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September 02, 2022

DEERNESS VALLEY WAY - County Durham, England

- Phil Gates

COUNTRY DIARY

It has begun to feel autumnal. This tree-lined path was strewn with leaves, shed during the heatwave, but enlivened by a blaze of end-of-summer wild flowers: willowherb, knapweed, tansy, ragwort, angelica.

The plant we had come to look for - broad-leaved helleborine - might be more subdued, but has an intoxicating sex life.

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