plants, they exist

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Cat Malogen
Daffs popped last 48 hours, masses of yellow bursts along the marina this morning, sprinkled in with the occasional snowdrop

Knowing it could rain for the rest of my life hedges against betting on an early spring
 

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I lived in a little terrace house in a city in the far southwest. Very soon my back yard was filled with salvaged orchids – nothing particularly rare, but all of them, technically, illegally obtained...

To solve the issue of overcrowding I decided to return them to where they belonged, back to the land. I thought the sight of these beautiful plants in conspicuous locations might raise people’s awareness of them and their plight, and maybe inspire others, just as they had inspired me. So began an unofficial guerrilla orchid rewilding programme. I planted them in various locations – parks, roadside verges, churchyards, beside sports fields – anywhere I thought they might survive.

Then I created a laboratory in my kitchen for propagating orchid seeds (orchid seeds, by the way, are very, very small, more like dust, and they don’t germinate like any other plant seed in the world). I cobbled the process together with things I could get hold of – think Breaking Bad but with a pressure cooker, microwave, air purifier and weird soups made of swede, pineapple juice and agar to nurture the growing seeds.
 

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I lived in a little terrace house in a city in the far southwest. Very soon my back yard was filled with salvaged orchids – nothing particularly rare, but all of them, technically, illegally obtained...

To solve the issue of overcrowding I decided to return them to where they belonged, back to the land. I thought the sight of these beautiful plants in conspicuous locations might raise people’s awareness of them and their plight, and maybe inspire others, just as they had inspired me. So began an unofficial guerrilla orchid rewilding programme. I planted them in various locations – parks, roadside verges, churchyards, beside sports fields – anywhere I thought they might survive.

Then I created a laboratory in my kitchen for propagating orchid seeds (orchid seeds, by the way, are very, very small, more like dust, and they don’t germinate like any other plant seed in the world). I cobbled the process together with things I could get hold of – think Breaking Bad but with a pressure cooker, microwave, air purifier and weird soups made of swede, pineapple juice and agar to nurture the growing seeds.

met this guy a couple of weeks ago - not all superheroes...
 
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