Wild garlic – Ransoms/Allium ursinum The flowers are starting to come up on the garlic now, which will help with identification The flowers seen as clusters of snow-white, star shaped flowers in spring and early summer, which grow on long stalks above broad, bright green leaves. See February for description for leaves etc. Flowers can [...]
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May Foraging
Posted in Bugle, Chicken of the woods, Dryads saddle, Edible fungi, Edible seashore, Elderflower, Forage, Herbs, Marsh Samphire, Oregano, Ramsons, Recipes, Sea Beet, Sea Kale, Water Mint, wild fungi, Wild garlic, Wild Marjoram, Wild Plants, Wild Strawberries on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
February foraging
Posted in Forage, Garlic mustard, Jack by the hedge, Plants, Ramsons, Recipes, Wild garlic, Wild Plants on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jack by the hedge/Garlic mustard -Alliaria petiolata We often come across Jack by the hedge on edges of woods and on hedge banks. its height 30-90cm leaves a fresh bright and green in colour and slightly jagged edge(see photo below), small white flowers appear April to June. When bruised or chopped the leaves give off [...]
