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Author: Sophie

Botanist, ecologist, conservationist, frustrated gardener, diving enthusiast & chocolate addict. Half-Frenchie, half-Londoner.

June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

Goodbye means goodbye

August 11, 2020October 22, 2020

Garden grief: when yellow becomes the new green

September 23, 2019October 22, 2020

How brown is “brownfield” land?

July 31, 2019April 11, 2022

Warren Farm and the value of nature

July 18, 2019March 18, 2020

When is a wildflower not a wildflower…

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019

Andalucia in Spring, Part 2: Grazalema and the Sierra del Pinar

April 26, 2019October 22, 2020

Andalucia in Spring, Part 1 (of many): on the hunt for wild daffodils

A day in Malaga: beyond the Costa del Sol

November 26, 2018September 2, 2019

The many colours of winter

October 16, 2018October 22, 2020

Alpines treasures in the Swiss Jura mountains

October 11, 2018October 22, 2020

When old and new go together in Malmö, Sweden

May 17, 2018October 22, 2020

First there were rocks…

November 27, 2017

Danish day

November 15, 2017October 22, 2020

A wordless celebration of autumn

March 2, 2017March 2, 2017

Borneo memories – Kinabatangan river

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Back from a cold and wet, but flower-filled week of @naturetrek_wildlife_holidays trip to the Vercors in SE France. The meadows were looking glorious, with so much colour 🌸🌻🪻🌼🏵️

In Bretagne, must be cider time! Nice tasting @cidreriedugolfe (including that 40 year old bottle!) 🍻

Marais salants #ilederé 🧂

Cute ring 💍Meloe violaceus (Violet Oil Beetle, Méloé violet)

Fluffy and cheerful, must be Prunus 'Kanzan' time 🌸

Pulsatilla 'Rote Glocke' ('Red Bells') brightening my alpine trough. When the flowers wilt, they turn upwards, revealing the stamens 🌸

Luxembourg City looking perfect in the spring sun 💚

Orange tip butterfly looking so perfect on a daffodil stem 🦋💛

Super excited to share pictures of this rare daffodil hybrid found on my latest @naturetrek_wildlife_holidays tour in Southern Spain, N. x libarensis. This is a cross between a rock jonquil N. cuatrecasasii and a paperwhite, N. papyraceus (I've added pics of both parents). It was described in 1995, from the exact valley where we found it. It has intermediate characters (pale yellow flowers, larger, wider leaves and flowers between its parents). 😍

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Goodbye means goodbye
Garden grief: when yellow becomes the new green
How brown is “brownfield” land?
Warren Farm and the value of nature
When is a wildflower not a wildflower…

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