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Some gardening news

by Sarah - August 11th, 2009.
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Not from me this time, but a story I’ve just seen on the BBC about a huge meat eating plant! You know venus fly traps and pitcher plants catch flies and other small insects, well they have recently discovered this huge plant in the Philipines which is a new special – see the bbc news story here

Plus also on the BBC news site this week a report about waiting lists for Allotments around the UK. In one London Borough there is a 40 year waiting list for an allotment. That’s pretty shocking news but not a complete surprise to anyone one of the thousands of people on the allotment waiting lists. More should really be done to encourage people to grow their own,.