Wild Garlic Flowers

Wild garlic waits underground for the majority of the year until, in spring time, it makes the most of the light available under the tree canopy.

Growing in dense colonies of starry white flowers borne on straight green stems, the unmistakeable smell alone is a tell tale sign you’re close!

A native of Asia, wild garlic is common here, going by many names such as buckram’s and ramsom’s. Bear garlic and bear’s leek are said to come from brown bears’ fondness for eating the bulbs when emerging from hibernation in Europe.

With magnesium rich leaves, it can be eaten by humans to fight off coughs and colds, while history suggests it was used to treat toothache, warts, measles, mumps, rheumatism, cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive problems, as well as for the sterilisation of wounds.

Like spring’s sparklers these beauties have burst into bloom, carpeting woodland, standing tall among a sea of dark green leaves.