AT THE RISK of stating the obvious, it has been a difficult couple of years. Very few of us have remained unaffected by the consequences of Covid-19; many people have lost loved ones or livelihoods. Certainly, for most of 2020, my normal day-job of filming British wildlife for The One Show all but disappeared, and my daily wild fix became limited to short walks close to home.
Initially, with my wings clipped, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was missing out, but the simple act of taking my foot off the accelerator meant that I suddenly had time to appreciate the botanical wonders just beyond my doorstep. Lockdown, as it happened, came with the silver lining of reigniting my long-buried passion for plants, turning what was the worst of times into some of the very best of times.
In those early days of confinement, as I paused to identify and observe the forgetme-nots and violets I’d been blithely walking past for years, I was hit with a preposterous notion. Could I attempt to see 1,000 wild plants in just 12 months? Once the idea had taken root, I couldn’t stop it from growing. And so it was that 2021 became my big botanical year.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 2023 من BBC Wildlife.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 2023 من BBC Wildlife.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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