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Bird’s foot trefoil
Affectionately called 'hen and chickens' or 'bacon and eggs', the flowers of bird's foot trefoil light up sand dunes, heathland and rocky shores
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In a nutshell: the daisy or ‘day’s eye’
Known as the 'day's eye', because the flowers open only in full sunlight and close up again at dusk. Perhaps we should feel guilty about mowing their heads off!
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Early Purple Orchid
With spikes of the richest, deepest magenta and leaves that are strangely blotched with purple, this is one show-stopping flower!
by Jo Woolf
