The birds are coming
February 20th, 2009 by lunamanIt’s not spring quite I know, but the blackbirds have arrived and the morning noise is escalating.
Meanwhile, I’ve been to the Plant Sciences Library, a small oasis of calm in the Science block at the University, overlooking the forbidding Biomedical Sciences Building. I took notes, by hand, how quaint, from the 1999 Catalogue of Plants growing in the University of Oxford Botanic Gardens & Harcourt Arboretum. I was searching for a handy guide to the age of some of the trees at Harcourt, but unfortunately, nothing is dated prior to 1964, when the University took over the Arboretum. I’m sure the gardeners will know, so that’s the obvious next step.