Illustrator of magical places. Insect loving allotmenter. Mother. Anti-glyhopsate, anti-rascist and anti-fascist. Here for wildflower and biodiversity chats 🍉
Tiny harvests today from my urban allotment in Inchicore. I always feel lucky to have an allotment and it's probably the only reason I can still live in a city 💚
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@TheKerrySlug@IrishRainforest Anthropomorphising ecology can work well in storytelling but really not for science. Moving plants and animals around is a manmade... And it can of course happen naturally like Magpie here. But monoculture forests is man-made and detrimental
@micheal_olainn@IrishRainforest Exactly and that link can even be found in our mythology, Over Nine Waves. Such a fascinating story. Irish people is a make up of many people who came here. They only stopped coming because we were so colonised and conditions were so bad here. Thankfully it's changed
@IrishRainforest@Caccabus You are teaching is all, Eoghan. Lovely to see Polybody's last weekend in Kerry. But so much knotweed and rhodo. Just too sad. Obviously your words about rhodo and lack of baby trees haunts me. Especially after seeing your well cared for baby trees.
@katemacrae We also have a house spider living in our kitchen. Great fly catcher. Although we don't have many flies now and I am worried out friend won't have enough food. We called the spider 'Ray'. It lives down the side of a sash window and has a lovely, long web