Added
- Regions: every region page now lists its five most-wanted invasive plants, ranked by the local experts' rating, then by how often each has been seen wild. Each has its own page: three ways to recognise it, and real photos.
- Each most-wanted plant's page now says how to get rid of it for good, by hand: the root piece that resprouts, the stump that suckers, and what to do with what you pulled.
- Each tip on those pages now leads with a small picture — a leaf, a berry, a hand pulling, a spade digging — so you can find the one you need at a glance.
- Plants & Vegetables: the plant list has a fourth card at the top, for the question that stops people between choosing a native and digging the hole — will it bring pests?
- Ireland is on the map — 67 native plants for the whole island, north and south, from the oaks of Killarney to the gorse on a headland and the wild thyme in a Burren gryke.
- Wildlife: the marsh fritillary, the cryptic wood white and the peacock butterfly have joined the roster. The first is Ireland's only protected insect, and it lays on one plant — devil's-bit scabious — and nothing else.
- Mediterranean France has thirteen more natives, chosen for the caterpillars they feed: hawthorn, sheep's sorrel, sheep's fescue, white wormwood, scorpion broom, hazel, almond-leaved pear, heather, hairy broom, bird's-foot trefoil, the evergreen rose, the service tree and red clover.
- Planting: heather flowers from July into October, the emptiest stretch of the southern year for nectar — everything else has shut down for the drought. That is why it is on the Mediterranean list.
- Planting: eight more Pacific Northwest natives — Sitka spruce, shore pine, wild rhododendron, fringecup, sweet coltsfoot, western skunk cabbage, vanilla leaf and stream violet. Sweet coltsfoot flowers in February, on bare stalks, when a bumblebee queen has almost nothing else to feed on.
Fixed
- Plants: on a phone, the last card you tapped at the top of the plant list stayed lit up with its link underlined, as though a mouse were resting on it. It lets go now.