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Plantlife, the charity which looks out for wild flowers, says it’s OK to pick a few common, widespread and pretty flowers.  Here are eight things to remember when picking any of the 12 wild flowers on the Plantlife list. Make sure you’re not trespassing on any private land. Never pick flowers from nature reserves or…

Plantlife, the charity which speaks up for the nation’s plants, says that it’s OK to pick these 12 common flowers (provided you don’t go beserk in the woods and fields of the UK). Can you match the names to the pictures? If not, you’d better do some research before you pick anything!

Plantlife, the wild plant conservation charity, is telling us it’s OK to pick flowers – some flowers anyway!  Good for them!  I trust they will be on the Today programme this morning on Radio 4 – it would be criminal if they are not. Here is their press release and I’ll be featuring the flowers…

  We had a good bottle of Malbec before attending a performance by comedian Mark Steel at the  Derngate Theatre in Northampton a couple of weeks ago.  We didn’t just have the Malbec – we had it with Pizza etc in the nearby Pizza Express. I’ve been wondering ever since why an Argentinian wine has…