World Gardening is a ramified offshoot of Datscha Radio. The site brings together texts, observations, audio files and views about gardening and related topics from around the world, depending on where my travels take me.
Palazzolo: After the Day of the Dead
The town of Palazzolo Acreide is situated 43 kilometres (27 mi) from the city of Syracuse in the Hyblean Mountains ...
Taipei’s Flower Market
Taipei's flower market is located under the protective rain shield of a flyover about 100 meters from Daan Park. It's ...
Treasure Hill Garden Views
(Translation follows) Treasure Hill Artist Village im Zhongzheng Distrikt Taipehs liegt nahe am Fluss, über dem ein Wirrwarr an Flyovers ...
The El Paso Rose Garden
„Aspirin is very good“, Patrick says, „but take care you buy uncoated tablets only“, and he’s not talking about his ...
Judd’s Sunflowers
The only two times I photographed a desert prickly poppy (Argemone polyanthemos) was in 2003 and in 2018, and both ...
Resilience !
The Sotol plant (Dasylirion liophyllum) abounds on the Northern slopes of the Big Bend National Park. Its slender flower stems ...
Texan Roses and Night Shades
From the Red Roses of Texas to freely growing "Night Shades" in avocado shaped BBQ roasts found on the corners ...
The Hornet’s Datscha
Absolutely amazing and incredibly fast: in just 6 days, the hornets, having conquered the pine tree's birdhouse straight after the ...
A Walk to the Cabaña del Retiro
11. März 2018. I meet Daniel Sigler at the Casa Encendida where he reads silently the El Pais while I ...
Pink Dreams: La Quinta de los Molinos
21st March 2018 The air was fresh but the sun was shining and the lawns lit up in dreams in ...
The Batán Permaculture Garden
The district of Batán borders on the Casa del Campo park, the neighborhood is a mixture of appartment blocks for ...
16th Century Thistles: Visiting the Library of the RJM
A place for study, information but also a treasure trove of ancient books on botany, this is the library of ...
A visit at the “Hospital De Plantas”
It’s less than a 20 minutes drive into the western part of Madrid and we reach the community of Pozuelo, ...
The Honey Gardener
La Casa de la miel has been in the hands of his family ever since the shop was founded in ...
Sunday Diary: Gardens within Gardens
Here’s a very quick update on what is happening in Madrid with Datscha Radio – and an diary of how ...
Into the Periphery
7.3.2018 Today’s excursion to the periphery of Madrid brought on a flood of images and sounds. The aim was to ...
The Rosegarden of Ramón Ortiz
A most depressing sight for all non-plant-affine persons: A rose garden in early spring! Prickly bare sticks sprouting from grey-brown ...
Sabatini Gardens
Another rainy day and a visit to the Sabatini Gardens in the western part of Madrid, close to the Palace ...
Pot Plant Gardens, Bangalore
Urban Gardening is… (to date) not really existent in Bangalore. The reasons why and some anticipated changes of this circumstance ...
Notes from Gurukula
18:30 Uhr: Die Stunde, in der sich das Grün der Pflanzen und das Rot der Erde zu einem weichen, stumpfen ...
Greetings from the Silk Floss Tree
(Translation follows, sorry) Der Florettseidenbaum, gehörig zur Familie der Malvengewächse, Unterfamilie Wollbaumgewächse, verblüfft durch einen ausgesprochen wehrhaften Stamm... und Unmengen ...
An Alpine Aboretum
A secret garden is nestled in the alps, resting in the mountain off the Bogong High Plains Road that winds ...
Botanic Pant’s Pockets
From next week on it will be again pick(ing)s from the wayside: weird kangooroo flowers, fake verbena, seemingly ordinary thistles ...
Radio Gardening at Revolten
21st October broadcast now online: Ms Schaffner digs into her (Datscharadio) archives to see what kind of acoustic earthworms she ...
Hyblean Honey from Sortino
The Sortino Honey Festival starts on the 23rd of September, a three day fiesta dedicated to this most cherished product ...
The Wondrous Garden of the Cappuccine
The garden of the Cappuccine convent in Sortino lies deserted, enclosed by high walls, and less than 2% of the ...
Columbia Road Flower Market
Columbia Road's flower market explodes into whirls of colours... mixed with voices and plastic bags, hats, hands and hair-dos. Here ...
Call of the Gardens: London
London in August, a vist at Roots and Shoots, located since 32 years in the council on Lambeth. Founder Linda ...
Forbidden Fruit
If the snake had come up with a cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) instead of an apple we would be covered ...
Homebrew in Tasmania
Sandfly, Tasmania. 27. Nov. I am guest in the house of Julia Drouhin and Arjan Kok. The livingroom is full ...
Forthcoming: Beer in Tasmania
Beer tastes good! But will you really spend 8-10 Dollars on a glass/small bottle of Australian craft beer? The answer ...
Gardening in Bogong
This weekend the cabin owners are expected back in Bogong village. The community's sole gardener Marty is in charge for ...
Sounds from the Green Hills of Bogong
Some sounds from the vicinity... and from inside. Listen here! ...
Protokoll 12/6/2014 Bananenhain Bornheim
8:15 Schlafmangel. Mails. Uploads, Sichtungen Material. Fotobearbeitung. Check Farben/Belichtung, Scharfzeichnen, Sichern, Version fürs Web. 13:00 Aufbruch zum Bahnhof. Besuch im ...
Protocol 7/6/2014: Excursion to “Südsee”
Weather: Sunny, humid. 28 degrees. 8:35 Condition: exhausted, not enough sleep. Slow in thinking. Coffee. (Translation in due time) 10:00 ...
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