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  • Ivy-leaved toadflax

    June 9, 2015 /

    This pretty little wild flower seems to love ruined buildings just as much as I do!

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    Devil’s-bit scabious

    August 24, 2016

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

    May 31, 2014

    From the River Awe to Loch Etive

    November 21, 2025
  • The Birnam Oak

    May 11, 2015 /

    Did this majestic tree - or the forest in which it stood - inspire Shakespeare with an idea for 'Macbeth'?

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    Common butterwort

    July 9, 2012

    The wisdom of the oak

    January 12, 2013

    The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014
  • Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015 /

    With angelic buds and evil thorns, the hawthorn stands at the threshold of the Underworld

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    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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