North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Busy as a ...

In a clearing in woodland beside Aasleagh Falls (on the Mayo side of the county border near Leenane), three-cornered garlic (allium triquetrum) had muscled out the bluebells and filled the clearing with a savoury scent. This bumblebee competed with a honeybee to plunder as much of the pollen as possible. The flower, like many of the tourists beginning to fill the roads around Leenane, is a native of the southern Mediterranean that seems to do just fine here. You can eat it too, and who better to describe a recipe than Darina Allen?