Lesser celandines and pignuts are profuse around here just now.
The celandines are a pest in my herb bed, they become over abundant. Beware bringing them into the garden as foraging food![]()
Dunno about blackberry leaves, but on last year’s experience the fruits have little or no flavour round here (Somerset/Devon border), compared to those I’ve picked and eaten in Surrey.
Did you try any the year before? Blackberries, wild and cultivated. were terrible down here in Devon last year. They've been much better in previous years. I don't think they liked the warm early summer and wet and dingy late summer.
On the tasteless blackberries, I wonder if that was anything to do with how they were oriented in relation to the sun? There's an expression south is sweet or something like that. Just a thought.Dunno about blackberry leaves, but on last year’s experience the fruits have little or no flavour round here (Somerset/Devon border), compared to those I’ve picked and eaten in Surrey. We have even gone as far as planting a commercial blackberry bush in our fruit cage to get some fruit with the right flavour.
I might try drying some black- and red-currant leaves later this year to make tea. I have heard it’s good. Plus there’s a huge lime tree in the village, so I might try that for some flowers when they come.
At present though we’ve a little patch of ramsons, and thousands of celandines (flowering) and lords-and-ladies coming up. Not much even on the beech tree yet....
We tried them from the garden, and from several hedgerows, but none of them were much good. Im hoping for better this yearOn the tasteless blackberries, I wonder if that was anything to do with how they were oriented in relation to the sun? There's an expression south is sweet or something like that. Just a thought.
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