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I've commented before that I don't think 'wildlife' should refer to animals only. It should also include plants, even though most wild plants are referred to as weeds when they turn up in gardens. I wonder what the owner of the garden in East

-leaved lime tree in the middle of the gardens. I hardly ever see this curious semi-parasitic plant, it is decidedly scarce in London and the south-east. Although widespread in central and western England, there is a big hole in the distribution map around

, finding a fasciated marsh thistle, Cirsium palustre, somewhere in the flood plain of the River Cuckmere, near Alfriston, Sussex, when I was aged 12 or 13. I thought I had found some exciting new plant, or strange metamorphic phenomenon. I was amazed how