Lily 
Monday, July 6, 2009, 08:34 AM
Posted by Jane Owen
Lake swimming last night. Water lily flowers tight shut. Vast pike leaps out of the water lily pads beside me.

Now I will stick to admiring my own mini lilies, by day, from my pike-free garden.

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Cool thoughts 
Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 04:49 PM
Posted by Jane Owen
although I am too hot to think. Writing about no-chemical swimming pools is heating instead of cooling my brain. And I cannot remember the name of this plant.

I'm told that it seeds everywhere. I was told that about Nicotiana sylvestris and I can't manage to get it to flower let alone seed.
Then there's the enigma of the Monkey 'C'.

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Cancer unit bike ride 
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 09:32 AM
Posted by Jane Owen
Completed the cycle ride round Oxford to raise money for the Jane Ashley cancer unit. Very easy to donate: www.justgiving.com/isiscyclists. OK, not very challenging ride. 13 miles. Except that we were led but someone who is having her final chemo session today. What a star.
This is such a great cause.

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Monkey 
Friday, June 5, 2009, 11:35 AM
Posted by Jane Owen
So the Garden Monkey has an infallible Champagne Tracker Device too - just like the Hort Week team. Why wasn't s/he at the Future Gardens Laurent-Perrier trough yesterday? Maybe s/he was.

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Future Gardens 
Friday, June 5, 2009, 11:17 AM
Posted by Jane Owen

Tony Heywood's thing. Some people were comparing it to Niki de Saint Phalle's stuff. No way.


Bruno Marmiroli's tree through coal.Followed by: classic Ivan Hicks; golden dog turds (odd, even for FG);sitting hole in Hugo Bugg & Maren Hallenga's modestly named Narratives of Nature; Peter Thomas' Metamorphosis and the beehive bogs.



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