Our Lovely Essex: with landscaped gardens out of bounds, it’s back to nature

Dandelion clock: "A great source of nectar for bees – don’t cut them under your fruit trees until the yellow petals have gone. It’s the dandelions that attract the pollinators before they move up to the blossom."

*“Apple blossom in my Saffron Walden garden signals a bumper crop”*

*Cowslips on the verge towards Chesterford*

*Woodland path at Essex Wildlife Trust’s site in Ashdon*

*Wild garlic: “There has been an abundance this year and I’ve used it in my cooking throughout May as a fresh, healthy vitamin-rich foraged supplement to lockdown food”*

Jackie Damary-Homan graces today’s Our Lovely Essex with a series of shots that take her a little out of her natural habitat.
“Normally I am leading coach outings for Saffron Walden Horticultural Society and taking pictures of landscaped gardens, but this year it’s all back-to-nature shots,” says Jackie, who has been a member of CPRE for “15-plus years”.
The horticultural society’s loss is our gain, Jackie, at least for the time being…