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A garden is not forever...
Because every garden reflects those who have loved it and when they are gone, likely so is the garden
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Ailsa Francis
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July 2023

Can you integrate overgrown plants into a new garden design?
I say yes...
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Ailsa Francis

February 2023

Attention Houseplant Black Thumbs!
I'm here for you.
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Ailsa Francis
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Life in death
Yes, there is beauty and new life in destruction and decay
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January 2023

Knossos - Minoan history or mythic theatre?
Part I: Was today's Knossos fashioned from flights of fancy or rigorous archaeology?
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Ailsa Francis
Time and making the most of it
I'm not talking a new watch or organizing your cutlery drawer
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Ailsa Francis

December 2022

Water - a gateway to magic
It wasn't always that way.
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Do stories and films shape little girls' dreams?
How female protagonists and points of view are so formative to us as we grow...
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Ailsa Francis
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Some of the newest perennials for 2023 (and 2022)....my choices amongst the clamouring hoards
Go down the rabbit hole with me.
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Ailsa Francis

November 2022

Littering.
Does it drive you crazy too?
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Ailsa Francis
Every winter....but now, an Ode to Skye-dog
Sometimes we just let the pictures lead us to where our heart wants to go
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Ailsa Francis

October 2022

When yours is mine
Poaching antiquities has a long tradition; little did I know someone in my own family tree was involved.
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Ailsa Francis
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