Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant ... growing in the water near the edge of a pond, which is where Hill believes it grew.

The pinkish-flowered plant, known as grass-poly, was found growing on the banks of an old farmland pond in Norfolk. The mystery species "came back from the dead" after seeds submerged in the mud ...

The nine-year project found rare plants almost trebled, while species that had gone extinct in the area returned Digging ponds in the countryside can deliver "unprecedented" gains for nature ...