And now some pictures taken on 10th March from the Monks Brook, a stream behind my parents’ house in Chandlers Ford where a lot of foragables were already available (a full two months before our area in Norway!), starting with a video ending with Helleborus foetidus.
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Great family lunch in a pub at Shawford in Hampshire followed by a walk along the river between Shawford and Hampshire
Shawford Down walk down to the village
Old cattle breed on Shawford Down
Pub lunch next to the river…fish and chips and Abbot Ale!
Walk along the Itchen Navigation between Shawford and Eastleigh!
Epilobium hirsutum
Water vole is an endangered species in England, over the North Sea it’s called jordrotte (earth rat) and is feared by gardeners because of the damage they can do!
Bamboo!
My Aunty Margaret lived in these houses and we spent a lot of time as children by the river!
Maybe it was this hous that was my Aunt’s, but without the gnomes and trees where there’s now terassing
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
