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  • 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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  • 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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    January 12, 2013

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  • Wood sorrel

    April 6, 2013 /

    This delicate little woodland dweller should soon be opening out its blooms in the spring sunshine.

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    The Anemone of Passiontide

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    So many birds!

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