The tutor shares another tricky field identification. Weatherwise, it’s summer here. Plants are springing up everywhere. The plants growing outside of human influence particularly interest me. A plant I’ve noticed on the edge of a field is, I’ve concluded, hedge …

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The tutor shares an easy find that has been harder to classify. British bluebells, while not native to Vancouver Island, are apparently here. I’ve been noticing them amongst tall grass by the roadside, and even in a hidden corner of …

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‘Tis the season for yard work: let the identification of spontaneous plants continue. I don’t call plants that arrive in the yard, weeds. I call them “spontaneous plants,” since they grow here of their own decision. (Spontaneous plants is not …

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