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problem: the hazel (unlike many plants) cannot fertilise itself, so needs to find another tree. How to disseminate pollen from one tree to another? Many plants use insects — bees, wasps, moths, butterflies or ants — while others draw on the services

Ireland and Cumbria. This is a slightly gory video of the demise of a wasp*.Butterworts appeared in this country by accident as they were brought back by Victorian plant hunters in shipments of more obviously beautiful plants like orchids. They have

Over the past few weeks we have been wrapped up in a flurry of tree planting. It is the very tail end of the planting season and, as I am mostly pretty disorganised, things that should have been done earlier in the season are being done now