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Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite
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
Beeches evoke the true beauty of the British landscape, with their majestic shape and vivid autumn colours.
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Cockshut – lost in the shadows of twilight
The origin of 'cockshut', an age-old term for dusk, lies in the secretive habits of woodcock...
by Jo Woolf
