Flower to the People

As we were walking through the woodland yesterday planting the last of the trees we spotted this beautiful clump of Wood Sorrel tucked into a hollow and surrounded by moss on a fallen Ash bough.  As soon as Elizabeth heard about it she was off into the woodland to investigate and take photos.

Wood Sorrel has delicate white flowers with pink veins. In folk medicine the leaves used to be used as a remedy for skin conditions and scurvy, also as an antidote to arsenic and mercury poisoning - though we would recommend that that you go and see your doctor rather than trying your hand at woodland foraging if suffering from any of these conditions!