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Lady’s Smock – Cardamine pratensis
This is Lady’s Smock also known as Cuckoo Flower. It is a meadow and riverside field plant that flowers in the late spring. It is fabulous in salads as it has a tangy, peppery flavour livening up...
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Three acres at Gowanbank
This is an aerial view showing the extent of the land. Google must have taken this 20 years ago as it looks treeless. However, there are very established trees all over the plot and lots of willow!...
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The Recycled House Project
Hopefully, sometime in 2011, we might build our house at Gowanbank. The last miserable, recession years have taught me a few things. One is to try to get out of debt. This doesn’t mean credit cards, as...
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning...
Lady’s Smock (Cardamine pratensis) Quote by Doug Larson Picture by Monica Wilde Follow
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Wychmoss update – Signs of Spring?
It may be mid-winter here at Wychmoss. with cold, crisp frosty days the norm, but Coltsfoot buds are appearing in warmer, sheltered spots on the edge of my woodland to cheer the heart and soothe the...
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Coppicing willow and hazel
Willow coppices Last weekend, mid February, I spent coppicing – cutting back my willow Salix spp. and hazel Corylus avellana. I have a large amount of willow, across several species, that I inherited...
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Coltsfoot in March
Coltsfoot is one of the first spring flowers, after the snowdrops, with the flowers appearing first before the leaves. A wonderful herb for sore throats, it likes poor, dry, stony or gravelly ground,...
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Willow bark medicine ~ natural Aspirin
All the willow that wasn’t coppiced back in February is now covered with pretty furry buds. Cut long stems and put them in a tall base for a dramatic Spring display that lasts a long time. Eventually...
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What’s up in the woodland garden
The last few days of glorious March sunshine have boosted the growth in the woodland garden. This is in a corner of the land always the last to be reached by the winter sunshine to warm the soil. It is...
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Wasps Nest
Three rather beautiful wasps nests. It’s late summer so the wasps have nearly vacated them now and the last few are hanging round the raspberry patch eating the last of the raspberries in their...
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