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Quote of the day:
“What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”
~ Andrew Marvell
Forage in October for:
Sweet Chestnuts, Sloes, Dandelion Leaves, Rosehips, Hops, Walnuts, Haws (Hawthorn berries), Wild Strawberries, Cleavers, Burdock Roots, Rowan Berries
Tag Archives: fruit
Wordless Wednesday – Good Bones
Posted in fruit, Wimpole Hall, Wordless
Tagged Apples and Pears, Cordons, Espalier, Fans, fruit, Gardening, Horticulture, Photography, Pruning, Wimpole Estate
12 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Alternative stories
Sometimes it is hard to choose which photo should be posted on Wednesday each week. Here is a small selection of unseen, alternative monthly stories for 2017 Wordless Wednesday posts:
Posted in Wordless
Tagged Bee Orchid, fruit, Gardening, Horticulture, Photography, red walnuts, seeds, Shirley poppies
21 Comments
Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction … was not so tasty
I can’t remember how I came to have passion flower seeds (Passiflora caerulea) to sow, but inevitably I sowed them and a great many germinated. So then I had to decide what to do with them. I thought that a … Continue reading
Posted in fruit, The home garden, Whimsy
Tagged Edible, fruit, Gardening, Passiflora caerulea, Passiflora edulis, Passionflower, Photography
14 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – A still life full of quince
Posted in Art, fruit, Wordless
Tagged autumn, fruit, Gardening, Photography, Pomegranate, Quince, Still life, Walnuts
15 Comments
Not Quite Strawberry Daifuku – with love
Last week, in a romantic gesture for the V day, I bought strawberries, which according to the label came from … Morocco. Oh dear. I do in fact have strawberry plants in flower in the garden, but only the pink-flowered … Continue reading
Posted in Food, fruit, Plants, Recipes, Whimsy
Tagged aduki bean, chocolate, desserts, fruit, Glutinous rice flour, Ichigo Daifuku, Jam, japanese, Mochi, red bean paste, Strawberries, Strawberry mochi, Sweets, Valentine's day
5 Comments
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
1 Comment
Wordless Wednesday – Medlars ….. I love you, rotten, delicious rottenness *
* D.H. Lawrence
Posted in Nature, Plants, Trees, Wordless
Tagged D.H. Lawrence, fruit, Gardening, Medlars, Mespilus germanica
10 Comments
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
7 Comments
Quince – Paradisal fruit within our reach
Imagine the Garden of Hesperides. Imagine eating one of the mythical golden apples that grant immortality. Then picture a quince. It’s possible they were one and the same (the ancient roman agricultural writer Columella speculated that they were). So there … Continue reading
Posted in Food, History, Nature, Recipes, Trees
Tagged cooking, Cydonia oblonga, Food, fruit, Fruit leather, Harvest, Meechams Prolific, pome, Quince, recipe, Trees, Vranja
9 Comments
