chalk streams are spectacular refuges for insect and aquatic plants and are the habitat we dream of.

Dorset Plant Heritage will be hosting a talk by Dr Ken Thompson on Wildlife Gardening. No need for Nettles. Thursday 12th February. In Dorford Centre Dorchester. All welcome.

Dorset Local Plan is being shaped by Westminster governments unrealistic housing demands. Rural counties with multiple SSI AONB SAC and RAMSAR sites are restricted in options so we will be losing farmland much of it Greenbelt to these houses if they ever get built.

Long dry summer but now its broken with good strong rain. Those fungi friends should start showing themselves soon.

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Hartland moor is open and lovely.

We are getting obsessive news about Donald Trump which is panicking a lot of people. There are other problems and wars in Africa and Asia and Eastern Europe. Calm down and think deep.
Or think shallow and enjoy the world we have and work towards keeping it for our next generations.

This continual rain is making rural life very trying. Roads flood then drain but guessing the depth of the puddles is an art.

Fish&chips supper

Looking forward to daffodils to go with my honeysuckle

Love to see some blue sky. It has been dull.mist/low cloud for days now. The low light dampens all joy.

Woodland fungi under a fallen log

Cosy

How can people hate our landscape so much they do this?

Wonderful post box topper. Amazing patience and skill locally.

Are there any Plant Lovers on here. Must be more than cats.

Learn to escape negative people - divorce is the legal option.

If you are good with Houseplants you feel when it is stressed and alter the care regime to improve its life. Shouldn't we do the same with people.?

I wake up screaming to go through my to- do list. It's not just writers
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Snow in Dorset. Not much , the gritters out on the road but folk keep moaning