The once busy Tamar settles down to summer
by Virginia Spiers from Environment | The Guardian on (#2TGY2)
Calstock, Tamar Valley In the woods, leaves obscure all but glimpses of the ebbing river
Dogwoods, covered in flowers with cream bracts, shine from the prevailing green of Cotehele's valley garden and in the woods leaves obscure all but glimpses of the ebbing river.
Flag iris, water dropwort and reeds slow the flow of the Danescombe tributary into the Tamar and opposite this little delta, beyond the swirling current, two swans feed on the mud bank where "point stuff" - fallen leaves washed into the river - used to be shovelled into rowing boats for use as manure in the market gardens.