About This Walk
Another chance to visit the fantastic family run poison garden at Kelly House in Devon right on the border with Cornwall. Coming a little earlier in the year this time will mean that even more of the poisonous plants will be out in bloom including (hopefully) the fabulous monkshood which is the biggest most beautiful villain of them all.
Also we’ll explore the hedgerows in this beautiful part of England which are always teaming with wild species.
*Dogs welcome
*Kids (under 12) go free!
What you’ll learn
What you can and cannot eat
Wild flavours
Medicinal properties
Good foraging practice and sustainability
History, myth, stories and folklore
A light hearted look at the subject with some ludicrous facts and stories thrown in.
Here’s a list of some species we saw last time.
- Goose grass
- Nettles
- Stinking Bob
- Cuckoo pint
- Yew
- Ivy
- Wood avens
- Doc
- Ground elder
- Dogs mercury
- Cow parsley
- White dead, nettle
- Hogweed
- Silver weed
- Ribwort, plantain
- Ground Ivy
- Dandelion
- Wilde garlic mustard
- Cranes, Bill
- Thistle
- Speedwell
- Greater plantain
- Burdock
- Elder
- Rose Bay Willow herb
- Field Maple
- Lesser celandine
- Dog rose
- Yellow archangel
- Hedge wound wort
- Cross wort
- Chickweed
- creeping cinquefoil
- Comfrey
- Stitchwort
- Primrose
- Ladies smock
- Horse chestnut
- Mouse ear, chickweed
- Green Alkanet
- Red Campion
- Periwinkle
- Great mullein
- Lilac
- Wilde garlic
- Naval Wort