Herbal internship in the French Drome
Spice walk at Cornillon
A small herbal walk at Cornillon sur l'Oule. We leave, as usual, in the parking lot in the village of Cornillon itself. The public toilets that are there can already be used for preventive purposes. You turn the short street towards chapel or church and then directly to the right and straight down into the romantic footpath.
Between hedges and hedges, we already find a plant classic for this kind of biotopes, the Stinky ballote, a gloomy lip-flowery with modest flower, dark green leaves and stale, soot smell, which still likes to grow in the shadow of hollow roads. So really a depri-plant, it is used as a sedative.
Marnes Noires
From the romantic shadow we walk to the light and warmth of the open slope. First, along the eroded gravel of the Marnes Noires, gray-black finely ground slate, where only the strong grass Achnaterum calamagrostis and some beautiful umberflowers with deep pinroots can grow. We now look at the 'plan d'eau' below us, an originally natural lake in the dam of the river Oule and then further finished into a swimming and plodder spot for tourists. Now, in May, there is fortunately no tourist to be seen yet. We, 6 nature tourists have the realm to us alone.
