(Almost everywhere you look you will find wild flowers growing - along the roadside, in the fields and meadows, even sprouting out of concrete pavements and other unlikely places. Look at any patch of barren land - it might be wasteland just levelled for a building site or a patch of common charred after a fire - and you will notice that plants are some of the first colonizers. Long before other living things move in, plants brighten up these open spaces with their colourful flowers. In this Nature Notebook you can read about some of the common plants that you might see. Every time you spot one, tick the special box by its picture or fill in the notebook section. You"ll also find some interesting projects to do and panels to fill in with your own nature notes. So whenever you"re out and about, keep your Notebook with you and write down what you see)