Morels continue from Turkey and St Georges are coming from Bulgaria, which is where our mushroom hunting eyes are focused.
Bulgaria needs more sun to encourage both a glut of St Georges (driving prices down) and the third classic springtime wild mushroom, mousseron.
Summer truffles are in abundance now from Italy and France and quality is on the way up, prices are also coming down.
Our tomato offering has swollen well beyond the fun and affordable Inca aka heirloom mix. Talking of fun the trademarked smallest tomato in the world or tomberry is about to hit our shores from the clever Dutch any day now.
As stone fruit supply moves with the sun from Morocco to Spain we begin to dip our toes in the water. We start with yellow peaches and apricots.
My advice is unless you are cooking with them wait for two weeks for the Iberian sun to do its delicious trick when cherries, flat and white peaches and nectarines are sure to join the party.
White strawberries or pineberries are now coming across from Holland. These pineapple flavoured lookers were saved from extinction by Dutch farmers in 2003.
Clementines also cling on and gariguette strawberries are excellent and keenly priced.
Stable spring weather has given us steady crops of English asparagus and wild garlic, driving prices down. We are starting to see flowers and even seed pods on our wild garlic and leeks; sure sign of the march to Summer. Also wet garlic supply has moved from Egypt to France.
We have supplied the rich yet clean scented lemon verbena or verveine in various forms for years. 
Which brings me nicely on to foraged goods. We are close to the high point of the UK foraging calendar, temperatures are high enough to encourage growth but mild enough to prevent burn out or bolting.
Here are just a few of the wild crops we are proud to supply at the moment:
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