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Quote of the day:
“Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields…
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness,
in kindness.”~ Mary Oliver
Forage in May for:
Alexanders, Beech leaves, Cow Parsley, Hairy Bittercress, Hop shoots, Cleavers, Hawthorn flowers, Lime leaves, Red Clover, Ox-eye Daisy, Garlic Mustard, Wild Garlic
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Tag Archives: Fruit growing
Wordless Wednesday: The Slow Sloe Gin Preparation
Posted in Drinks, Foraging, Wordless
Tagged blackthorn, Fruit growing, Gardening, Hedgerows, iPhone photography, Prunus spinosa, Sloe gin, Spring blossom
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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
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
Wordless Wednesday – PYO Raspberries
PYO == Pick Your Own
Posted in fruit, Sadie, Whimsy
Tagged dogs, Fruit growing, Gardening, Photography, PYO, Raspberries, Sadie
16 Comments
