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  The giant ornamental onion – Allium giganteum is not only one of my favourite of all the flowering bulbs, it is one of my favourite plants of all! And why wouldn’t it be with its strongly held, large spherical globe-like blooms it is arguably the best of all ‘drumstick’ style flowers. However the bulbs can be difficult to obtain and then difficult to find ones large enough that will flower in the following year. However there is a low cost option to growing plenty of  giant ornamental onions and that is to do so from seed. So why not check out English horticulturist Simon as he explains the very simple method of propagating Allium giganteum. If you would like to see more content like this then consider subscribing to out YouTube channel – ‘Walking Talking Gardeners’. Click on the notification bell and you will be notified of all our future videos

One of the easiest ways to learn more about veganism (or show your friends and loved ones more about veganism) is to watch it in a documentary or film. But with so many new vegan documentaries out there, all varying in degrees of graphicness, how do you choose the best one for you? I read (okay skimmed) a lot of blog posts about vegan documentaries and, put frankly, they’re overwhelming – who in their right minds is going to sit through 50 vegan documentaries? Why do all the blog posts mention the same vegan documentaries? And why are all these blog posts written by people who’ve clearly never watched said documentaries? In this blog post I’ve tried to be super personal, and I’ve written it with the idea that you are my friend* and you’re asking me for a recommendation: maybe you want something non-graphic, maybe you want something super-graphic, maybe you want something about a specific part of veganism (no-honey, no-leather etc). I’ve tried to...

Statement On Sunday 25th June 2022, we learned that one container of empty metal ballot boxes for Southern Highlands that was being transported by the PNGEC logistics team to Hela was intercepted by the police in Mendi and is currently being held at Mendi Police Station together with containers of additional nonsensitive election materials. I wish to explain the circumstances of this delivery.  I confirm that on 22 June 2022, I instructed that the PNGEC logistics convoy redirect two containers of empty metal ballot boxes from Southern Highlands to Hela and Enga Provinces for the following reasons:  -Due to an ongoing 2017 election petition, SHP was not able to access the containers to obtain non-disputed empty metal ballot boxes at the time of dispatch of strategic materials, therefore the PNGEC sent three containers of empty metal ballot boxes to SHP.  -Whilst these containers were in transit to SHP, approval to access the containers in SHP occurred and as a result the stocktake of em...

People’s Party Founder and Chief Sir Peter Ipatas has retained his seat as the Enga Governor this afternoon after reaching the absolute majority on first count. Sir Peter Ipatas who ran under the party he founded managed to poll 172, 652 votes to surpass the absolute majority of 140, 220 votes to be declared. The runner up Laken Lepatu from the Liberal Party only managed to polled 30, 352 votes, while Independent Candidate Sandy Talita finished on the third place with 24, 277 votes. This will be the 6th term for Sir Peter Ipatas as the Governor of Enga Province.  Formal declaration and signing of writ was done today at 5pm. Sir Peter Ipatas’s declaration now brings the total number of People’s Party members to three. The two earlier declarations are for Dr. Lino Tom, Wabag Open and Freddy Reu Kumai, Talasea Open. Next :  PNG Election : Tketchenko retains Moresby South Open Seat