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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 26 – Nature Walk – PoppyThe Poppy is one of the most recognisable flowers of the UK countryside and across the world due to its links to remembrance parades and the poppies growing in the fields of previous war battles (Flanders Fields). It is also used in medicine to produce pain killers and other uses.…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 25 – Nature Walk – Dog RoseThe Dog Rose or Wild Rose (Rosa canina) can be found in hedgerows and road sides. It can also be found as a cultivated garden plant. There are many different varieties of this rose. The rose climbs and winds through hedgerows. In a garden it needs something to grow against.…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 24 – Nature Walk – GoosegrassGoosegrass (Galium aparine), also known as Cleavers, Sticky Willy, Sticky Weed…. there are quite a few names for this plant. If your not familiar with the names, maybe the use of it, as lots of people pick some of the plant and throw it at each other as it sticks…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 23 – Nature Walk – Tree MossWhen out on a walk you may often see moss growing on the sides of a tree. The bark provides a great anchor for this plant to grow and it creates small micro wildernesses as it does. There is a saying that it grows on the North facing side of…
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Continue reading →: 30 Days Wild 2021 – Day 22 – Nature Walk – Monterey CypressThe Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) at Plas Newydd House and Garden (National Trust) are one of the first things that you encounter once in the grounds. These huge trees from the central coast of California in the US where it is a popular garden and landscape tree. The Monterey Cypress…
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