Category: David

Jack by the hedge, otherwise known as garlic mustard, and nowadays sometimes a target for the wild food foraging fraternity. Often found in hedgerows (where else?) flowering in spring.

Two mature Tamworths, their heads the only part visible poking out of their sty, one of the three types of pigs from the rare breeds stock at Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote.

Close-up view of the flowers around one stem of a garden white heather plant, conveniently growing in soil which was at chest height.

Pair of geese, feral by their all-white colour, with their four goslings on a swim on the Avon at Stratford recently.

Danish scurvy grass flowering by the base of a tree at the side of Compton Road. The plant is a halophile (one which thrives in salty environments).

Until the 1960s it was rare in Britain, growing herre only in coastal areas of East Anglia. Winter gritting and the slipstream winds from traffic allowed it to spread across the country. The tiny plant can now be spotted flowering in spring pretty much anywhere there is exposed soil within the splash zone by busy roads, and even some country lanes.

Recent lambs, resting, nibbling grass then switching to ewe’s milk. Cotswold sheep, another of the rare breeds on Mary Arden’s Farm at Wilmcote.