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Our blog brings the community closer to nature with stories that spotlight local plants and wildlife. Each post offers simple ways to notice, appreciate and care for the natural world right on our doorstep.

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  • SPECIES SPOTLIGHT: TOOTHWORT

    One of the more mysterious and magical plants to appear in early spring is the toothwort. Pale, strange looking, and easy to overlook, this woodland plant doesn’t behave like most others, it has no green leaves, doesn’t photosynthesise, and spends most of its life hidden underground. Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria) is a native parasitic plant that

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