Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Nature shows its mettle at the old steelworks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/country-diary-nature-shows-its-mettle-at-the-old-steelworks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticle/2024/jul/15/country-diary-nature-shows-its-mettle-at-the-old-steelworks</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ravenscraig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ravenscraig</span></a>: A place once of coke ovens and cooling towers is now enlivened with <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/orchids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orchids</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/stonecrop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stonecrop</span></a>, and swards of grasses... once the site of the largest <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/steelworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steelworks</span></a> in Europe, which was closed and demolished more than 30 years ago... Mosses cover cracked concrete foundations, enlivened by beautiful, almost luminescent clumps of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BitingStonecrop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BitingStonecrop</span></a>. Everything is muted by <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birches</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mosses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosses</span></a> and grasses"</p>