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Friday, May 2, 2008
NATURE NOTES
IT IS the time of year when thoughts turn to gardening, and garden centres and nurseries become first choice for a Sunday outing.
It is easy to buy, from almost anywhere, packets of wild flower seeds in various different mixes to fit supposedly different habitats, but how ‘wild’ are they really, and how beneficial are they?
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Friday, March 7, 2008
NATURE NOTES
By Helen Slade
of the IW Natural History and Archeology Society
TO APPRECIATE the natural beauty of our countryside and to visit sites and monuments of interest, it is necessary — and desirable — to be...
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Friday, February 1, 2008
NATURE NOTES
By Helen Slade
of the IW Natural History and Archaeological Society
IT IS not only living plants and animals which occupy the minds of members of the IW Natural History and Archaeological...
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Friday, January 4, 2008
NATURE NOTES
I WAS delighted to hear recently that a friend who lives in Newport has a family of hedgehogs living beneath a clump of pampas grass in her garden.
It prompted me to recall that hedgehogs...
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Friday, December 7, 2007
NATURE NOTES
IW Natural History and Archaeological Society
EVERY Christmas we gaily display wreaths and other arrangements of holly, ivy and mistletoe, but do you ever wonder why?
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Friday, November 2, 2007
NOT quite plants, but surely not animals either?
Although on a recent fungus foray we learned that some actually move about, settling only to set spores. But these slime moulds, as they are known, are probably not most people’s idea of fungi.
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Friday, October 5, 2007
NATURE NOTES
OUR ‘low-maintenance’ garden has, because of the weather this summer, become a garden of no-maintenance and, consequently, rather a jungle.
Hidden beneath the vegetation is a small pond...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
NATURE NOTES
THE wasp spider, Argiope bruennichi, is one of our most striking and easily identified spiders.
It is the female we notice, often sitting in the middle of her orb-type web ...
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