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7 April 2002 |
Oscar Wilde was wont to lie among “the strange, snake-spotted fritillaries” |
Snakesheads in the meadows |
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The host of golden daffodils |
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6 April 2002 |
Prof Meyer said they had located the gene which turns on and off hormones which instruct a plant to start dying |
Gene could stop plants from wilting |
| ... under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, digging up wild bluebells is illegal |
Visitors warned not to touch wild flowers |
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One man's war on the killer in our waterways |
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| For vascular plants, the cover on climbed plateau and talus was roughly 60% of that on unclimbed areas |
Rock climbing harms cliff ecosystems |
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5 April 2002 |
"There is no realistic way of getting rid of it from the three lakes" |
Lake District battles a killer from the suburbs |
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31 March 2002 |
New Zealand pigmyweed is already causing damage in Bassenthwaite Lake, Coniston Water and Derwentwater |
Alien invader threatens water wildlife |
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27 March 2002 |
More than £3m has been spent in a fruitless attempt to stem its progress |
£3m fight to kill pond invader |
| ... it has developed a taste for domestic geraniums |
Foreign invader poised to cross Channel and munch our flowers |
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24 March 2002 |
From early March for about a month, the eight-acre field is a splendid sight, with purple and white crocus heads |
A spectacular 200-year-old mystery |
| The UK’s bluebell woods are of international importance |
Blessed's blooming bluebells |
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23 March 2002 |
... a Douglas Fir in the Highlands is officially the tallest in the UK |
Tallest tree in UK moves from Birnam Wood |
| ... the weed has suffered somewhat of a setback in its resurgence |
Broads weed row rumbles on |
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| This seed discounting is costly if selfed offspring are less viable than their outcrossed counterparts |
Genetic cost of reproductive assurance in a self-fertilizing plant |
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22 March 2002 |
The gorge is home to some of the rarest plants in the country, including Bristol rock cress |
Extreme gardening in Gorge |
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20 March 2002 |
Although the wild species, Narcissus
pseudonarcissis, is not threatened, it is already showing signs of
turning into a hybrid
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Hybrid invader threatens Wordsworth heritage |
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19 March 2002 |
"... this Nationally Scarce species has seriously declined in Cornwall" |
Illecebrum verticillatum on the decline? |
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The ambitious project has boasted nearly two million
visitors from around the world
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Eden Project celebrates first birthday |
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| Every time you use a peat-based compost in the garden, you are deliberately participating in the destruction of a non-renewable environment that sustains some of our most beautiful plant and animal life |
For peat's sake |
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18 March 2002 |
... the cumulative effect of his weird and wonderful botanic lore, beautifully written, andunderpinned with lightly borne science, is an unusual overview of the interdependence and interconnectedness of nature |
Review: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan |
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17 March 2002 |
"There is no reason why resistance in other broad-leaved weeds won’t arise" |
Poppy weedkiller worry |
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16 March 2002 |
... it suggests that some forests of North America and Europe are getting more nitrogen than they can use |
Forests may be products of pollution |
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15 March 2002 |
Rosemary enhanced the long-term memory by around 15 per cent |
Feeling forgetful? Shakespeare had a herb for it |
| Vandalism, land development, neglect and plain ignorance are to blame for the loss of native yews |
Campaign to save ancient Scots yews |
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