Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mid-June on Vestvågøy island, Lofoten, in northernmost Norway, and the verge is flecked with magenta ...

snow buttercup and Arctic cotton grass. Below, the midnight sun glances off Mærvollspollen, a tributary of the Steinsfjord, from which rise boulder-strewn scarps and scratches of scree. But come ...

Botanists may prefer to call it cotton grass, not bog cotton, but to me, this beautiful Irish wildflower will always be bog cotton. Now, I’m not going to share a litany of scientific knowledge ...