nature Archives - British Slang Dictionary

Vegetation and Plants

Almost nothing in the British landscape is natural. After the last ice age Britain would have been covered in wildwood;…

British wildlife is small, gentle and almost entirely harmless. There is nothing in the countryside that can seriously hurt you,…

Britain has four distinct seasons, none of them extreme. What genuinely surprises visitors is not the temperature but the light…

Britain has fifteen national parks — ten in England, three in Wales and two in Scotland — and they work…

The British countryside is not wilderness. Almost every acre of it has been cleared, drained, walled, grazed or ploughed at…