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Wild flowers

August 2024

  • The view between my horse’s ears riding in woods near Porlock. The low bushes visible along the edge of the path are whortleberry plants.

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    Country diary: Into the woods for the (near) silence of midsummer

    Porlock, Somerset: Only hungry horseflies and a young buzzard disturb the peace, while the deep green has taken on a blue glint

July 2024

  • Muddy dog wearing a backpack

    Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in Lewes

  • Yellow bird's nest orchid at Ravenscraig.

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    Country diary: Nature shows its mettle at the old steelworks

  • Orange hawkweed is found on roadsides and hedgebanks.

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    The orange hawkweed is a fiery, foxy presence in the garden

  • Wild flowers - mostly white - in bloom among grassland, with bushes and houses in Woolacombe Bay beyond

    National Trust’s wildflower meadow project flourishes on north Devon coast

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    Country diary: Some flowers are happy on the mess we leave behind

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    Country diary: A blissful brush with Swedish flora

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    Country diary: The impossible beauty of a flower meadow in summer

June 2024

  • A hedgehog inside a clay drainage pipe surrounded by colourful flowering plants

    Build a hedgehog highway! 33 ways to welcome more wildlife into your garden

  • Foxglove

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    Country diary: My accidental, flowering tower block

  • Fairy foxglove (Erinus alpinus), a Pyrenean native alpine flower, adorns the walls of Stanhope castle.

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    Country diary: The prettiest of castle flowers – but how did it get here?

  • Pineappleweed or wild camomile, Matricaria discoidea

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    Country diary: Signs of summer are … here somewhere

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    The corpse flower: is this the world’s smelliest plant?

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    Country diary: Fifty shades of green

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    Country diary: A roadside rarity that’s so easy to miss

  • The South Downs bolthole that offers a ‘complete escape from the world’

  • Bob Gibbons obituary

  • ‘A sign of hope’: why weeds are finally being embraced by gardeners

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    Country diary: The glorious cycle of life is reaching its annual peak

May 2024

  • Dandelion flowers grow wild from the grass in a back garden at the end of April.

    The power to help the planet is at your (green) fingertips

    Letters: Readers extol the benefits of sustainable gardening in response to a long read about the untapped potential of home gardens
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