torchthebitch
Soothing jacuzzi bath
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2006
- Posts
- 15,972
English Juniper bushes are dying out! No more London Dry Gin.
I'll have to lay in stocks
The charity Plantlife today warned that the evergreens were in "serious trouble" in Britain - and that some southern counties have lost 70 per cent of their populations.
Junipers have been part of Britain's landscape for thousands of years, and were one of the first trees to colonise Britain after the last Ice Age.
Their aromatic berries are used in cooking and medicine, and are the key ingredient of gin.
But the slow growing shrubs have been badly hit changes in farming since the 1960s, and the spread of rabbits and wild deer.
I'll have to lay in stocks