The internet harbours staggeringly wide range of crusaders, desperados, and Broad-Band Supermen. Mix them up with some perverts, narcissists, stalkers and fantasists and you have the plankton of the great online Sea, even giant websites like Facebook and Ben’s Garden are built on the energy flowing from these tiny insignificant digital archetypes. Of the various [...]
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Saving Gardens from Art
Posted in Garden Theory, Uncategorized, tagged Polemic on April 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Here’s a fine day — let us kill something
Posted in Garden History, Garden Theory, tagged Victorian on December 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
And so on to the Victorians, high-minded and heavily moustachioed exporters of British culture par excellence, and more specifically onto The Victorian Gardening Childhood, one that I missed by only century. Thank God. I have long believed that the dominance of the British Empire was a not a consequence of industrialisation, navel supremacy or even [...]
The Tree Ogham
Posted in Garden Theory, tagged Deforestation on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a Garden Blogger, people often ask me, ‘Ben, how do I make a Sacred Ogham Stick?’ normally I laugh if off, tell them that they’ve got Garden Bloggers and Semi Mythical Dark Age Celtic Druids mixed up again. But as it’s raining and I can’t do anything to the leaf mould, I think a [...]
