She doesn't miss much. The twinflower, she explains, is an unassuming little creeper with an illustrious scientific name - "Linnaea borealis," after Carl Linnaeus, the 18th century "father of ...

I had always accepted this as gospel until last August, when, while exploring a wood on Speyside for Linnaea borealis, I came upon a little colony of “lady's tresses.” Since then I have ...