
Wild garlic (Allium ursinum) grows alongside The Moss, the brook which flows through the wooded landscape of the Moss Valley Nature Reserve in Northeast Derbyshire. Wild garlic is just one of the many ancient woodland indicator species that grow here, however they prefer the permanently damp soils at the water's edge.
Among the Moss Valley wildflowers
Recently I was lucky enough to spend two early mornings in a row at the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust’s Moss Valley Nature Reserve., which is just over the border into…