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  • Lady’s smock

    June 2, 2013 /

    In the spring sunshine, look out for this delicate wayside plant which is 'painting the meadows with delight'!

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    Plant-hunting in Sutherland

    July 23, 2025

    The Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    A festival of fungi

    November 2, 2013
  • Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite

    May 17, 2013 /

    According to a Greek legend, wood anemones - or windflowers - sprang up where the tears of Aphrodite fell. A lovely story, although she must have wept quite a lot, poor girl!

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    Honeysuckle

    September 6, 2021

    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    From the River Awe to Loch Etive

    November 21, 2025
  • The majesty of the beech

    April 16, 2013 /

    Beeches evoke the true beauty of the British landscape, with their majestic shape and vivid autumn colours.

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    Wild cherry: the last snow of spring

    April 19, 2019

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    The fire of the ash

    August 9, 2016
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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