Theobrominated

At the moment, New Zealand’s largest flowering plant genus is Veronica (the speedwells and hebes ), with 122 native and 19 introd...

Disclaimer : the following is not medical advice. It's just a description of what I started doing for my hay fever last summer. And it...

I haven't blogged here for a couple of years. I've been busy doing other things, mostly with a camera, and I'll have more to say...

Spring’s here, although you wouldn’t know it today in Christchurch. I’m here for a couple of days to collect and photograph three veronicas...

When I was a little kid, I loved the Hans Christian Andersen story of the ugly duckling , a cygnet—teased by the ducklings for its ugliness—...

In New Zealand we have three native and 5 naturalised violets.  One of the naturalised ones is from Australia, identified in the 1988 Flora ...

Websites all over the world are protesting today (11 Feb 2014) about surveillance of the internet, email, telephones, and other communicatio...