It's maybe a seasonal bump that would keep this thread productive ?
Right now among the edibles in my garden .....lesser celandines, bistort, dockens, nettles, hairy bittercress, chives and wild onions, wild strawberries, plantain, roses, rowans and hawthorns flowering and coming into fruit, oats and wheat, mints and assorted herbs. There are other usefuls though; I grow lesser reedmace in the pond for the heads for both pollen (protein rich and a good addition to flour) and the stems and leaves for basketry. I grow iris' for the leaves for cordage and basketry too. Pignuts and the sweet cicely grow happily in pots. Soapwort sprawls over a small bed beside the kitchen door.
Willows for coppicing grow along the fence and are both pretty to look at and easily kept under control. Meadowsweet and feverfew for painkillers, lady's mantle and tansy and mugwort, tarragon, sage, thyme and lemon balm. I grow rasps, rhubarb, blackcurrants and apples and quinces for fruit.
In among that lot come up the seasonal plants, the primroses, the bluebells and the everything from narcissus to saffron crocus'.
I love the changing seasons and the scents of the plants that come up in their time. Roses and honeysuckle, jasmine and philadelphus, sweet peas and nasturtium (mind these are edible too), lavender and St.John's wort, heartsease and foxgloves.
My garden is a vibrantly alive wee jungle
and there's no crime to potting up a plant that might prove useful and taking care of it for a year to suss it out
It's a bit of blessed calm all year round.
"A garden is a good friend you are welcome to visit anytime"
atb,
M
