Ramsons ( Allium ursinum )

An early start.  I had an appointment at the doctors at 8:30 for my annual "12,000 mile service" (by which I mean health check).  It would seem I am still alive!  No problems detected unless the bloods turn up something unexpected.

Before they go over I thought I had better blip a wild garlic flower.  They must have arrived in the garden as seeds in one of our periodic floods.  They have settled nice in Clickychick's "woodland garden" giving it a very real feel of being a woodland.

Another name for wild garlic is Bear garlic, as the scientific name suggests.  Presumably bears when they roamed this country enjoyed Ramsons.  The woodland trust says it is a sign of ancient woodland.  I find this doubtful as our "woodland garden " isn't of any great age.