Every spring, it starts again. The white blooms creep out from shaded woodland floors, the scent hits your nose before your eyes have had a chance to adjust to the dappled light, and suddenly it’s ...
Wild garlic can be found in Ireland from April to June. Now is the perfect time to forage for this aromatic herb and use it as part of your home cooking. Ramsons is the only native garlic that grows ...
Wild garlic, often confused as wild onion, is a foul smelling weed easily identified in lawns throughout Rowan County. Blue-green tufts of the weed dot lawns in early spring annoying homeowners and ...
France’s National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES) is warning the public about the risk of confusing colchicum with wild garlic, a mistake that can lead to serious ...
Even worse are rhizome spreaders like ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), which several readers identified, some after months of confusion. Reader Tricia in ...
So what actually is wild garlic? Also known as ramsons, bear’s garlic or allium ursinum, wild garlic grows abundantly in damp, shaded woodland from March to early May. Its long, flat leaves and ...