Finding Beauty – A Year of Nature Outside Your Door.

Well they are here and I did say in my blog last week that I’d be jumping with joy and I am. The books have arrived back from the printers just in the nick of time for Christmas, but like my dog are for any and all times of the year! ‘Finding Beauty – A…

Blackthorn

I’ve been waiting patiently for weeks now for ‘my’ blackthorn to burst into flowers. I’ve seen swathes of its snowy white flowers lining the banks of fields and road verges in sheltered spots. It’s linked with the Spring Equinox which we had 2 weeks ago as that’s when the flowers usually start, and also with…

HERB OF THE MONTH: April

April – It has to be Wild Garlic, Ramsons or to be precise Allium ursinum. There’s no mistaking the scent of wild garlic carpeting the woodland floor in luxurious, verdant green. There’s plenty of it under the trees along the old railway line where I walk everyday with my dog. They are emerging earlier and…