IN A GREEN SHADE

A diary of back garden botany, urban ecology, rural rambles and field trips to the middle of nowhere...

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

The Red Admiral can be spotted well into autumn on warm, sunny days. I notice they seem to favour the leaves of Fig trees when available as a platform to bask on.

Rupert Hughes at 12:38

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Rupert Hughes: Childhood days in the garden and the countryside were tempered with the realisation as I grew older of the damage being done to the environment. In a geography lesson I encountered the concept of ecosystems; at much the same time I came across a book about the Gaia hypothesis- both address the interconnectedness of all things. Indeed, this is something that has been known across human history expressed by different names. When I was a child I saw the outdoors as a place to do stuff and make things. That's probably why I've been a gardener throughout my life; sometimes for a living, sometimes for its own sake. Hopefully -by keeping a diary- words and pictures can be part of that. The title of the diary comes from a line in The Garden by Andrew Marvell, published in 1681: "To a green Thought in a green Shade".

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