Originally published in The Landscaper magazine, November 2012 COVER STORY Once desirable, it is now seen as aggressive, virulent and definitely not a plant to be trifled with – Japanese knotweed, that is. Ffion Llwyd- Jones weeds out the facts. Japanese knotweed, a native of eastern Asia, was welcomed to Britain’s shores as an ornamental ‘architectural’ [...]
Communities on the Isle of Islay are moving forward with plans for tidal energy and renewable fuels while maintaining age old methods of agriculture and whisky distilling. (originally published in The Ecologist 12 November 2010). Everything seems to slow down on Islay – this southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides – also known as ‘The [...]