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Mary Reynolds is a landscape designer from Ireland who gets
her inspiration from patterns and subtle shapes in the landscape
that are deep in our psyches. She creates atmospheric spaces
using our beautiful native plants that allow the spirit of
nature to emerge.
The Defra Biodiversity garden displays the subtle beauty
of our native plants. They support a huge diversity of life
and are perfect for the lazy gardener as they tend to look
after themselves.
The purpose of the garden is to promote awareness of the
importance of biodiversity to a healthy environment. This
has been achieved by combining indigenous plants and sensitive
landscaping. All the plants in the garden are either native
or naturalised British species and the materials used are
all British sourced.
Defra is responsible for promoting the importance of biodiversity
in building a sustainable environment.
But everyone – Government, business and you – has
a direct role to play in managing the environment.
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by Peter Bennett |
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Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we’ve hid our fairy vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O, Human child!
To the waters and the wild,
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can
understand.
Extract from ‘The Stolen
Child’ – W.B. Yeats
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