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Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!: Loose and Leafy began on the Dorset coast. Now I'm blogging from urban West Yorkshire (England). Loose and Leafy in Halifax. No sea. Lots of buildings. And a new allotment. The Loose and Leafy blogs are more about seeing than knowing. I'm neither a botanist nor an entomologist so if you see anything wrong . . . say!

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About me now. Specifically now! In July 2019 I had a stem cell transplant to get rid of Acute Myeloid Lukaemia. It seems to have worked but in the process it swept away childhood inoculations and wiped out all immunities acquired through a lifetime of fighting off germs.
I've been given an anti-cancer drug on compassionate grounds; a pharmaceutical manufacturer provides me with a medication that is not yet on general release. A side affect of this drug is that it reduces my body's ability to fight off infections. So, here I am, alive and healthy but 'vulnerable' - and advised to avoid breathing in bacteria which live in soil.
The government put me in the 'shielded' group to protect me from the current cornona virus so for three months I could not leave the house Blogging about wild plants and an allotment when the only contact I could have with the outside world was through my window, occasionally standing on the doorstep and by asking others to do the allotment for me . . . was a bit of a challenge! But now, although the shielding has been extended by a month, shielded people are allowed, indeed encouraged, to go outside and walks - as long as we stay away from people who are not part of their our everyday household. The new challenge is to get those legs walking again!

My First Blog

Loose and Leafy in Dorset

The orange curve of a back wing showing black spots, white edge and flash of blue

Message in a Milk Bottle

My Blog List

EAGLETON NOTES

Almost Midnight, Almost Midsummer.
earthstar

Lifer: Scarce chaser
Flighty's plot

I’m pleased…
Dirt Therapy

Roses In The Garden - a book review
Magnon's Meanderings

Spot the Difference
Granny Sue's News and Reviews: West Virginia Storyteller Granny Sue's Daily Blog

Change
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Two spiders in the bath - only one came out alive
Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)

These flowers have pockets
Paying Ready Attention - Photo Gallery

Wild Bird Wednesday 673 - Great Crested Grebe.
PlantPostings

Celebrating Turkeys, Native Plants, and Aldo Leopold
The Unconventional Gardener

Fields of Gold: June 2025
Travels With Birds

Book Review - Bodypedia: A Brief Compendium of Human Anatomical Curiosities - Princeton University Press
Higgledy Garden

Painted Sage (Salvia viridis). A Higgledy ramble.
greentapestry

IAVOM ~ 'Stawberry Moon'
Garden Rant

Playing With Color in the Landscape
the blackberry garden

Tree following - June 2025 - faint hopes
Corners of my Mind

Plas Brondanw
Lichfield Lore

The Highwayman’s Grave
A Way to Garden

inspirations for the cutting garden, with frances palmer
Paul Lewis Money

Winter Fuel payment 2025/26
Through The Keyhole

Calas De Mallorca 2025
En passant par la Lorraine

Orchidés sauvages * Wild orchids 2025 #5
UK Wildlife

EP95 – Why the Planning Bill is bad for Wildlife with Becky Pullinger of the Wildlife Trust
Somewhere in Ireland

muckish mountain
Barefoot Lily Lady

Peony Love ‘Gold Standard’
USWildflowers.com Journal

#NPOD: White Milkweed #Nativeplants
everyday life

March
The Squirrelbasket

Snapshots of Nottingham city
Down by the sea

Down by the Sea Views February- May 2025
Bramble Garden

Inspiring People: Phyllis Tuckwell Charity
karengimson.wordpress.com

Inspiring People: Phyllis Tuckwell Charity
Message in a Milk Bottle

LOOKING OUT FROM A CAFE ON A DULL MORNING
Someday Cooking

Smoked Tuna Dip
brimfields.com

Journal. Preparing Our Garden@19 for an NGS Open Day.
Bloomsbury Wildlife

Free Hookup Apps That Are Actually Free
Wild and Wonderful

A Garden First today: the Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
Compton Verney

