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“The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets
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Alexanders, Dandelion Leaves, Rosehips, Cleavers, Burdock Roots, Chickweed
Tag Archives: crab apples
Wordless Wednesday: Need sunshine in December? Grow crab apples.
This vitamin C rich recipe made with rosehips sounds like a wonderful variant on the usual jelly: Rosehip and crab apple jelly
Posted in Food, Recipes, The home garden, Trees, Uncategorized, Wordless
Tagged crab apples, fruit, Gardening, jelly, John Downie, orange, Sunshine
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
I go through phases of enjoying poetry, with very long gaps between, and that is how I’ve only just got round to reading the full poem ‘Ode to Autumn’ by John Keats. It seems to me to take us through … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Nature, Plants, Whimsy
Tagged autumn, Bees, crab apples, fruit, gourds, John Keats, malus, Mellow, Poetry, wood blewits
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