Ways trees can save us

Feeling a bit off-colour today after ingesting some building dust plastering the back shed with my 13 year old son.  High time I purchased an industry approved face mask and goggles. I have started reading a very interesting book called 'The  Global Forest- 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us' by Diana Beresford-Kroeger.  Lovely, lovely writer (nee Ireland) and not surprisingly given the way she interweaves observations about our Celtic heritage, mythology, symbolism with the stuff of biology.

Speaking of people in the public eye, I was listening to Radio National's By Design programme on Saturday morning, and the host was interviewing Paul Bangay,  a famous Australian garden designer. Mr Bangay was heard to say (and this is as close a quote as I scribbled down): Australian gardens are today becoming less about a choice of plants, hybrid planting, as in the past.  Today, gardens are becoming a place for relaxing in,  for a kitchen, a television ...

But then he seemed to stop himself going further.  He didn't go on to say, why next, people will be taking their baths outdoors, too.   You see us gardeners do think the latest craze is ... a tad crazy.