He wanders in the nearby hills and woods to gather cuckooflowers, cowslips, stitchworts, elder flowers and of course nettles. |
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The two acre garden is fresh with scent and the colours of cowslips and foxgloves. |
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Mr Slaney said cowslips and primroses have flourished and a pond has developed naturally and become a haven for wildlife. |
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Then I noticed a small clump of cowslips growing wild at the foot of a tree by the lake. |
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One section of the garden is devoted to wildflowers, bluebells nodding gently in the breeze, surrounded by cowslips and violets. |
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We rounded the corner and there, in the sunlight, was a vision of massed giant Tibetan cowslips, a beautiful saffron. |
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Every year the fields and banks near Down House are dotted with cowslips and primroses, all members of the genus Primula. |
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And there's another fine view of the village from above if you walk up the hillside nearby and sit among the cowslips. |
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If you're lucky you might just see some cowslips and the last of the snow drops. |
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True to Chris's intentions, the two acre garden is fresh with scent and the colours of cowslips and foxgloves, daffodils and dandelions. |
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The land was quiet and pleasant, with teasels, cowslips, bluebells, and dark soil ridged for spuds or glowing with oil seed rape. |
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We have no soldanellas and auriculas, and Alpine cowslips, no brilliant gentians and anemones. |
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In my garden I am happily growing the common primrose, cultivated cowslips, and primulas. |
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Primroses, cowslips and swallows are everywhere and the softening in the weather is a sure sign that brighter and warmer days are near. |
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We received data on places around the UK where cowslips, primroses and false oxlips are growing. |
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In spring, the pale, delicate yellows of stiff cowslips are succeeded by the stronger chromes of sprawling birdsfoot trefoil and buttercup. |
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Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places or where they have been carefully preserved. |
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The Cowslip Count took place in the spring of 2000 and we received data on over 2,000 places around the UK where cowslips, primroses and false oxlips are growing. |
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Other partners for pink daffodils include lavender cowslips. |
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These include cowslips, knapweeds, meadow buttercups, cranesbills and orchids. |
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Other species that can be seen in the area are wood anemones, violets, primroses, purple orchids, cowslips and herb paris. |
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Most will feature the traditional meadow favourites like poppies, foxgloves, buttercups, cornflowers, toadflax, primroses, daisies, cowslips and the like. |
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In the spring it was full of cowslips and primroses, dame's violet and bistort, in summer, yarrow and ragwort and the hard purple heads of knapweed. |
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Our future king harrumphed of 'working with nature' and 'country walks where one thinks so much', but I heard not a mention of plans to pour concrete over cowslips. |
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Buy seed mixes that contain ox-eye daisies, yarrow, harebells, birdsfoot trefoil, cowslips, lady's bedstraw, betony, yellow rattle and others for waving drifts of colour. |
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