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Meadow clary secure in Gloucestershire

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January 4, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Once common across southern England, meadow clary, a rare blue wild flower, had almost disappeared from the Gloucestershire countryside. However, …
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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bill Powell, Coarse Grass, Condi, Condit, Conservation Partnership, Conservationists, Cotswolds, Dense Vegetation, Extinction, Farm Meadows, Farmer Bill, Fawkes, Gloucestershire Countryside, Nailsworth, Nature Reserve, Plantlife, Rescue Attempt, Southern England, Tim Wilkins, Wild Flower, Wildlife Trust


Juniper seedlings preserve plant in England

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A conservation project to save the juniper bush in lowland England appears to be working, according to the charity Plantlife. Three hundred juniper …
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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Ancient Landscape, Chalk, Conservation Project, Dutch Words, English Counties, Extinction, Fungus, Germination, Grassland, Hungry Rabbits, Juniper Bush, Juniper Bushes, Last Ice Age, Limestone, Lowland England, Period Of Decline, Recovery Coordinator, Seedlings, Southern England, Species Recovery, Tim Wilkins, Viable Seed


Heritage Seeds

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November 4, 2008 by admin Leave a Comment
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A recent article by Garden Organic focuses on heritage seed and the need to preserve our gardening heritage. In 1973 the Seed (National List of …
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Filed Under: Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Brink, Climate Varieties, Crops, Different Times, Extinction, First Response, Gardeners, Gluts, Growing Library, Herbs, Heritage Seed Library, Heritage Seeds, Heritage Varieties, Human Nature, Kokopelli, Recent Article, Seed Producers, Small Quantities, Textures, Traditional Distribution Methods, Veg


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