Celebrate with fireworks and this free embroidery pattern
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Read MoreStitch this branch pattern with clusters of blossoms. It’s flexibility allows you customise it by adding additional features such as leaves or birds.
Read MoreHyacinths are common indoor displays around Christmas, but if you plant them outside they stat flowering in the spring.
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Read MoreIn the autumn the rosehip is one of the final pops of colour dotting the hedgerows.
Since my trip to Scotland last year I’ve wanted to create a heather embroidery pattern.
I have a glorious pot of purple pansies on my patio and their purple faces give me such joy each time I glimpse them.
I love the delicious smell of sweet peas wafting towards my nose as I walk past them.
In real life scarlet pimpernel flowers are tiny, good luck spotting them out in the wild!
As we move from spring into summer the tall delights of cow parsley start to appear towering above other plants with their spray of white flower.
For a long time, the only thing that grew successfully in my London garden (apart from weeds) was a lilac bush. The spears of purple and gorgeous smell on a sunny spring day were a delight.
The nature reserve near me has a beautiful carpet of wood anemone appear each year. March is a little early for them in the North East but further south they will start appearing during March.
Yellow catkins are a sure sign that the world around us is awakening from a winter hibernation.
Winter Jasmine is one of the first plants to flower at the start of each year while everything else still lies dormant.
Mistletoe is so associated with Christmas but have you ever seen it out in the wild? It's most common in western England and parts of Wales. It grows as a hemiparasite on trees and should be easy to spot once the trees have lost their leaves.
If you walk across a field, down a steep set of steps you reach a nature reserve with fens and open water edged by bulrushes.