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Are essential oils essential?

31/07/2021 admin 737 Views 0 Comments

By Clive Larkman

2021 and it seems we are living in a crazy world. Without looking at COVID-19 and its maddening repercussions, we need only to look at the ever-evolving world of medicine, herbs and therapies to really be confused.

On the positive side, there is a greater acceptance of non-traditional Western therapies, however, an understanding is far from simple.… Continue reading

Main gates and walk at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens in 1877, lined with used Wardian cases

Botanic Gardens

Wardian Cases, an Adelaide and South Australian perspective

01/07/2021 admin 931 Views 0 Comments

By John Sandham

In the British summer of 1829, while undertaking the collection of a moth pupa into a sealed glass vial, Dr Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868) observed that fern spores and grass seed, captured within the closed environment, could germinate and grow without any outside assistance.… Continue reading