January * Black Mustard - spicy leaves * Velvet Shank - golden fungus on decidous trees * Wood Ear - jelly fungus on dead elder
February * Hairy Bittercress - woodland weed with disc leaves * Scarlet Elf-Cup - bright fungus in damp deciduous land * Three-Cornered Leek - leek-like triangular stem from bulb, white flowers * Winter Laver - sticky hair-like seaweed high up on shore
March * Alexanders - carrot family with early leaves * Common Sorrel - spear leaves in grasslands taste like grape skins * Corn Salad - oval leaved with tiny lilac flower clusters * Dandelion - salad petals and leaves with coffee root * Primrose - soft leaves and yellow petals * Sea Kale - tasty purple pebble beach cabbage * Silver Birch - tap sap * Stinging Nettles - yound leaf heads and seeds like sesame * Wild Garlic - smell of garlic in shady woodland
April * Bulrush - cat-tail heads shooting up by ponds * Chickweed - pointed leaf pairs and single hair-line stem * Common Mallow - folding serrated lobes with a dark spot in the centre * Garlic Mustard - soft serrated kidney leaves with pods * Gorse - those pina-colada flowers * Ground Elder - oval leaves in threes and fives * Gutweed - inflated tube seaweed to deep-fry * Pignut - hidden inch-sized tubers * Scurvygrass - coastal tufts of spade-shaped leaves * Sea Beet - huge delicious seaside leaves * Sea Spaghetti - long branching flat brown seaweed fronds * St George’s Mushroom - grassland ring of off-white domes * Sweet Cicely - northern carrot family with downy lace aniseed leaves
May * Beech - baby leaves plus nuts later on * Carragheen - flat branching purple-brown seaweed for setting jelly * Dulse - dull-red large fingers of flat seaweed to steam or crisp * Fat Hen - diamond pale green leaves with whitish granules * Fennel - aniseed feather leaves * Scots Pine - tufts of needles for tea * Sea Rocket - fiery sand sprouts * Watermint - furry bronze-green leaves with square stem * Wood Sorrel - carpet of clover like leaves and red stems
June * Elder - fragrant white umbels * Gooseberry - hawthorn-like tree with hairy fruit * Samphire - small cylindrical jointed stems * Wild Marjoram - tufts by the roadside with clusters of pink-purple flowers
July * Horse Mushroom - large white mushroom with pink into brown gills * Meadowsweet - heady painkilling cymbe of white blossom * Mugwort - rosemary-scented deeply lobed leaves but light underneath * Redcurrant - perfect red capsules * Wild Radish - tall rough emerging leaf pairs