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Pictured: A walker stop to take a picture<br />
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Millions of wild garlic flowers have created an idyllic scene in an ancient woodland as springtime takes hold.<br />
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Garston Wood is covered in a living carpet of white flowers stretching as far as the eye can see in the Dorset woodland.<br />
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Walkers are nearly up to her knees in the bumper crop of pale petals and enveloped in the scent of garlic.<br />
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Some say it makes the Dorset RSPB managed woodland, near Sixpenny Handley, look like a snow covered forest.<br />
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Wild garlic, Latin name Allium ursinum, loves the damp woodland conditions and grows from winter to late spring, but dies rapidly after flowering.<br />
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It was used during World War One as an antiseptic and in dressings to prevent gangrene.<br />
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In recent years, celebrity chefs including Jamie Oliver and Tom Kerridge have used it as a cooking ingredient.<br />
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Garston, which is also known for its colourful bluebells, is home to roe, fallow deer and the elusive dormouse.