Nipped out ......

By Jenny McIntyre ^club

07 May 2016 - 8 comments | Translate title into English

This afternoon I nipped out to the supermarket to get some stuff for Mandi. Our friend Sharon is going out to see Mandi in just under 2 weeks and she's very kindly offered to take anything Mandi wants that she can't get in Turkey. So she wanted some antihistamine tablets and some garlic capsules because these keep the pesky mozzies away from biting her, or if they do bite her, it doesn't flare up and itch like crazy. So as she's living out there now, she needs protection against these irritating insects.....

Anyway I digress - on my way to the supermarket - I decided to go via the back roads rather than the main road because they would be busy. On my way there, I noticed a wonderful sight - a field that was just full of wild garlic........... I've never seen so many like this before - probably because of the wet and mild winter we've had. So I just had to stop and take photos.

Just a little track lined with the wild garlic

As far as the eye can see it's all white

I must add - the smell here was wonderful. I don't normally like the smell of garlic, but the wild garlic is something else. You can tell I don't get out much, waxing lyrical over wild garlic - sorry LOL

8 comments - The latest ones

Stormlizard ^club

Always nice when a friend is willing to transport needed items overseas with limits of course.
Yes eaters of Garlic are less troubled by 'Mozzies' than those that don't eat it.

Like Bernie as it looked nothing like normal garlic I had to look up your plant as it looks nothing like the wld garlic I know here which is like miniature household kitchen garlic, I learned that there are many plants classed as 'Wild Garlic', and yours is one of them, some are also called 'Wild Onios'.

Yes it often pays to take thelonger short cut when out on a nice day, ne can find many interesting things.

Enjoy Sunday.

8 years ago.

Jenny McIntyre ^club has replied to Stormlizard ^club

Well it smelled like garlic rather than onion. When they grow on verges and they get run over by cars, the smell is overpowering sometimes. Yes she has good friends, but there again they are staying in her home for free, so the carrying of a few items, like butter and chocolate is hardly deal breaking LOL

8 years ago.

Valfal ^club

What a beautiful floral display; I had no idea that wild garlic could look so beautiful!

8 years ago.

Jenny McIntyre ^club has replied to Valfal ^club

Oh yes I knew that it was a pretty flower, but this is the first time I've seen so many of them all in one place. It was certainly a sight

8 years ago.

Bee Orchid

Beautiful photos Jenny! We have that on our banks too though not in so much abundance. It does smell 'interesting' lol

8 years ago.

Jenny McIntyre ^club has replied to Bee Orchid

I've only ever seen them on the banks of roads before and therefore thought that they only grew in places like that - but to see them in abundance in a field like this is magical

8 years ago.

Gracie

We once drove through the town of Gilmore, California Rick and I.. It's the garlic capital of at least the us if not the world.. The smell was so overpowering we had to close the windows and even the car vents until we passed through! I like the smell normally but this was a bit much.

8 years ago.

Jenny McIntyre ^club has replied to Gracie

Oh the smell wasn't too overpowering like that, probably because no-one had trodden on any, which makes the smell. I didn't know Gilmore was the garlic capital. Remind me not to go there LOL

8 years ago.

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