Mad March Meanderings

It was another wonderful sunny crisp spring day and ideal for meandering.

woodland of native
Newent daffs

First to the wonderful Home Farm, Huntley in Gloucestershire. Set in elevated position with exceptional views over the surrounding countryside there is a 1 mile walk through woods and fields with carpets of spring flowers and shrubs.

collections of cultivated daffs and narcissus

and scattered all around carpets of spring colour

Time for tea n cake, so off down the road to Dymock Poets Church of St Marys providing ramblers with much appreciated sustenance. Again the church and its environs were a golden carpet of daffodils. We pushed on to Queens Wood, just past Okenhall.

copious coppicing 

Bluebells are Blue

We had only intended to visit Home Farm, near Huntley, and wander their bluebell woods ..

This year really has been staggering for flora and blossom

but the day was so beautiful and the bluebells in profusion, we continued through the forest - pausing at Clearwell for a lunchtime snack - to the Wye valley and Cadora and Bigswear Woods. This Woodland Trust circular walk, alongside Offas Dyke, is one of the best bluebell woodland walks in the area.












Then, being sooo close we had to drop in at Tintern for tea n cakes (well, in my case, maple syrup crepes n cream :-p  ). The perfect end to a quintessential spring day.