SEPTEMBER

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A GUIDE TO EDIBLE FLOWERS

It’s not just restaurant chefs who can use flowers in cooking. It is the perfect time to collect flowers and then elevate a normal meal into a colourful and delicately-perfumed visual feast..

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ULTIMATE SLOE GIN RECIPE

Here is, what has to be, the ultimate sloe gin recipe. If you start to gather your sloes in the next few weeks then you can have your own batch bottled and ready to enjoy by mid-winter.

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SEPTEMBER

“There are flowers enough in the summertime,
More flowers than I can remember -
But none with the purple, gold, and red
That dye the flowers of September!”

- Mary Howitt (1799-1888)

 

AUGUST

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rose-peTAL hONEY

Capture the fragrance of these intoxicating flowers in jars of golden honey, and my suggestions for how to use it. Rose honey, pistachio and cardamon baklava anyone? …

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YEar-round bulbs

When the bulb catalogues start thudding onto the doormat later this summer, this chart can help you plan for a succession of interest in the garden …

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Forage and garden

Late summer is one of the best possible times to go hedgerow foraging. Here are some easily identifiable things to keep a look out for on your urban or rural walks …

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