Helen Stiles
Published:
4:59 PM April 26, 2021
Dorset heath (Erica ciliaris) our county flower which grows in the heaths around the Isle of Purbeck
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To mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, Plantlife - the conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants and fungi - launched their County Flowers campaign, which invited people to vote for a flower that summed up their county.
Foxglove was the top wild bloom for Leicestershire, Argyll and Monmouthshire
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With 109 counties involved, some had to share their choices: foxglove was the top wild bloom for Leicestershire, Argyll and Monmouthshire, and cowslip was the county flower for Northamptonshire, Surrey and Worcestershire. Thrift, whose pink candy floss blooms are rippling along the shoreline at Hengistbury Head on the cover of Dorset Magazine this month (April), was chosen by the Isles