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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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    Three favourite woodlands for autumn colour

    September 17, 2017

    The old pinewoods in Glen Orchy

    October 17, 2025

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015
  • 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 Scots pine: keeper of the forest

    February 12, 2014

    The ancient oak woods of Taynish

    July 2, 2015

    Snowdrops: welcome signs of spring

    February 21, 2013
  • 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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    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022

    Hawthorn – bride of the hedgerow

    April 25, 2015
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