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  • In a nutshell: the daisy or ‘day’s eye’

    May 31, 2014 /

    Known as the 'day's eye', because the flowers open only in full sunlight and close up again at dusk. Perhaps we should feel guilty about mowing their heads off!

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    12 Trees in Autumn

    October 1, 2017

    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022

    Devil’s-bit scabious

    August 24, 2016
  • Early Purple Orchid

    May 26, 2014 /

    With spikes of the richest, deepest magenta and leaves that are strangely blotched with purple, this is one show-stopping flower!

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    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    Winter trees in Glen Roy

    December 17, 2025

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022
  • The wild pansy, or heartsease

    March 31, 2014 /

    The endearing little flowers of heartsease were known to Shakespeare as 'Love-in-idleness'...

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    The Treshnish Isles

    July 5, 2021

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    Snowdrops: welcome signs of spring

    February 21, 2013
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