Category: Plants

Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

Calaminarian grassland is a rare habitat where plants thrive in soils contaminated by heavy metals. But should these toxic meadows be protected or allowed to fade away?At first, the small purple flowers are hard to spot in the...

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Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

Trust aims to boost small pearl-bordered fritillary colonies in Shropshire Hills by planting 20,000 violets this year for their caterpillars A mass planting of marsh violets across England’s Shropshire Hills is to take...

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New Brexit checks ‘pose existential threat’ to UK fruit and flower growers

Exclusive: NFU warns blanket import checks from April could fuel long delays and damage future cropsThe UK’s fruit and flower growers face an “existential threat” from new post-Brexit border checks that could...

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