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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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    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    Morvern: black rocks and white water

    October 27, 2022

    The road to Loch Avich

    October 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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    The Anemone of Passiontide

    April 6, 2012

    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021

    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025
  • 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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    Honeysuckle

    September 6, 2021

    Snowdrops in January

    January 10, 2014

    Lochbuie Stone Circle and Moy Castle, Isle of Mull

    January 13, 2024
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