best Bloody Mary I have ever had, thanks to hand-squeezed fresh tomato juice and
Blackberries, AI, and a finger in the stick blender (opens the original)
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It dawned on me yesterday that I spend a lot of time worrying about big things I can do little about. Primarily the climate and AI, the effect of data centres on the climate, the effect of AI on us, and what is going to be left of the world when the boys grow up. I go round and round in exhausting circles ending up at the same conclusion every time – why TF are we doing all this? To what end?I don’t think I’m alone in this - I think we all worry, because there is a lot to worry about. The world
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