Eye - 24 August 2012

From flora to fiction

by Eye 24th August 2012

Friendly flora

Thank you to budding botanist Malcolm Edmunds, of Preston Meeting, who wrote in to help us widen our familiarity with flora: ‘The caption to the attractive cover of the Friend (10 August) says it is a Gladiolus, but it is actually a very different plant belonging to the Mallow family, almost certainly a hollyhock.’