Special Interest Morning, extra fee
At Rutland Water Nature Reserve in Egleton, Oakham LE15 8BT
Apart from the pear tree in which sat the partridge, there are no plants in the 12 days of Christmas according to the folk song. Sadly, even that reference is erroneous, because partridges are ground dwelling birds. And yet at Christmas we are surrounded by plants. This talk puts the record straight and rewrites the zoocentric song replacing partridges with poinsettias, and maids with mistletoe.
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Image: Euphorbia pulcherrima, Yellow and Red in Mexico. Carlos Valenzuela, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0