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RTBG  Thursday 3rd June 2021

I am not going far these days. Friends seem happy to fly to the mainland and risk being trapped with an unexpected Covid lockdown. That uncertainty and the related risks are not for me. Meanwhile my day to day world … Continue reading

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RTBG Thursday 6th May 2021

Weeks have passed since my last posting to this blog, partly because arthritis has struck my hands and wrists from ‘too much weeding’!!!!! Alas. Incredibly disappointing, frustrating, and inconvenient. Thanks to all my readers who made contact to check I … Continue reading

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RTBG Thursday 24th October

I wasn’t able to volunteer today at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) but you may be interested in a couple of my casual experiments. Firstly, I decided to pick the leaf tips from a couple of my camellia trees … Continue reading

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RTBG-13 June 2019 post 1 of 2

After three weeks of commitments elsewhere, I returned to my voluntary work in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG). At my eastern shore bus stop the temperature was 7 degrees and in Hobart’s CBD it hovered around a brisk 6 … Continue reading

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