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  • Bird’s foot trefoil

    August 2, 2014 /

    Affectionately called 'hen and chickens' or 'bacon and eggs', the flowers of bird's foot trefoil light up sand dunes, heathland and rocky shores

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    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021

    Lesser celandine: greeting the sun

    March 15, 2016

    Before the rain

    April 10, 2022
  • 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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    A wand of hazel

    February 20, 2015

    Rosebay willowherb

    August 25, 2017

    Golden saxifrage

    April 6, 2018
  • 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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    New book: Voices of the Earth

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    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021

    Orkney: the Ring of Brodgar

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