Getting Close to Plants, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 May 2014

Find the extraordinary in the ordinary!  Explore the folklore of common wild plants around  Grasmere in the English Lake District. Learn to identify common plants, find out about their uses by country people withing living memory, and the beliefs surrounding them.

Leader:  Roy Vickery.  Details from Glenthorne Quaker Centre, Easedale Road, Grasmere, Cumbria, LA22 9QH; telephone 015394 35389; e-mail info@glenthorne.org; website www.glenthorne.org

Image: daisy, Bellis perennis, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset; April 2014.