Professor Hedgehog's Journal

Acting on information received (thanks, M!), I went along a stretch of the cycle path alongside the Cambridge busway today to photograph a (relatively) rare plant now in flower. Rather than (as in my former life) concentrating on pedalling along this well-used route, I was walking and looking at the bone-dry gravel strip – in places less than a foot wide – between the edge of the tarmac and the various bits of fencing and boarding separating the path from the buildings beyond, and was surprised at the enormous diversity of the plants thriving in this apparently inhospitable terrain. Continue reading →