Week 9
Wild garlic
Hello! How has your week been? Here I have hung out a washing and spotted two bees. My super early dog walk was not in the dark - first time this year. I sat on the back step in the sun with a cup of coffee. And I saw stars last night for the first time in what feels like months. Much progress, after so much soggy sameness.
This is our community post in which we share the little seasonal things we have spotted in our parts of the world. I tell you mine and then you tell me yours, and at the end of the month I make it all into a poem of the month. This is of course arriving tomorrow! So look out.
I’ll go first:
Wild garlic
It’s here! I have been peering into the leaf litter for weeks now and picking and sniffing little bits of green but now it is unmistakeable. The wild garlic has arrived. Soon it will be a lush glossy carpet and the whole woods will smell of it. This is the start of the spell in which I make it my mission to visit the woods every week, because from here to May they will just be getting more glorious every week. What a joy.
This Sunday will be the first Sunday of the month and that makes it time for ‘Usual Spot’ over in the chat part of the app. We all pick one spot (mine is in the woods) and take a picture of it every month of the year, so that we can see how it changes with the seasons. And it’s absolutely not too late to join in!
That’s it from me, now over to you: what have you seen/sniffed/eaten/done this week that felt particularly seasonal, or particular to this moment in the year?
Answers in the comments below.
On the sunny day this week I saw a yellow Brimstone Butterfly. I bought a plum tree which is already sprouting its buds. I hope the wildlife will share the plums with me 🌱
The few days of warmth and sunshine here on the south coast with everything waking up after endless dreary days. Explored a little rural graveyard after a pub lunch sat outside which was full of birdsong, daffs, primroses, sticky buds and self seeded pretty blue anemone blandas smiling at the sun. It’s been a long grey winter for us with the weather reflecting life events but my heart is lifting in response to spring and am now tempted to go explore a local wood where I will harvest a few wild garlic leaves for cooking later in the year so thank you once again Lia.