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    On the decline

    Apr 26, 2022 2 minutes

    ’VE been reading about gipsy rose in February’s , a magazine that covers all aspects of British natural history and conservation. The evocative name gipsy rose conjures up a fortune teller in a tent to me, but it’s actually one of the common names for the native wildflower field scabious (). Other names, listed by Geoffrey Grigson in , include blue buttons, blue bonnet and cardies. It’s found

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