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  • 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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    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021
  • Skye’s ‘coral beach’

    March 29, 2014 /

    Claigan beach in north-west Skye owes its dazzling white sands to an unusual variety of seaweed...

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    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    Enchanter’s nightshade

    July 4, 2019

    The cuckoo in his mantle grey

    May 26, 2024
  • The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014 /

    This yew tree in a Perthshire churchyard may be 5,000 years old: it's astounding to think how much human history it has witnessed in its lifetime.

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    The whirlpool of Corryvreckan

    July 7, 2012

    The Hill o’ Many Stanes

    April 10, 2025

    The magic of the birch

    February 14, 2013
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