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LONG SPIKES of sweet scented buddleia blossom are a major attraction for butterflies and bees – provided you have butterflies and bees in the first place, of course.

OVERNIGHT RAIN had raised the level of the River North Esk and freshened up the water   Late afternoon on Tuesday the dogs and I were walking downriver towards the Gannochy Bridge and the Blue Door   There's little to distinguish it from any other blue door, stuck as it is in the wall, just on the other side of the bridge at the start of the Burn Estate.

OUR SQUIRRELS are able to think  out of the box'   I've set up three feeding stations outside the kitchen window and we have endless pleasure watching them hanging upside down and guzzling on the peanuts, or sitting on the top of the poles with their bushy tails curved over their backs like a rusty question mark.

HAREBELL OR bluebell – which one is the truly representative flower of Scotland?   The thistle of course is our national emblem, the embodiment of our nationhood – what it is to be Scottish   But there's another side to us, what it feels to be Scottish – the imaginative and sensitive side to our Scottishness.