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Starting in about 2016 we began posting gardening and related articles on Google Plus. The collection we put together was surprisingly more appealing to people than we first envisaged, and we acquired a reasonable following.

It’s refreshing to know that there is still a healthy appetite for the world of Horticulture and for Science and the Environment as a whole. We thought it might be worthwhile to make the sources of those posts available on this page, although unfortunately we can't provide any images. You will see the images associated with the article upon following the link to the source. Google Plus was retired on the 2 April 2019 and as yet we have not adopted another Social Media Platform to migrate them to.

The majority of these links will take you to the BBC but not all of them. The Telegraph, The Guardian and other newspapers have also over the last couple of years published some very interesting stories relating to these topics. All the below links open in a new window.

1 | Palm oil, one woman's fight to save 'the last place on Earth'

2 | Nation's botanical treasure troves 'under huge threat'

3 | Ash dieback, Ash woodlands 'may flourish once again'

4 | Tossing dead salmon is good for plants

5 | Research worms 'too old' to go to space station

6 | UK steps towards zero-carbon economy

7 | Home remedies 'no deterrent' against slugs and snails

8 | Olive Harrisson - Story of unsung gardener revealed

9 | Taller plants moving into warmer Arctic

10 | Quiz: Test your knowledge of evolution

11 | Spectacular super bloom transforms South African desert

12 | The secret life of fungi - Ten fascinating facts

13 | The tree that bleeds... metal?

14 | Six reasons plants are cleverer than you think

15 | Pests to eat more crops in warmer world

16 | Why a village in New Zealand is trying to ban all cats

17 | Rare Chinese tree's flowers attract visitors to Roath Park

18 | Wheat gene map to help 'feed the world'

19 | How the humble cabbage can stop cancers

20 | New pesticides 'may have risks for bees'

21 | The world's cutest thief?

22 | Weed killer glyphosate 'doesn't cause cancer' - Bayer

23 | Petrichor - why does rain smell so good?

24 | Arundel road scheme 'could harm ancient woodland'

25 | Nation's botanical treasures to go on display

26 | Reality Check: Are butterflies getting rarer?

27 | How the people of Delhi saved 16,000 trees from the axe

28 | How trees secretly talk to each other

29 | What do slugs hate? Home remedies put to the test

30 | Living in a woodland wonderland: The rise of the tree house

31 | Five ways to break up with plastic

32 | War On Plastic

33 | In pictures: Summer and winter solstice celebrations

34 | Abandoned 'ghost village' in China becomes overgrown

35 | Scientists shocked by mysterious deaths of ancient trees

36 | Restoring life to the Aral Sea's dead zone

37 | Iran mushroom poisoning: More than 800 sick from deadly fungi

38 | Seeds of hope: The gardens springing up in refugee camps

39 | 'Shocking' human impact reported on world's protected areas

40 | Bee crisis: EU court backs near-total neonicotinoids ban

41 | Waterwheel: Ten times faster than a Venus flytrap

42 | 60-Plant 'thugs' crowd roadside flowers

43 | 'Feel good' factor not CO2 boosts global forest expansion

44 | New climate 'feedback loop' discovered in freshwater lakes

45 | Kew Gardens: World's largest glasshouse reopens

46 | Genetic secrets of the rose revealed

47 | Health warnings after toxic caterpillar outbreak in London

48 | 66-EU member states support near-total neonicotinoids ban

49 | Plants Of Power

50 | Pakistan's Ziarat: An ancient juniper forest and its living fossils

51 | Nazi legacy found in Norwegian trees

52 | What is photosynthesis?

53 | Banyan - Insecticide drip to save 700-year-old Indian tree

54 | Why do so many people die shovelling snow?

55 | Loneliest tree' records human epoch

56 | Pollution blights UK sea grass meadows

57 | Origins of land plants pushed back in time

58 | 1,000-year-old oak on Offa's Dyke in Welshpool falls

59 | European Tree of the Year 2020

60 | RSPB - The Lodge Feeder Cam

61 | Paraguay lagoon sees giant lily pads return

62 | How flowering plants conquered the world

63 | Northern Forest - Plan to plant 'ribbon of woodland' across England

64 | Why is it so hard to swat a fly?

65 | What's really the point of wasps?

66 | Gardens under threat from 'game changing' plant disease

67 | Botanical exploits: How British plant hunters served science

68 | The man prepared to go to prison to save Sheffield's trees

69 | Seeds hold hidden treasures for future food

70 | Alarm over decline in flying insects

71 | New Forest champion arboriculturist talks about her love of trees

72 | Japan to restore neglected gardens abroad

73 | The gardener of Kabul

74 | The 83-year-old inspiring teenagers through gardening

75 | Brits urged to make gardens more hedgehog friendly in bid to halt animal's rapid decline

76 | 'Bionic' plants can detect explosives

77 | The plight of the conker

78 | Bosnian pine tree is Europe's oldest living thing at 1,075 years old, say scientists