There is a springtime tradition in the Isle of Man against having daffodils or other yellow flowers inside the house.
Bill Quine recalls his youth in the 1940s and 50s to explain the beliefs about what would happen if you ignored this taboo.

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Bill Quine recorded by James Franklin on 14 March 2024. The full interview is available online here: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/bill-quine-824294/

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Manx folklore against yellow flowers in the house

Ken Crowther gets ready for spring with some of the jobs to be doing during April '24. 

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Monthly to do list

Jobs in the garden for April with Ken Crowther

In this episode, Kate interviews Dr. Kyra Sanchez Clapper about her research and teaching work at Bethel University. The discussion covers daffodils, pear trees, and French gardens. For more information about Dr. Sanchez Clapper and her work, check out her academia.edu page here: https://bethel.academia.edu/KyraSanchezClapper .

If you are interested in connecting with Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene, please visit our website networkingwithplants.org or email us at networkingwithplants@gmail.com .

The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is

Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.

Episode 31 Kate Brelje Interviews Kyra Sanchez Clapper

get down on x daffodils

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Christmas Advent calendar - Direct Bulbs

Ken Crowther talks to Adrian Scamp from Scamp's Daffodils in Cornwall. 

#gardeningtips #gardening #daffodils #flowers #plants #cornwall
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Adrian Scamp says it can take between 15 and 20 years for a new variety of daffodil to be introduced

Celebrate Daffodil Day (March 22) and the start of the spring travel season with this episode of Big Blend Radio's "English Connection" show with Glynn Burrows who talks about his adventures in Anglesey, Wales. 

You can read Glynn's article about the daffodils, beautiful scenery, and historic sites like Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey, here:  https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/anglesey-wales-daffodils-scenery-and-historic-sites/

Glynn Burrows is the owner of Norfolk Tours in England. He appears on Big Blend Radio every fourth Saturday covering England as a travel destination as well as family history research. Follow his podcasts here:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzIUCV2e7qm2IK_1Zfh-xJ9eEVYhqqC3Z

Learn more about Norfolk Tours at https://norfolk-tours.co.uk/

This episode is also featured on Big Blend Radio's "Big Daily Blend," "Way Back When," "Garden Gossip," and "Vacation Station" shows. Check out our network of podcasts here: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-network/bigblendradionetwork

Anglesey, Wales: Daffodils, Scenery, and Historic Sites

Gardener, Patrick Van Dyke talks to Oliver Rogers about how he came to be working at the Keukenhof and planting around 7 million bulbs on the 32 hectares (79 acres) every year. 

Have you visited the Keukenhof previously? Post a comment below about your experience of the grand tulip gardens in the Netherlands >>>

For more information on visiting the Keukenhof look at their website: https://bit.ly/3HV3YFY

#gardeningtips #Netherlands #gardening #tulips #flowers
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Keukenhof 2025: Changing career for tulips

Jos Smit from JUB Holland shows Oliver Rogers the JUB Holland border for 2025 at the Keukenhof gardens in Netherlands. 

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Dutch tulips: JUB Holland border at Keukenhof 2025 (1/2)

Daffodils by Jason Allen-Paisant

Recorded, Written, Mixed/Mastered by AP Beatz. Beat by Darko. 

Daffodils

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The evolution of plants has been so successful that today they account for the majority of living biomass on Earth. Humans, along with all other animals, exist thanks to plants, and we can continue to exist only in relationship to them. Plants are all around us, but we tend to overlook their importance in our everyday lives. Plants are essential not only to every breath we take, but also to our food, medicine, shelter, and clothing. Still, most of us walk through life and ‘nature’ without recognizing plants as the beings shaping the planet.

The Vegetal Turn
Given the magnitude of challenges facing the Earth, recent years have seen a renewed and growing attention to plant life across the humanities as well as in the social and natural sciences. This Vegetal Turn is generating transdisciplinary conversations within and beyond academia that seek to create awareness of plant lives and stories and that pursue respectful relationships with plant beings by advancing an ethics of care. How can we better understand the role and agency of plants in shaping on Earth? What does respect mean when engaging with a forest, a field, an orchard, or a potted plant? How do we advance a transition from thinking to acting, from research to practice, in our connection with plants?

What actions are now needed?
We believe that the current challenges of the Anthropocene offer a compelling and urgent opportunity to advance a movement for thinking and engaging differently with plants as well as for increased allyship and exchange between researchers, practitioners, educators, and activists. Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a newly created network for those involved in research, education, and advocacy for human-plant relationships of care and reciprocity, and a collaboration between the Consortium of Environmental Philosophers, The Plant Initiative, the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network, the Eternal Forest project, and other groups. We invite connections with additional existing and incipient networks and communities concerned with plants and ethical plant-human relationships to carry out multidisciplinary projects. Such a “polyculture of ideas” will bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous science, literature, philosophy, poetry, art, anthropology, education, botany, and environmental activism.

What do we do?
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene aims to create and offer tools, content, and methods for transdisciplinary and transgenerational environmental education engaging with the Vegetal Turn that isinternational but locally grounded. The network collaborates to advance outreach and education for the general public through books, conferences, videos, podcasts, and other educational materials, both online and in person. Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene is built on a foundation that is respectful of Indigenous and local botanical knowledges, contemporary scientific discoveries, and world philosophies and literatures. We support generative ways to cultivate educational pathways through art, stories, songs, ceremonies, and individual experiences as well as opportunities for collaborative action.

We welcome your support for the goals of better understanding plants and aligning human behavior with plants in more ethical and respectful ways. For more information or to join in this initiative, please contact us: networkingwithplants@gmail.com

Who We Are
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene’s Steering Committee:

Alice McSherry

Anna Perdibon

Deepta Sateesh

Evgenia Emets

Joela Jacobs

Kate Brelje

Marcello Di Paola

Paul Moss
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