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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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    Ivy-leaved toadflax

    June 9, 2015

    Wood sorrel

    April 6, 2013

    Golden saxifrage

    April 6, 2018
  • 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 fragrance of juniper

    November 29, 2015

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016
  • Cockshut – lost in the shadows of twilight

    April 8, 2013 /

    The origin of 'cockshut', an age-old term for dusk, lies in the secretive habits of woodcock...

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    The road to Loch Avich

    October 6, 2018

    A writing update

    July 12, 2024

    The bridge of the fairy foxgloves

    June 8, 2013
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