DURING the summer weeks of July, most of our adult birds have fallen silent. Tired and dishevelled from the busyness of chick rearing, they begin to moult, replacing old feathers with a new set to ...
Meadowsweet, or Filipendula ulmaria, is a summer British wildflower that foams in ditches and water meadows. In 1897, a chemist called Felix Hoffman discovered salicylic acid could be produced from a ...