Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 29 July 2020

  • Fireweed

    Fireweed

    The pinks of the Rosebay Willowherb are a common sight in summer but often overlooked. It’s a coloniser plant traditionally the first to grow after a fire, hence the folk name Fireweed. But it has not always so. The Georgians considered it quite a rarity and regarded it as a garden plant. Even as late…