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Would you really want to pick a violet?  They look so frail and tender to me. They look like they need a helping hand rather than a rough tug. But Plantlife says it’s OK provided we don’t go overboard in our picking. Who thought of calling them dog violets? What sort of a name is…

Cow Parsely is one of the plants that Plantlife says we can pick! It’s in the Plantlife Pickable 12. There is lots of Cow Parsley in flower by the roadsides at the moment – our motor fumes fertilise the verges and Cow Parsley is a species that laps that up! As a hopeless botanist –…

A new video of a new song by Karla Kane of the Corner Laughers.

The Labour animal welfare plan is a pretty good document. It is open for consultation until the end of the month – please send in some comments – I have! I welcomed the plan – which includes some conservation measures as well as primarily welfare measures. That’s good.  But Labour does need a nature conservation…

From now until, the beginning of July, blog posts here will be far less frequent and rather unpredictable, as I am travelling a lot – coming and going. This might be a good time to sign up to getting new posts on this blog to be sent automatically to you.  You can do that by…

  I was slightly surprised to see Primrose on Plantlife’s list of flowers it is OK to pick – I’m not sure why really because this is the third (out of three so far) of the ‘Plantlife 12 pickable species’ that I get in my garden! But I’ve always put Primroses on a bit of…