Hedgerow Toys - Jan Edwards
As we are all still in lockdown the list of subjects available to chat about seems smaller. None of us are getting out and about - except for the allotment. Walking down to the plot recently I spotted a clump of plantain and wondered how many people now derive fun and games from the plants that grow in the hedgerows? Here are things to look for on those family walks. I doubt there are many children who have not blown the ‘clocks’of a Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, to tell the time. Or laughed at anyone picking the yellow flowers, on the grounds that doing so would mean they would inevitably wet the bed! Of course they are also well known as a salad leaf, or as dandelion and burdock fizzy pop. Its number of country names are only exceeded by it listed medicinal properties, from liver function to heart disease via diabetes and weight loss – but to the child? It is a fun clock! Holding a Buttercup, Ranunculaceae, flower beneath some...