Where have all the flowers gone?
A butterfly flaps its wings in New Mexico and causes a hurricane in China, or so the introduction to Chaos Theory goes. Or, to put it another way, a mainland
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Book Review: Flowers in the Field, Faith Anstey
The small learned society is a mainstay of British amateur natural history. Continuing the work of the gentleman-naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, amateur enthusiasts today still provide a
Read moreThe Telegraph confuses rare flowers with buttonholes
Oh deary deary. I’ve tried to hold off, really, I have. I’ve been stifling back a really moany post about newspapers’ punctuation and italicisation of scientific names. Really, it’s for
Read moreYou bad plant!!
The Ranger obtained a little Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) plant from a local garden centre to see if it would catch the fruitflies that tend to buzz around in his
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