Writing tagged: ‘the Moor’

  • The nearly dead tree

    The nearly dead tree

    Each spring, I visit a particular corner of the Moor to check if an old friend has managed to survive another winter.

  • Exploring my damp patch

    Exploring my damp patch

    For many years, I’ve sought in vain for a particular wild flower on my local patch—a plant that inspired Charles Darwin to write an entire book on insectivorous plants.

  • Finding new ways

    Finding new ways

    How plants can end up in the strangest of places.

  • The Thomas Browne Affair

    The Thomas Browne Affair

    On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.