Wild Plants

The easiest way to get to know wild plants is to engage is to start one at a time. Here I have listed my favourites, along with some fun facts and resources -- it is intended to spark your interest.

Before foraging, please consult a foraging guide and plant ID guide too. See the resources section for some ideas. Only consume plants you can 100% identify - nature is powerful!

Evening Primrose

Edible - Known for its skincare benefits, evening primrose is bold and beautiful. That sweet scent can only be described as summer. So delicate. So subtle. But totally enticing.

Garlic Mustard

Edible - A great plant to get to know when you start foraging, easily identifiable because of the garlic smell when you crush its leaves.

Hawthorn

Edible - One of our most common trees, yet quietly understated. She's wild, but also planted in hedgerows up and down the country and a key guardian of biodiversity as lots of wildlife depends on her.

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Holly

Holly's association with Christmas has made it one of the most recognisable of our native plants. But how many of us really have sat down with it to get to know it?

LADY'S MANTLE

Edible - Lady's Mantle is a beautiful plant with a magical history - medieval alchemists thought that the dew which forms on the leaves had magical properties, and could be used to turn metals into gold. It's a plant associated with women and the female reproductive system and menstruation.

NETTLE

Edible - Most people are aware you can forage nettles and use it in soup, but its nutritional content is often overlooked.

Wild Garlic

Edible - Wild garlic - or ramsons - are one of the first plants people think of when you say 'foraging'. For good reason, they're delicious and very potent, easily used as a substitute for shop bought garlic. But also elusive - you have to know where to look!

Three corned leek

Edible - These beautiful flowers during the spring time. They're so tasty, you could have bought it in the shops!

Yarrow

Edible - plant literally has the name of a Greek God in its Latin name - it is both powerful and distinctive, and once you have seen it you will start to notice it everywhere!