Oh how time has flown… it has been quite a while since I last posted a blog on this site. Its not that I have lost interest in gardening, foraging and cooking, I still vey much have a passion for blooms and food. Over the last months I have been taking my foraging activities toContinue reading “Back in Blog… still foraging, still cooking, still gardening…”
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Respect Your Elders – Elderflower Cordial Recipe
It’s wild. Its everywhere. Its elder flower –Sambucus nigra. In the month of June its flat flower heads whiten hedgerows and fields around Ireland. Outside my office window I can see the branches bob and sway with the breeze. Seedlings all too often appear in the garden, unwanted, in abundance. But I don’t mind, theContinue reading “Respect Your Elders – Elderflower Cordial Recipe”
ELDERFLOWER AND APPLE JAM- A DELICIOUS TASTE OF SUMMER
Despite the less than summery weather over the last while I do feel that summer has indeed arrived. The reason, the ederflowers are in blossom. Sambucus nigra, common elder, is a native shrub/small tree to Ireland and all throughout the countryside its creamy white flat heads are to be seen. Apart from its medicinal usesContinue reading “ELDERFLOWER AND APPLE JAM- A DELICIOUS TASTE OF SUMMER”
Ciaran The Gardener 