On Saturday I was very happy to be invited to join Pudding Mill River at the Greenway in Stratford , running through the Olympics site, to collect some plants with the help of some lovely people who joined the Botanical Collecting Expedition. Marie Briggs at Kew Herbarium was good enough to make the loan of a Vasculum and a press which made it a much more efficient expedition. We collected specimens from herbs and shrubs. The list is as follows: Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare Hedge Mustard - Sisybrium officinale Burnet Rose Rosa pimpinellifolia Bird's-Foot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum Black Horehound - Ballota nigra Treacle Mustard - Erysimum cheiranthoides Common Mallow - Malva sylvestris Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare A Grass - unknown We also saw plenty of apple trees, brambles and mugwort, ragwort, yarrow, various roses including dog rose, three types of bindweed (probably Convulvulus arvensis , Calystegia sepium , and the non-native Calyst...
Learning about plants with an edible ecosystem nature garden, plus wild food and foraging, and occasional forays into books, recipes, films and other related ephemera