Friday 15 May 2009

Discover wildflowers....

Discover Wildflowers! They are more important to you than you think.
Wildflowers are everywhere; sometimes we take them for granted or treat them as weeds but they have always played an important part in our lives. They were a vital medicine chest, food source and household essential for our ancestors and now modern medicine is discovering cures for serious illnesses like cancer in our hedgerows and woods.
Plants give a place its character and distinctiveness, different groups of plants growing better in different places. They also determine which animals you are likely to find as they are the start of the food chain and many animals only feed on one or two different species of plant.These may well be linked to just one habitat.

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