Wild strawberry

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May fruits

The Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) starts blooming as early as late March, allowing us to enjoy its small, fragrant, and sweet fruits by early May. These strawberries primarily thrive in deciduous forests, flowering under the sunlight before the new foliage forms a green canopy to shade the ground and prevent […]

The strategy of the Strawberry

The strawberry grows underneath the nettleAnd wholesome berries thrive and ripen bestNeighbour’d by fruit of baser quality (William Shakespeare, Henry V) Once winter has passed, when the forest awakens and spring is in full force, you come across open areas of woods, undergrowth, meadows, and clearings, an expanse of small […]