So yeah I’m copying @Sykadelik 's blog and he can’t do anything to stop me.
I will probably be very honest about this so if you are my brother (teamjb4) and you see this, please just ignore it or otherwise I will implode
Ok yeah anyway
didnt want to lol
bluemin already did so idrc
i will be watching this topic like a hawk that is somewhat ocularly impaired
Today I went to the woods about 30-60 mins away from my house, it was very fun and I made lots of stuff.
I collected flowers and put them in my friend’s hair (she was very pleased) and then I made a crown out of willow vines which was also super cool.
As I am writing this I have just realised that I used a hair tie to attach some blossoms onto the crown and I left the crown somewhere without taking the hair tie off 
The bluebells are pretty much gone now, they have started making seed pods so the flowers are going away.
I was also with syka (as he mentioned on his blog)
So yeah it was a fun day out
Ok lol ( if you really want to watch it put it on watching lol)
already did as soon as i said that
Thought so lol
I accidentally bruised my face with a binder clip I was fidgeting with so now it looks like my face is covered in hickeys
Aside from that the last two days have been really boring and uneventful, I am basically just trying to survive until the weekend and then I get a week off 
But I did learn that we will be creating a game in unity for a computer science project, so I might talk about that here
Dumb sh*t /lh
Same
I will watch with great interest
I am bored right now so I’m going to give some foraging tips!
Wild garlic: Wild garlic is a relatively common foraging plant they grows near streams in woodland.
You mostly find them in the spring, and they have long flower stalks which have many small white flowers in a sphere (like a white allium).
They will smell strongly of garlic, and you have to make sure you don’t confuse them with lily of the valley, since it is very poisonous.
To harvest them, just pluck a few leaves off them, and they can be used like garlic. Don’t bother digging them up, since they don’t have a big rootstock and just have a normal root system.
I’ve heard of people using them for pesto, or just as a substitute for garlic. When they’re raw they are spicy and taste slightly of garlic. I’ve only ever had them raw
Make sure to forage ethically and responsibly, so don’t take too many from one plant and only take what you need. It’s not as big of an issue with garlic since they usually grow in large clusters.
Happy foraging!
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I’m bored again so I’m gonna do another foraging guide
Blackberries:
Black blackberries are the fruits of brambles, a spiky bush with oval, toothed compound leaves made of 3-7 leaflets.
The blackberry bush has white (sometimes tinted green or pink), practically scentless blossoms that bloom in late spring to early summer.
The blackberries themselves are purplish-black and made of many druplets, and have a small white center. The blackberries start off green and ripen to red and then black in the autumn.
Blackberries have thousands of micro species differing slightly in taste, ripening time and other characteristics, meaning that certain areas have blackberries that taste slightly different. For example, near my grandmother’s house on the east coast, there grows a specific variety that’s is more sour than the ones that grow around my house. Since I ate these a lot when I was very young, I now associate the taste with my grandma’s house.
If you particularly like a variety, you can take a cutting home and either plant it or propagate it in water, and it will most likely grow roots and give you your own plant.
Blackberries are fun to forage since they are so common and have prickles to make it just that little bit of a challenge, which means you have to be responsible and leave some for other people, especially in busy areas.
Happy foraging!
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I’d buy your book.
He is genuinely insanely good at nature stuff like this btw, so I hereby hijack this thread and turn it into “bullying TeamJB1 to publish a book about foraging and stuff” /hj
Honestly I might end up writing a book at some point since I have the knowledge
Honestly I don’t know where all this knowledge came from. I just kept identifying interesting looking plants and now I just look around and can immediately tell what every plant is
Ok so I couldn’t decide what I wanted to talk about today so instead I’m just gonna do a guide to various wildflowers!
Poppies:
Poppies are my favourite wildflower, each delicate flower only lasting a couple days. They can range in colour from red to blue, and bloom from may to October.
The ones in bloom currently, (in may) are oriental poppies, which have large blooms with 4 red petals with small black markings near the center.
The poppies then become seed pods that stay closed and green for a while, then dry out and open up for wind dispersal of the seeds. If you get to the pod before it’s empty, you can harvest the tiny edible seeds. They make a good addition to bread.
Tangent about history:
The opium poppy is a variety with magenta blooms, that was historically grown in British occupied India for the opium contained in the unripe seed pods. This opium was a major part of colonialism such as the opium wars against china.
Nowadays the poppy is used as a symbol for remembrance, because of the story that poppies grew all over Flander’s field in ww2. This story could actually be rooted in truth, since poppies have a tendency to grow on disturbed ground.
Dandelions:
Dandelions are extremely common where I am, and they are one of the most versatile forageable plants out there. The season for the yellow blooms has already passed, but you can probably still find the fluffy white seeds around.
First of all, the flowers are excellent for making flower crowns, since the stems are strong yet bendy, letting you weave them easily.
Second, the entire plant is edible. The flower heads, leaves and stems are all technically edible raw, but taste like an extremely bitter lettuce, so I would recommend cooking them first.
The long, thick root that makes them so difficult to remove is also helpful for cooking. You can make tea out if them that helps with digestion due to the mild laxative effect .
The entire plant is incredibly nutritious, so if you have to weed a lot of them, try cooking them instead.
Daisies:
There are two types of common daisies where I am. Small common daisies that appears in lawns and verges in patches, and large oxeye daisies that have small plants and long flower stems.
To my knowledge, they aren’t poisonous but aren’t edible either, but they are excellent for outdoor crafts.
You can make daisy chains out of the small ones that you can make into bracelets, necklaces or crowns, and the larger ones make excellent cut flowers for bouquets.
Buttercups:
Buttercups are small, shiny yellow flowers which grow pretty much anywhere right now. I would not recommend eating these due to the horrible effects (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc).
These can be used similarly to daisies for crafts. The kind with long stems can be used to weave crowns and the small kind can be used to make chains.
They grow similarly to daisies, the smaller kinds growing on grass verges and lawns, and the larger ones growing in patches with long flower stems.
Forget-me-not:
Currently you can find forget-me-nots everywhere where I am, the tiny baby-blue flowers are nice to look at.
You can get a bunch of the flowers and use them in bouquets, but other than that they don’t have much use other than looking pretty.
Forget-me-nots are named after their biennial nature, meaning that they live for two years, die off, and reseed themselves and come back. The reasons they always come back is because they produce many many seeds after flowering.
They start off as small bushes with round, fuzzy leaves, and when it is time to flower they create very long stalks that grow the miniscule flowers.
Dog rose:
Dog rose, also known as wild rose, is another one of my favourite wildflowers. In late spring and early summer, light pink and white blossoms with 5-7 petals cover the large bushes.
In the autumn, the red rosehips can be widely found on the bushes. These fruits aren’t edible by themselves, but they can be cooked into syrup.
You can use the flowers as cut flowers, or as foliage for bouquets. All you have to do is cut a long portion of the stem and take off a few of the lower leaves.
Ok I’m not going to write anything more on this since I have been writing this over the course of hours
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You’re telling me this
is a real thing ?
Yeah right
More seriously I didn’t expect to learn that much on here but here I am
I think next up I’ll be doing a guide for cherries since soon it’ll be cherry season!
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