In the latest episode of the #wildflowerhour podcast, Isabel Hardman talks to botanist Joshua Styles about his love of dandelions and the many different species you can find growing wild in Britain and Ireland. She also hears from author Jon Dunn about lockdown botany, and we're off on another wild flower hunt with Leif Bersweden.

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The #wildflowerhour podcast finds out how you can identify orchids even when they're not in flower, hears more about your favourite plants, learns about a proper wild flower lawn, and goes on another one of those walks with Leif Bersweden. Presented by Isabel Hardman.

 

Britain's Orchids: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691177618/britains-orchids

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Isabel Hardman presents the first in a new series of the Wild Flower (Half) Hour podcast. She meets Sophie Leguil, who runs the More Than Weeds campaign, and hears from BBC presenters Chris Packham and Martha Kearney about their favourite wild flowers. Rebecca Wheeler introduces the challenges for the next two weeks of #wildflowerhour and Leif Bersweden takes us on a wild flower walk. 

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The latest episode of the #wildflowerhour podcast includes an interview with a man who has created a wild orchid haven in his back garden, a look at Orchid Hunter Leif Bersweden's adventures studying orchids for his PhD, and another one of those lovely readings from Zoe Devlin's book, Blooming Marvellous.

Isabel Hardman visits Hutton Roof, a massive limestone pavement in Cumbria, with Bryan Yorke, who studies the rare orchids that grow there.

In the latest #wildflowerhour podcast, Isabel Hardman challenges Dr Jonathan Mitchley of the University of Reading to explain why plants are important and even cool. We also hear a reading from Zoe Devlin's lovely book, Blooming Marvellous, and find out about why Dom Price from the Species Recovery Trust likes to lie down in fields and stare at ants.

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In the latest episode of the #wildflowerhour podcast, we find out about Moira O’Donnell’s love of violets, discover one of your favourite nature reserves, and learn about the fight to save Oxfordshire’s endangered plants.

On the latest episode of the #wildflowerhour podcast, Isabel Hardman interviews Professor Mick Crawley about the English Bluebell and the threat from its Spanish relative and hears about the great botanical fraud of the 20th century from the journalist who revealed the full story, Karl Sabbagh. 

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#wildflowerhour members share their favourite nature reserves for wild flower hunting.