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Wild West YorkshireRecent pages from Richard Bell’s award-winning nature diary, now in its tenth year |
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American Land-cress: Just a half metre square of this easy-to-grow alternative to watercress can supply you with peppery-tasting leaves for sandwiches and salads right through the year. |
Plug Plants Propagating your own plants is the green way to grow your vegetables but to give us a head start at this time of year we've gone for plug plants; instant cabbages and lollo rosso! |
Plants by the Pond: Are you so busy that you feel you never have time to draw? Do you just snatch the odd sketch during the odd idle moment? It's probably time for drastic action: on a real spring morning (that's a change!) I gave myself a few hours to draw by the pond. |
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‘Richard Bell could be another David Attenborough, with his tales of astonishing plants and carefully observed wildlife’ Dalesman ‘well-observed watercolours of plants and bird and pond life through the year’ Sunday Times ‘wonderful pictures of everyday things’ Daily Telegraph ‘A highly-readable narrative gives a personal slant to his observations’ Best of British Magazine
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