Editor’s note: Landscape Confidential is an occasional column by Audrey Clark, a curatorial assistant at the Pringle Herbarium at the University of Vermont. The forest floor is shady, cool and ...
There are three main British soils; podzol, brown earth and gley. Podzols are easily recognisable by their distinct layers or horizons. A grey or light-coloured 'E' horizon is the result of severe ...