There's a wonderful foraging spot under the A41 up the hill from Thomas Coram school. There are at least two varieties of plums (maybe one is a damson? I made jam from them this year and it was so amazing I wrote a poem about it!), an apple tree, sloes, masses of blackberries and the ground is covered in mint!
Wonderfully evocative writing Jenny. I'll look more closely now at wild sloes. And I love the idea of a blackthorn winter - or is it the first blackthorn spring?! xx
Devonian birds are maybe less discriminating (or are the sloes here sweeter? the frosts later?) Anyhow, our sloes are usually long gone by the time we have had frost!
There's a wonderful foraging spot under the A41 up the hill from Thomas Coram school. There are at least two varieties of plums (maybe one is a damson? I made jam from them this year and it was so amazing I wrote a poem about it!), an apple tree, sloes, masses of blackberries and the ground is covered in mint!
That's good to know, Jenny - thank you! We'd always assumed they were sloes, and treated (drank!) them accordingly.
Wonderfully evocative writing Jenny. I'll look more closely now at wild sloes. And I love the idea of a blackthorn winter - or is it the first blackthorn spring?! xx
Devonian birds are maybe less discriminating (or are the sloes here sweeter? the frosts later?) Anyhow, our sloes are usually long gone by the time we have had frost!