Brilliant my copy has landed today, after emails had gone out saying to not expect it before Christmas
What a Bible this thing is!!! Excellent work @Geoff Dann
Anyone else got there's yet?
Edible plants by Geoff Dann
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Brilliant my copy has landed today, after emails had gone out saying to not expect it before Christmas
What a Bible this thing is!!! Excellent work @Geoff Dann
Anyone else got there's yet?
Jealous, still waiting for mine and, as Hermes are useless in this area, I'm not holding my breath.Looking forward to it though
Have you got his edible fungi book?
Looking forward to it though
Have you got his edible fungi book?
Ah no but I have heard about it, only just acquired the Roger Philips book, I'll have to add it to the list!
Still not arrived?
Emailed Cathy earlier to say it had thanks Geoff - it looks great. I'll be getting into it in more detail with a glass of malt in hand later this evening
Thanks for taking the trouble to check and have a great Christmas!
OK great. I will not be using Hermes for a bulk delivery in future. Most of them got there, but out of about 200, 2 failed to arrive at all and a handful had clearly been seriously abused en-route. Cheap and nasty.Emailed Cathy earlier to say it had thanks Geoff - it looks great. I'll be getting into it in more detail with a glass of malt in hand later this evening
Thanks for taking the trouble to check and have a great Christmas!
How far up north, for some reason "temperate" seems to have some slightly different definitions.
If what you're really asking TLM is does it cover Finland, Sweden and Norway I would suggest they are not considered 'temperate' European climates (SW Norway probably is); at least not in any of my references - neither are Spain, Greece or Italy.
In a round about way, yes. None of the sources I looked extended temperate up here (did not expect that) but it would be nice to know even the approximate northern limit.
I think, it is generally safe to assume, that a book that is labelled as Britain, Ireland and Temperate Europe, covers countries with similar climates to Britain and Ireland. There is, of course, a lot of crossover, such as Juniper.
I kind of get the maritime climates of the Misty Isles but when going continental it changes quite fast. Like some palms can apparently just survive in Wales and Cornwall but going east on the same parallel not at all. Ok, so I'll assume the Isles and coastal Europe.
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That happily lives on the tundra. ???
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It includes the specialist plants of the extreme north and the mountains. There are so few of these (of foraging interest) that it was easy to include them without making a compromise on space.
I did not get a chance to find any of these myself. They are some of the small minority of entries where the photos aren't my own. I did plan a trip to northern Scotland, but I had to cancel it because of covid, and didn't get another chance. So I am yet to actually find Purple Mountain Saxifrage, but it is nevertheless included in the book, for completeness.
It covers temperate and colder. There wasn't any point in putting this on the cover though. There's not much that can be foraged in Scandinavia which cannot also be found in parts of the British Isles.
True I think. Cloudberry is very rare on the isles I guess, I don't know how common arctic raspberry is. those two are about all that I recollect just now.
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