There's one part of the garden where, when I'm working there, especially when I'm disturbing the vegetation, I get a very strong smell that transports me back to the bullocks' field in West Clare where we used to put up our tent when visiting my uncle. Despite my travels and trampling through many different fields and forests over the years, I've never really come across this smell anywhere else, at least not that I can think of.
Anyhow, the area where I'm picking it up is part of the zone that is destined for landscaping, and if at all possible, I'd like to identify the grasses, weeds or other plants that might be responsible so that I can try to preserve them, as those holidays were filled with good memories and it'd be nice to keep the olfactory trigger. So: does anyone have any ideas as to what makes up the characteristic smell of a damp Loop Head peninsula field?
(And no, it can't be the cow dung, because I haven't had any of that here for about a decade now)
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