Summer at Compton Verney
Ben's Garden Log

Revamp your manchester loft: the ultimate handbook for crafting a dream home office
Red Dirt Ramblings

Magical, fleeting spring
An Urban Veg Patch

Tulips and a grand Day Out in Sussex
Margaret's Patch

Time to start sowing and planting
Hotchpot Cafe

So Contemporary
Another Bird Blog

Head In The Clouds
Elephant's Eye on False Bay

March and our False Bay garden
Veg Plotting

Earth and Sun and Moon *
flyobsession

This fly is no joke!
welsh hills again

The joys of book club
Eat Weeds

Spring allergy hell
Idle Words

The Shape of a Mars Mission
Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris

Back to the Southside
Pencil & Leaf

Year of the Snake, Rice and Seeds
Gardens at Waters East
Tales from Awkward Hill

What my garden really looks like
Notes of Nature

Indoor potting tasks with my helper
Gardens Eye View

Much to Celebrate
"By Stargoose And Hanglands"

The Stotfold Shuffle
Out of my shed

Dog Show now on Sunday 20th October
Garden amateur

Making beautiful music together
The Weaver of Grass

Final
T h e R o s e b a n k D i a r i e s

Tuesday Things
Some Wildlife Sightings in the London Borough of Bexley (SE London) and Surrounding Areas

Wild Flowers seen in St Paul's Churchyard, the City of London (TQ3281)
The Renaissance Gardener

Open garden : Jardin ouvert
Plants and Stones

Spring Ahead
Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond...

Myrtle (Myrtus communis): Characteristics and Care
Nature Blog Network

White Bird Identification Guide for British Columbia
The Anxious Gardener

Eastward Ho!
I live, I love, I craft, I am me...

Where the hawthorn tree grows
Gary's Studio
Beans and I on the Loose

Dual Birthday Party
Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas

How To Grow Blackberry Plants in Australia
The Constant Gardener

Rainforests in Newcastle, vanishing brassicas and winter squash
The Square Metre at TQ 78286 18846

Young leaves
Blooming Blogs »

Hello world!
Alternative Eden

Arab Baths in Palma de Mallorca
Tots 100

What is “Fair Use” of Online Content
Sophia's Blog | Interesting people/places I visit as part of my work and leisure

Hello world!
leavesnbloom

How To Get Phalaenopsis Orchids To Bloom Again
Leavesnbloom Photography

How To Get Phalaenopsis Orchids To Bloom Again
Alan Burnett's Picture Post

27 July 2022 : Denby Dale
LOOSE AND LEAFY IN HALIFAX

THE PLANTS OUTSIDE MY HOUSE - LATE JUNE 2022
The Blog Herald

A short history of blogging
oftencalledcathy

Reasons to be cheerful 25.2.22
Adrian's Images

BACK ON TRACK.
Our World Tuesday

Our World: The Love Edition Feb 2022
Far Side of Fifty Photos

Sunday Stills: Bundled
Don't Forget the Roundabouts

The most difficult thing I have ever had to write – Insects – A Very Short Introduction
FossilPlants

Menai Whitebeam Highlighted as part of BGCI’s ‘State of the World’s Trees’ report
The Quiet Walker

Insect week
Photos by Birgitta B.

Break time
craftygardener.ca

Garden Lens Friends
Imperfect and Tense

Interregnum
Mark's Veg Plot

Successes and failures
island threads

A Golden Sunrise
The Patient Gardener's Weblog

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – May 2020
Roger Brook - the no dig gardener

Companion planting, is it just tosh or is there something in it?
Starting Over, Accepting Changes - Maybe

The Fat Lady Has Not Sung
StramaXon

Solving "Preload key requests" point on PageSpeed for WordPress sites
chokka blog

Deficits, Deficit Gaps and Fiscal Transfers
Maryom's Garden

Post-christmas
Kentucky Fried Garden

Chia Seed Zucchini Bread
Joanne's Cottage Garden

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A HEALTHY NEW YEAR
The world from my window

Have a very merry Christmas
It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Catching Up: End of Summer
Countryside Tales

A Catch Up
Pencil and Leaf

A Glimpse into a Small World
Cooking in someone else's kitchen

Wild November
RURAL magazine

The magic of mushrooms, and forest finds
Lithops Stories

Adromischus trouble-shooting (23 pics)
BugBlog

Hull Dragons: September summary
Hard Up Hester's Writing

Elephant
The Galloping Gardener

Iconic British gardens - Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex
Pearl, Why You Little...

