Growing Things: Water is the elixir for tree life
Q: My prevailing concern is for our beloved seven-metre tall linden tree with a 15-cm trunk. After several years of decent growth this tree has, for the past three or so years, produced little growth and only loonie-sized leaves. Still, the entire tree always leafed out. Google concluded this was a “small leaf” variety, so my concerns were minimal. A tree person told me it was stressed and this was normal with the drier summers. Read More
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Plantation women: Marginalized within a marginalized people
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, September 26: Tamil women in Sri Lanka’s plantations are a marginalized lot within the marginalized plantation Tamils, who prefer to be…

