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The Shrewd Gardener
http://www.shrewdgardener.com
A personal blog of my interests and experience as a gardener, garden designer and builder. My long interest in ecology and science also gets a big look in too.
Recent Posts
Christmas Garden Quick Quiz
Here is a quick quiz for Christmas time. See how well you do. Christmas Gardening Quiz » Free Online Quizzes...
Copenhagen – was it all worth it?
Was the trip to Copenhagen worthwhile for all the nations that took part? Well, yes it was. Kyoto was a beginning, a start on the path towards working out some solutions to the problems caused by man made pollution. In Copenhagen the aim was to go fu...
Gardening when you have disabilities
A few years ago I worked for a wonderful charity called the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF) which amongst many, many other things maintains a database of equipment for people with disabilities. Actually the name of the charity is a bit misleading ...
London gripped by frost, at last.
OK, maybe ‘gripped’ is a bit strong but I was glad of my scarf and gloves this morning when I dropped the kids at school. The ponds were frozen in the local park and the water fowl were seen to be skating around. I a temperate climate suc...
New Scientist debunks newspaper list of why global warming is natural
Check out this helpful online article by the New Scientist which cleanly debunks the top 50 of 100 ‘reasons’ why ‘Global Warming is natural’ published in the Daily Express recently. As a casual reader it can be very difficul...
Blogging mistakes – Wordpress 101
I’ve just fixed an issue with my blog. Being such a clever bod, I assumed wrongly as it turned out, that I would have instant mastery over Wordpress. As a result I dropped the code for Google Analytics into my site templates and watched the res...

