This week my posts have been focused on our garden. For me, there’s nothing better than it being a happy haven for wild ones, whether they’re my kids, wild birds or flowers. I might usually write about walks on nature trails and learning about wildlife and nature, but if we’re at home and it’s not pouring with rain,
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I spent this past weekend at the Spring Fayre at Forest Garden Shovelstrode in Sussex. As children played in the sunshine, wild flowers glowed in the woods, a terrier leapt into the pond, and visitors strolled around the stands or watched wood crafting displays, that spring feeling struck me. Not surprisingly that spring emotion is
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Wild spotted orchid Dreamtime in the earth is over and so flowers have been waking up for their spring dances in the gardens, woods, meadows and fields around us. I was worried that I wouldn’t have many April nature notes as I’ve been rather distracted this month. At the start of April we moved house
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In recent winter walks in Ashdown Forest the only blooms I really noticed were the yellow flowers of the common gorse. I found it near the treeline by the Goat car park (named after a pub called the Goat which once stood here…a favourite of smugglers). And the evergreen gorse shrubs added a palette of yellow
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I came across a meadow of wild flowers in Southampton Village last week, while my daughter was rehearsing for her ballet show nearby. And then I found out that in 1640 the first settlers of Southampton in Long Island had walked and planted on this same site. I was in Southampton’s ‘Old Town’. Daisies, coneflowers, lupines, clovers
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The tale of one little dandelion seed begins in autumn and then continues through the seasons as we follow its life journey. At first, this lone seed in The Dandelion Seed by Joseph Anthony is afraid to let go. But the winter wind blows it away from the security of a garden. Alone it drifts
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