What an incredible display of wild garlic we have seen, in recent weeks.

After the early spring bluebells, the Wight has turned white, with masses of Allium Ursinum.

A relative of onion and garlic, wild garlic is a bulbous, perennial herbaceous plant with star-like flowers.

It is though it could be named because bears like to eat it (ursa is the Latin for bear), or after the constellation Ursa Major.

It grows in deciduous woodlands with moist soils and prefers slightly acidic conditions and can often be smelt, as well as seen.

Wild Garlic is often the neighbour of bluebells, which you shared your pictures of recently, with the Isle of Wight County Press.

Pollinated by bees, loved by a type of hoverfly and favoured as food by wild boar, there have been some dramatic carpets of colour on the Island, though April and May.

Scroll through lovely photos of the flowers in bloom, above and you may also spot your photo in the Isle of Wight County Press,  on May 26.