As we spring towards February, I have some wooly company by the edge of the hedge, and I find myself drawn to the luminescent lichen on the hawthorn hedge, before heading back into the village to see the yellow beacons of floral groundcover that are the winter aconite in the churchyard. And on the way, coming across the chattering local starlings who’ve recently lost their regular perching site. Recorded at the end of January, we're approaching the midpoint between Winter Solstice and the Spr...
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As we spring towards February, I have some wooly company by the edge of the hedge, and I find myself drawn to the luminescent lichen on the hawthorn hedge, before heading back into the village to see the yellow beacons of floral groundcover that are the winter aconite in the churchyard. And on the way, coming across the chattering local starlings who’ve recently lost their regular perching site. Recorded at the end of January, we're approaching the midpoint between Winter Solstice and the Spr...
The Holly Tree, Winter Solstice and a Mistle Thrush
Edge of the Hedge
40 minutes
2 years ago
The Holly Tree, Winter Solstice and a Mistle Thrush
In this episode, it's approaching December's Winter Solstice, in Lincolnshire in the east of the UK, where Hannah (herbalist, nature educator and host) lives. We take a crunchy walk through the frozen landscape after an unusually hard frost, before going to meet a striking, berry-laden Holly tree in the village graveyard, and we hear what could well be a Mistle Thrush...Heralded as the start of astronomical winter, winter solstice is the 24 hour period when there are the shortest number of da...
Edge of the Hedge
As we spring towards February, I have some wooly company by the edge of the hedge, and I find myself drawn to the luminescent lichen on the hawthorn hedge, before heading back into the village to see the yellow beacons of floral groundcover that are the winter aconite in the churchyard. And on the way, coming across the chattering local starlings who’ve recently lost their regular perching site. Recorded at the end of January, we're approaching the midpoint between Winter Solstice and the Spr...
