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Outdoor Daily III

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 26/02/202127/02/2021
  • Appreciation

This feels like full circle: lesser celandine is back in flower. Back in April, during the first lockdown I wrote about this bright little flower before…. …and we’re still in lockdown. It feels like a […]

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Outdoor Daily III

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 20/02/2021
  • nature

Violets are starting to flower in Cornwall. Looking more closely, I’m intrigued by the change of colour pattern on their leaves as they mature with more daylight hours.

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 18/07/202018/07/2020
  • Appreciation

Stop. Look. See! That’s been my take on local lockdown walks with my dog T’isker, even though they are quite energetic. The shape of this hedgerow flower, normally blurred by 30 mph and a car […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 16/07/202017/07/2020
  • Appreciation

It’s good to see Purple Loosestrife in the wild, among reeds and Meadowsweet in a ditch along the bank of the Tamar estuary. It is one of the plants I introduced to my wildlife pond […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 15/07/202015/07/2020
  • agriculture

Ragwort! Its flowers are pretty but it contains, as many plants, some toxins that deter grazing. To animals this can be a problem when consumed in hay, but fresh it tastes too bad to be […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 10/07/2020
  • Appreciation

Seeds of a thisle ready to take off on an adventure into the unknown. hope – flexibility – optimism – acceptance – risk – appreciation – opportunity – resilience – smile! I’m ready to travel […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 04/07/202004/07/2020
  • Appreciation

The Cornish hedges near my house received their summer trim this week. It’s looking a little bleak, with all the ‘organised chaos’ of wild flowers reduced to stumps. However, the trim is necessary to keep […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 12/06/202012/06/2020
  • Appreciation

Some butterflies just flutter by, always on the move. For a while, this small tortoiseshell was content with where it settled. In German, we call this flower ‘Flammende Liebe’ – ‘flaming love’, and it is […]

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 07/06/202007/06/2020
  • Appreciation

Mellow yellow! After blue, white and pink, the yellow has returned to our lanes. Not in form of daffodils, of course, but a range of shapes and sizes…

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Outdoor Daily

  • by Charlotte Braungardt
  • Posted on 17/05/202017/05/2020
  • Appreciation

Are your eyes, too, drawn to the pink, blue and yellow among the green and drifts of white in the hedgerows? Often I see the mist of the tiny white flowers of Hedge Parsley and […]

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