This is how new species might be formed from fertile hybrids, some believe.

In Spain I believe the expression is as follows ‘You can’t educate pork’.
The truth of reality is often hard to bare. The same attitudes are common among the hunting lobby in the UK.

There is another thought, the reproductive urge is so strong people cannot resist it’s power to overcome any doubts they may have. UK birth rate is dropping but families above the average, are they rising? What are the stats, I don’t know?

But people go on reproducing, in spite of what we know is happening. Is it that they prefer not to think about the consequences or just don’t care. The last proposition is that they don’t know what is going on in the world. Then of course there are the climate change deniers. Lots to consider eh?

Well done, I couldn’t put it better.

What has happened is that American culture and mores have had a powerful influence on the way we think and behave. Of course millions of both us and Americans behave in ways considered normal by most of us. I do so agree with you on every level.

With more research I have discovered that while this is a popular garden plant in the arid landscape of Texas actually it comes from similar dry habitats in parts of South America.

I am afraid it has been badly affected by the lack of rain. Basically a fern and tree garden with a greenhouse full of plants that I can keep alive. It is warm in the greenhouse where the Taro grow huge with the fish in the tank below. I am lucky to have such a wonderful place to grow them.

Once as scarce as hen’s teeth. Climate change enabling many such species to gain a foothold in the UK, formally such a presence would have been impossible. So many to record, a quick look at the literature will confirm what i say. The reverse is also true with relict northern species declining.

My O.T. sister told me to turn over and use your hands placed forward on the ground in front of you then push up from there. I am old 84, and often sit on the floor in charity shops checking out the old books that may be worth the effort. It works every time.

Shades of Edward Lear, very nice indeed.

What a picture Linnea borealis is as rare as hens teeth in the UK, what a view, wonderful to behold.