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Medicine for unicorns, a dung courtship arena, a friendly giant oak and an ephemeral existence
Spignel aka baldmoney Meum athemanticum, an uncommon, low-growing, native member of the carrot family, mainly confined to the more mountainous parts of north Wales, northern England and Scotland. It’s notable for its beautiful, finely divid...
Invertebrate armadillos, clouds of pollen and the zebra in my greenhouse
A pill millipede Glomeris marginata trundling up a steep slope on a footpath through Low Burnhall woods near Durham city last week. It doesn’t look like the more elongated millipedes that are familiar to gardeners but, like all its kin, it...
A walk down the garden path: early May
It’s about 70 paces long and 12 paces wide, with a south-facing aspect, sloping downhill, with free-draining sandy soil and a prevailing south-westerly wind.
I started gardening here about 40 years ago, when it was just half lawn, half veg...
Wartwort, a bad-feather day, listening to earthworms and a discovery close to home
Bitter vetch Lathyrus linifolius, looking almost like a miniature sweet pea, flowering in the grass on the embankment of the former Teesdale railway near Romaldkirk. The petals change colour after pollination, from pink to a rather livid sh...
Snail love-darts, living fossils and larder beetles
A female holly blue Celastrina argiolus, like a flake of blue sky that has fallen to Earth, has been laying eggs on holly flower buds in the garden.
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Botanist, naturalist, Guardian Country Diarist. Profile image courtesy Omi Gates @omigates
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