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12 Sep 2014:
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland: Each year I have plucked the papery heads of hay rattle, their cargo of flaked almond-like seeds shaking inside, to distribute them
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28 Aug 2014: Country diary: Berry Head, Devon: I am not sure what to make of this perfect moth, a shard of oat-coloured wing, that is eating the headland’s rarest flower
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27 Aug 2014:
Country diary: Trematon Castle, Lynher Valley: We wonder at the labour of dragging up stone to create the precipitous motte, now planted with fennel and marjoram
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26 Aug 2014: Patrick Barkham: The BBC has been criticised after a scheme it promoted on Countryfile distributed packets of wild flower seeds containing a poisonous plant. But the truth is more complicated, and far less alarming
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25 Aug 2014: Country Diary: Hawthorn Dene, Durham: Although the drifts of cowslips and lady’s bedstraw were just a memory, the field was still spangled with flowers of knapweed, meadowsweet and hemp agrimony
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20 Aug 2014:
Editorial: The flower’s leonine manes and its sparse seed-clock state both go unappreciated, simply because it is common
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5 Aug 2014: Country diary: Penzance to St Ives, Cornwall: SLanes are edged in betony, knapweed, seeding campion and dried-up ferns, all woven with tufted vetch, honeysuckle, ripening blackberries and trumpets of Convolvulus
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5 Aug 2014: Letter: The British Horse Society does not want to destroy all ragwort but it is imperative that we protect our animals from its deadly effect
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31 Jul 2014:
Country diary: Pulborough Brooks, Sussex: Conservation bodies say the threats from ragwort ‘spread’ are exaggerated
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26 Jul 2014: After seven dismal years, plants and wildlife all over the UK are now thriving again
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18 Jul 2014:
Country diary, LLanymynech: Trowel marks in turf reveal where some collector has dug up the bee orchid
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16 Jul 2014:
Country diary: Blagill, Cumbria: Grass of Parnassus is duplicitous, and not just because it is not a grass at all
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9 Jul 2014: Maddy Harland on growing an extraordinary range of food when a field of poor soil was transformed into a permaculture paradise
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8 Jul 2014:
Country diary: Wenlock Edge: This orchid is supposed to look like a bee but is far weirder than anything buzzing about the meadow
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4 Jul 2014:
Country diary: Dames Slough, New Forest: The ride is studded with the flowers of tormentil, buttercup, cinquefoil and lesser spearwort
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