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254. Discover the magic of weeds with artist Anna Chapman Parker

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Join an unusual Plodcast adventure in an urban car park with artist and author Anna Chapman Parker. Anna spent a year watching and drawing the wildflowers in her local town – plants normally dismissed as weeds. And she created an astonishing diary of overlooked beauty.

Here she take Plodcast host Fergus Collins an urban journey of discovery to open our eyes to the magic in every crack in the pavement.

Anna's book: Understorey: A Year Among Weeds is published by Duckworth Books.

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