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“… then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
– William Wordsworth
Forage in March for:
Cleavers, Dandelion flowers and leaves, Gorse flowers, Ground Elder , Hop shoots, Alexanders, Primroses, Wild Plum blossom, Sweet Violets
Category Archives: Food
Loving the Lilac – Saving the Scent
I do love Lilac. There is something both old-fashioned and comforting about it. It brings to mind family teatimes enjoyed outside, beneath jolly bunting or inside blanket wigwams, with cake, scones and cream and pints of tea or lemonade. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Food, Recipes, Trees
Tagged Common lilac, edible flowers, Gardening, Lilac honey, Lilac syrup, Photography, Preserves, scented flowers, Syringa vulgaris
7 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Ah, the forgotten, saved Oca from last year!
Posted in Food, The home garden, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Gardening, New Zealand yams, Oca, Oxalis tuberosa, root crop, Tubers, vegetables
6 Comments
Foraged blossom, stone fruit syrup and sticky date cake
I love this time of year, when the hedgerows around about become billowing white clouds of stone fruit blossom: Damsons, gages, bullace, wild plums and sloes. It is very transient, but beautiful. A while ago I wrote a post sharing … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Foraging, Recipes
Tagged #StayAtHome, cake, damsons, Foraging, Fruit growing, Gardening, Greengages, Sticky date cake recipe, Wild plum blossom syrup
8 Comments
Afternoon tea in a builders yard!
Over the years we’ve spent a lot of time at Bannold building merchants, wandering around their display gardens, choosing various stone and building materials for our own garden projects. Having seen inside some of their on-site sheds, we were aware … Continue reading
Late, late season plums … those would be bullaces
I’ve recently discovered that the fruit tree opposite the gardeners’ bothy at Wimpole is not just an oddly prolific, especially late-season plum, but is actually a Bullace. I’d never heard of them before! Both physically and in taste, bullaces lie … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Foraging, fruit, Trees
Tagged Bullace gin, Bullace jelly, Bullaces, Cricksies, Fruit growing, Gardening, orchards, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia
7 Comments
Six on Saturday – Back to Black
OK, so this might be an admission of burning the damson jam this morning. (Yes, it caught on the bottom of the pan. Don’t worry, it is nothing a good soak won’t fix!) But no, it is rather a reference … Continue reading
Six on Saturday – Ripe for the picking
21/09/2019 Well, what a glorious week that was! But it’s been cold in the mornings. The car said 4.5 deg C on Tuesday morning and the heating came on unexpectedly on Monday morning (since I hadn’t bothered to turn the … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Food, fruit, Six on Saturday
Tagged #SixOnSaturday, American Pokeweed, Canna indica, Caryopteris clandonensis, Gardening, Ivy bees, kiwi berries, Salvia uliginosa
22 Comments
Six on Saturday – Summer’s Swansong
31/08/2019 We are in that time of abundance in the year where there’s still plenty to harvest, pick and admire, but there are also overtones of completion and change. As a former astronomer I hold with summer stretching on till … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Six on Saturday, Vegetables
Tagged Achocha, Figs, Gardening, Grasses, Lavatera trimestris 'Dwarf Pink Blush', Meadow flowers, Wood Aster
24 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – All about my plot
Posted in Food, The home garden, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Beans, Gardening, iPhone photography, vegetables
2 Comments
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