Month: January 2009

  • Little Trotty Wagtail

    LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL by John Clare (1793-1864) Little trotty wagtail he went in the rain, And tittering, tottering sideways he neer got straight again, He stooped to get a worm, and looked up to get a fly, And then he flew away ere his feathers they were dry. Little trotty wagtail, he waddled in the…

  • Three-cornered garlic

    Keble Martin, in the 1969 edition of The Concise British Flora in Colour, describes this plant as “Naturalized in woods, etc., in W. Cornwall, S. Wales, S.W. Ireland and Guernsey”, and the flowering period as April to June. Since he spent much of his life in Devon it seems likely that it wasn’t found here…