Representin'! or People. Huh.
Aberdeen Gardening - from Bonnie Scotland

Astrantia Star of Billion
The Eff-Stop

Markets
diary of a suburban gardener

humans and nonhumans, or yoga for chickens
Pardon my Franglais

Longing for corned beef and rationing books
Official Blogger Blog

An update on Google+ and Blogger
The Green Man Arboricultural Consultancy

Tree Surveys & Management
Loose couplets
Opvallend onopvallend

Along the market square
Purbeck Footprints

A Different Day
Dawns bloggy blog

A walk in the woods
Busy Bee's Garden

New Friend
duncanswildgarden

Day at the photo hide at RSPB Lochwinnoch
Down on the Allotment

Hot Stuff!
. . . Come Away With Me . . .

A New Place to Find Me
Hedgeland Tales

On reflection
The Inelegant Gardener

Epimediums
Alex T. Smith

I went on an adventure to St Ives and DRAWED things.
eljaygee

Gone and Moved!
City Bumpkin

Breakfast of champions: the egg muffin
ArtofGardening.org

The sun rises first on the Buffalo's East Side gardens!
Where Beechmast Falls

May at Cranborne Manor Gardens
plot 52

Dulwich Artists Open House 2018
Omaha Lens

Shades of Chocolate
Paying Ready Attention

Green
Patrick Tillett

Painted Rock Petroglyph Site - Gila River area AZ
The Green Lips

The Woman Tax
Growing up

Rats can fly!
rus in urbis

right now
Graphicality-UK

Merry Christmas from The Serendipity Garden
! Andando por las ramas !

Tartaruga en Açores
Wildlife Wanderings

Starlings
Fairegarden

Muhly Grass Now In Session
Adventures in Natural Beekeeping

Garden Colors
Kiss my Aster!

No Good Weeds Go Unpunished
Tropical Texana

GARDENING AFTER HOUSTON'S HURRICANE HARVEY
Nature Photo Blog

Michel D’Oultremont - Light
autisticality

How to make your event autism-friendly, part 3: cognitive needs
The Sea of Immeasurable Gravy

Hungry Birds - Hokkaido's Steller sea eagles
Nature Digital

At the old Venetian port of Chania, Crete. Στο παλιό λιμάνι..!
LOOSE AND LEAFY in DORSET

FOOT STICKING - MAY
LOOSE AND LEAFY in DORSET

FOOT STICKING - MAY
Linda's wildlife garden

Soaking peas and last attempt at blue lake running bean
Sweetbriar Dreams

The Gardens of Hever Castle - Part 2
Dreamfalcon

Lifer on a short trip to Italy
Hoe hoe grow

All that glitters ...
The Field

Sweet Potatoes - again
Gardeningbren in Nova Scotia

Spring In Progress
Slate Grey, Lime and Hay

nest
hillwards

Punch
Blog of Ed Phillips experiences with wildlife photography

A garden springtail survey
Gardening Jules

Wildlife Wednesday At Home and Abroad
Dancing Beastie

A word for the year
La Fosse - the house on the hill

When does a leveret become a hare?
Christ Church Welshpool

Remembering the Fallen of the Great War - George Henry Pryce
Coniston & Hawkshead National Trust team

