You don’t need to look very far to find something remarkable. I’d just opened the front window to get some fresh air when I saw the little yellow flower growing from the side of the house. A buttercup? A closer look revealed wood avens. As its name suggests, wood avens is a plant that grows in open woodland or along forest edges and hedges, but it’s equally at home in shady gardens. Indeed, in medieval times it was a treasured member of the herb garden.