Both grandparents were farmers and we lived in a farm cottage in the middle of a field. I grew up on the Dorset, Devon and Somerset border. My mother had a book in which she ticked wildflowers off which unfortunately I’ve lost trace of at the moment but it would be interesting to see what she recorded in West Dorset in the 1920s and early 1930s. And her mother before her had a great interest in garden flowers. My mother was very interested in wild flowers, and collected things like Corncockles and Cornflowers which you don’t really see wild today. One of my first plant memories was collecting Herb Robert, or Fox Geranium as it’s also called, bringing it indoors and putting it in a jam jar but being disappointed because the petals dropped so quickly. Roy Vickery talks to me about working in the Natural History Museum herbarium, plant folklore and his advice on learning to identify local flora
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