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Weather lore – splash or soak? from loiswakeman 541 days old

[ ... ] in the saying. Ash is shallow-rooted, and oak has a taproot. So, oaks will generally fare better in dry periods than ash. But that isn’t the ...

May in May from loiswakeman 544 days old

At last, the hawthorn is flowering. For me, a still sunny afternoon, listening to flies buzzing, wood pigeons cooing, and smelling the heavy perfume ...

"Oak before ash... from loiswakeman 930 days old

we're in for a splash; ash before oak, we're in for a soak". Thus goes the country saying, which refers to the order in which the oak and ash trees ...