Veg Plotting

I've been privileged to hear a number of distinguished speakers since I started blogging. Here's a list of those I've summarised thus far. You'll also find them under the Talks label in reverse publication order, but this should help you to find a particular post you'd like to read more quickly. General Talks - mainly at The University of Bath Gardening Club Paolo Arrigo: Seeds of Italy From Seed to Plate workshop at Oxford Botanic Garden Helena Attlee and Victoria Summerley: Italy's Private Gardens - An Inside View . In conversation at The Independent Literature Festival at Blenheim Palace Bob Brown: Propagating Your Plants - Part I and Part II Roger Doiron: A Subversive Plot - a fantastic TED lecture video looking at food issues Nigel Dunnett: Rain Gardens workshop at West Dean Gardens Raymond Evison: Clematis for Today's Gardens at Whitehall Garden centre Holt Farm - James' famous compost talk Mary Keen : Looking at the Whole Pict...

From 20th January to 14th July 2010 I wrote an A to Z of Weather in weekly installments as part of my contribution to the ABC Wednesday meme . It was a very popular series, so I thought I'd list the whole set here for easy reference. For I is for Isobars , I used a map provided by Meteorologica which I liked so much, I've also used it here as my header picture for this post. Wherever possible I've related the subject being discussed to how it affects gardening and I also hope that some of the chosen topics aren't the ones you'd expect :) A = Atmosphere B = Barometer C = Clouds D = Drought E = Electric Storm F = Film G = Gulf Stream H = Hair I = Isobars J = Jet Stream K = Katabatic Winds L = Lore M = Maps N = Nimbus O = Occluded P = Precipitation Q = Questions R = Rainbow S = Sunshine T = Thermometer U = Umbrella V = Volcano W = Weathervane X = eXtreme Weather - contrived I know, but... Y = Years Z = Zephyr