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On Not Resisting Temptation: Oscar Wilde | The Chapel of the Abyss

http://www.librarything.com/topic/47875 As to other essential texts "for understanding Oscar Wilde as a dandy and a decadent" (these things are incidentals - like green carnations. I'll offer some suggestions that might augment an understanding of how he originated himself):
http://www.wildaboutplants.org.uk/events/

Wild About Plants » Events and Training Opportunities

We are in the process of uploading our events for 2013 so watch this space for more information. We will have plant identification courses, practical conservation tasks, family events, professional development opportunities and much much more.

Wild About Plants » Parish Pioneer

Take ‘action for plants’ through photography, poetry, food, walking and sharing memories and record these on our action meter. http://www.wildaboutplants.org.uk/parish/
As growers we tend to forget that everything we grow is bred from a wild cousin and that there are a lot of plants that grow happily in the wild we can harvest and eat.

Wild Foods - Edible Wild Plants

http://www.allotment.org.uk/allotment_foods/wild-food/index.php

Frugal Living - Avoiding Waste to Save Money and Help the Environment

http://www.allotment.org.uk/frugal_living.php Turf Roof, Triple Insulated House I Stayed at in Norway
http://www.lowcostliving.co.uk/food/free-wild-food.php It's surprising what nature can provide for free, even in our overcrowded island. Take a walk down any country lane in summer or early autumn and some delicious free food is there to be had.

Free Wild Food from Low Cost Living

Index of Herb Profiles by Common Name http://www.purplesage.org.uk/profileindex.htm

Herb Profiles

Chamomile

Chamomilla recutita (L) Synonyms and Common names : Matricariae flos , Matricaria chamomilla (L.), Matricaria recutita (L.), Single chamomile, Hungarian chamomile, pinheads, scented mayweed, sweet false chamomile http://www.purplesage.org.uk/profiles/chamomile.htm
We use the Peterson field guide to Mushrooms of North America & the National Audubon Society field guide! Please e-mail us for availability of dryed gourmet mushrooms in ¼-pound bags we may have for sale. There is a convenient e-mail link at the top and bottom of this page!

Mushrooms

Wild Mushroom Hunting Little will entice me out of bed at 7.00am on a misty autumn, morning except the promise a few hours of mushroom hunting. I first stumbled on this great adventure while living in France.

Edible Wild Mushrooms in Britain - Information and Advice

Truffle trouble | Environment

Soon it will be time to go mushing again. Mushroom hunting is the quintessential autumn sport, whether it consists of sniffing out the elusive truffle from the leaf mould beneath a fine beech or parting the nettles in the hope of landing that grandest of fungi, the football-sized giant puffball. There is nothing like picking mushrooms to get in touch with the natural world.
If you’re keen to try your hand at foraging in the , wild mushrooms grow throughout the year, but autumn offers the most abundant and varied seasonal eating. From late summer until the first frost, you can gather the likes of penny buns, chanterelles, field mushrooms and dozens of other varieties, many fit for the cooking pot.

Wild Mushroom gathering in the New Forest

Many people are interested in fungi because they are edible. But everyone also knows that wild fungi can be both delicious and deadly poisonous. Unfortunately, there is no simple way of saying what is edible and what is poisonous.

Edible and Poisonous Fungi

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