GREEN AND PLEASANT

It's all mimsy in the lanes and groves.  The cow parsley billows on all our edges and despite the desert conditions here it’s still lush and green in the fields.  The scene in late spring is almost too lovely - apparently pictures of idyllic country views from the Weald of Kent and Sussex were used in the war to remind everyone what we were fighting for.

It’s the time of the year when all the umbellifers (flowers with ‘umberella’ shaped heads) are in bloom.  The hedgerows are awash with their delicate creamy umbels.  Not just cow Parsley and Elderflowers, although round here they don’t leave room for much else to bloom.