Category Archive: crocuses

Feb 22

February’s garden tips

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Wild ride. Our landscape seems as confused as our bodies through this most unusual winter. Spring bulbs certainly think it’s spring one day, only to be blanketed by snow the next. There’s not much to do to prevent this early emergence, other than to enjoy the show. Snowdrops, crocus, hellebores, even my neighbor’s daffodils are …

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Feb 22

Delight in small things

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I love this time of year. it is the season when, despite the cold weather, the garden is full of new growth. Everything is full of possibility again, seed packets plop through the letterbox seducing you with images of beautiful flowers or glossy vegetables. Every bit of tired old dead growth cut back seems to …

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Feb 22

Huge new boreal forest preserve in Manitoba

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How can I accuse Selinger of lack of integrity? Should I start with his being shamed only last Friday by reporters into admitting that he has never met with the UNESCO officials who he claims insist the designation was at risk if BiPole was installed on the East side, or should I just spell out …

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Feb 21

Speaker line-up revealed for Licensing@Russia

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The speaker line-up for next month’s Licensing@Russia show has been unveiled, with a range of execs from different sectors taking part. LIMA president Charles Riotto; former president of Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products, Leigh Anne Brodsky; Gregory Economos, SVP, global consumer products at Sony Pictures Consumer Products; Cookie Jar COO Toper Taylor; senior partner at …

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Feb 21

Crocus blooming signals spring

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Information on Loughborough Posted on 08/02/2012University of Leicester Despite current short, cold and grey days, signs of springs are appearing at the University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden. One of the first flowers to bloom in spring, crocuses are coming back to put on a spectacular display throughout the Sandstone Garden in front of Beaumont Hall. …

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Feb 21

Garbage set to release new album in May after seven years

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Since the release of their self-titled debut album back in 1995, Garbage have sold well over 12 million albums worldwide and set the stage for a new breed of female-fronted alternative rock bands. At the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards, they won the award of Breakthrough Artist, whilst the release of their 1998 album Version …

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Feb 20

S(no)drops? Slowdrops! – Daily Feature – Blackpool Gazette

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Published on Monday 13 February 2012 09:59 It’s Snowdrop month at Lytham Hall. Shame nobody told the snowdrops. If Tolkien called trees Time Lords snowdrops must be the Taking Their Time Lords. Nobody wants to poop a party, least alone a gallant galanthus (as posher gardeners call them) but who can blame them for keeping …

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Feb 20

Hooked on heavenly hellebores

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The Irish Times – Saturday, February 18, 2012 Their names may not trip off the tongue, but the exquisite spring flowers of the Hellebore are a full-skirted feast for the eye, writes FIONNUALA FALLON  LIKE SO MANY other gardeners of my acquaintance, I am something of a hellebore junkie, an oddly addictive but relatively harmless …

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Feb 19

Herb: Saffron (Crocus sativus)

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Print as PDF  Print this Post Gary null on “Saffron” Saffron purchased at retail is monstrously expensive: around $44 for a quarter-ounce. but, amazingly, it’s easy to grow in the home garden. (What makes it expensive at retail is not any difficulty in growing the plant–it’s just a variety of autumn crocus–but the hand labor …

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Feb 19

Interview with Barry Hoberman, Crocus' chief marketing officer

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Crocus is a startup company that develops MRAM technology – and recently they have announced several exciting advances in both their technology and their financing and production plans. we had the good chance to interview Barry Hoberman, Crocus’ chief marketing officer. Q: Barry, thanks for agreeing to answer our questions… The big story today is …

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