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Sunflowers turn their heads to follow the sun. One of the most striking sights in the countryside is a field of yellow sunflowers whose...

BBC Radio 4 Start the Week "Bees - Culture and Survival" Start the Week is one of my favourite podcasts... the topics are so varied and...

The February flower is the Violet. Right on cue, this week I saw the first of my violets flowering in my front porch. Barbara Johnson...

One of my first outings of 2024 was to visit Enchanted Rock, a famous geological feature of the Texas Hill Country. It is a massive dome...

While considering garnets and pomegranates, and how the names are derived from the Latin granatus, it made me think about the seeds we...