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Islamic gardens "Going back 3000 years" according to Monty

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    You call a country retarded then tell people not to take offence at that statement.  You've got a (Anglo Saxon word redacted) cheek.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Have to say I agree with you @Papi Jo
    From personal experience, it can cause a huge problem with doses of certain medicines if you move countries as a doctor.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I took @Papi Jo ‘s post as being very much ‘tongue in cheek’ ... no umbrage taken here 😎 

    Wish we could spend a peaceful Sunday in our own Paradise garden ... much more if this weather and we’ll be part of the Norfolk Broads instead of just being nearby 🌧 🚣‍♀️

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Surely a paradise garden would be measured in cubits? :)
  • TenNTenN Posts: 184
    I meant the historical/cultural nomenclature, should have made that clear apparently. Sorry for the poor attempt at humour.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ah well, that's the problem with black and white script.  No tone of voice to give extra clues and we don't yet know you well enough to guess your intent.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    steephill said:
    Surely a paradise garden would be measured in cubits? :)

    Like Noah’s Ark ... very relevant today 🌧 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Bearded iris. Chuck it on a rarely used crazy paving path in full sun to be picked up and composted later and forget about it. Next time you look, it will have rooted😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Missed PJ’s post, the only clue being ‘retarded’.  Curious... but only mildly.

    I love history. I am fascinated by entomology. I value nomenclature to assist in appropriate plant purchases. I like plant facts, but non are applicable to every location, climate and growing conditions. Use of brain and own experience required for the latter. 

    If the presenter of a lifestyle programme uses the probably more widely-understood term ‘Islamic garden’ (inadvertently or not) to refer to a 3000yr old style of garden that the wider Islamic world later appropriated and developed from an earlier culture, so what? Its just a garden. Hardly fake news to rival what’s going on in the wider political world. It’s not holocaust denial. It’s not life threatening. Chill!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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