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Fairy Glen

Don’t Be Afraid of the Shade

Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire! I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon’s sphere;

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I Still Believe In Magic

Glowing wand-like in a shaft of light that pierced through to the depths of forgotten Dingle in a Shropshire woodland, I caught sight of this

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A Druids Tale

In the hedgerow now take a close Look! A Druids TaleNine hazel trees grew around a sacred pool, dropping nuts into the water to be

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Gorse

Furze – Ulex Europaeus, Ulex Galli, Ulex Minor Already in flower now, ablaze upon the moorland. One of my favourite wild reminders the season has

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Magical Lichen

British soldiers lichen (Cladonia cristatella). Found this flowing lichen today on a walk in the Ellan valley growing with the Moss on the moor, I

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LET’S SAVE OUR SACRED IVY

Ivy (Hedera helix) Let’s save our sacred Ivy, I’m often requested to remove the dreaded Ivy from walls and trees in customers gardens, their claim

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Deadly Spots

Six-spot Burnet mothScientific name: Zygaena filipendulae The six-spot burnet is a medium-sized, day-flying moth, commonly found in grasslands, woodland rides and where the caterpillars feed

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Snow Drop Magic

“At the beginning of all things when life was new, the Snow sought to borrow a colour. The flowers were much admired by all the

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Poison beauty

Spindle (Euonymus europaea) In you, hedgerow now don’t mistake this poison beauty its always been one of my favourites ,its somthing to do with those

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Harvest

I have loved well this land that I have tilled:I have grown old tunning the green years under,In the long straight furrow, where the quick

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Seed Collecting

Aquilegia vulgaris common columbine It’s an excellent time to collect seed now, while the weather is dry, I was given these beautiful columbines from ‘Bobs

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