I'm 'lichen' it - plenty to see on winter walks
Grow This

Judging Iowa, Part II
Circle of the Year

Waiting
The Portland Naturalist

The beginning of the Purple patch.
What's Wild in Cornwall

The lonely ringlet, and other garden tales
Interfaith Ramadan

Breaking Fast With Beyonce? The Dates In Ramadan - Anisa Subedar
Garden65

Insect Sex
Plantaliscious

Bluebells, blossom and cake…
The Forget-me-Not Cultivation Blog

I’m Back!
Roundtop Ruminations

Breaking new ground
Urban Plants, Urban Rocks

Death and Life in the Urban-Wild Ecotone
Suffolk Naturalist

A walk in the country
Foxglove Lane 2011-2016

My last blogpost.....here.....
Island Farm: Organic Farming on the Caribbean

in the company of prey
Always look on the wild side of life

The past 12 months in one whirlwind post
small matters

roots
fromacountrycottage

The sky is the limit.
Wild Plot | Plants, wildlife, nature, gardens

Tree Following: September 2015
A Year of Two Trees

September, dark leaves and a spider
Gardening Ways......

A Slice of Heritage Open Days
The Transmutational Garden

Wildlife Wednesday: September 2015
Women Who Run With Delphiniums

June-ness
Blog Photographies Naturelles

Anolis
My Somerset Garden

Cheat Lost Saga 4 Mei 2015 VIP Full Hack
Alex T. Smith

NEW HOME!
The Wilder Garden

Slow going
Muddy Boot Dreams

Breadcrumbs...and a hike
Barbee's Blog

Exploding Head
Bushmansfriend

Discover Whangaroa Harbour Tour
Elephant's Eye

We have moved (to a new blog. Pretty Please, update your blogroll)
Birding Portland UK

Don't Forget My Birding News is Now on Twitter
The Garden Moth Challenge

End of year total
Urban and Post-Industrial Nature

Winlaton Mill - from iron foundry and coke works to nature conservation
Heart and Soil - Spindlebrook Combe

Why I cancelled my 6000 tree planting scheme in favour of Scrubland, Heathland and Natural Regeneration (or re-wilding!)
The Big Picture

Times Square
Meadowmat: bringing back our wild flowers
Pictures Just Pictures

RED VALERIAN GROWING ON SANDSFOOT CASTLE
My Garden Spot

Still Around
ontheedgegardening

Pied Piper
Half Full or Half Empty?

Apologia Pro Vita Mea (kind of).
Garden Girl

Chicago-area Edible Garden Tour
The Orchard Year

Apis Mellifera: Honey Bee a high-speed short video filmed by Michael N Sutton
A Small Holding

"Cabbage With A College Education"
Alderandash

Planting trees – the long game
The Naturalist's Miscellany

Flight of the Bumblebee
Laetitia Maklouf

A gooseberry salsa…(sort-of)
Greenforks

May begins with sun then lots of rain
FallToClimb

Ten important things I learned about teaching (Part II)
Bin's Diary !

Everything changes...
Watching Dorset wildlife

I’ve started a new blog..
SILVERTREEDAZE

POST-BELLUM POPPYCOCK
In a Soft Light

thankful
treeaware

ASH TREES: Chalara Ash Dieback
josephinesgarden

July Going Over
Bug Girl's Blog

Mad Hatterpillar: The Sequel!
Brambleberries in the Rain

.:Yarn Along:.
Llanfach smallholding

moving on with our lives
Midnight brambling

Midnight brambling is moving on…
The Roaming Gnome

Roamy's Welsh Experience!
Gilly in Ariège

52 Week Salad Challenge: April
Sweet Home and Garden Chicago

SWEET HOME AND GARDEN CAROLINA IS NOW LIVE !
Rural Idiocy

January Journey
Volando en el tiempo

Algunas flores primaverales....
rosa-sinensis

La Communidad De La Playa
Terra farmer

I have A New address!
Lost In The Flowers

Soiled Tend'n-Sees
Guilty Gardener

Of Dogs and Children
Crafty Gardener
Photography Blog | Kirk Norbury Photography
GRANDMA'S NATURE JOURNAL
Tree Care Tips
Shakespeare’s England
Rebecca Sutherland
The Idle Historian
Hello nature | (Re)discovering nature
An Artist's Garden
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