Tag: cleavers
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Spring tonics
As soon as you see the first fresh dandelion leaves, its time to start making your spring tonic. Having spent winter eating the heavier, fattier soups and stews that our body needs to keep warm, it’s time to flush out the system in preparation for the lighter salads and leaves of spring and summer. So…
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Cleavers
Whether you know it as cleavers, clivers, goosegrass, sticky willy, organic sellotape, or the botanical name of Galium aparine, you will have come across this delicate yet robust plant scrambling through gardens and hedgerows. Magic appearance Seemingly from nowhere, yards and yards of cleavers stems, prettily decorated with whorls of leaves at neat intervals, appear…
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January herb walk
You probably wouldn’t expect to find many herbs braving the wild outdoors in January – especially given the freezing temperatures and snow we’ve had this weekend. But sometimes heading out with the lowest expectation can bring some of the happiest surprises. Fairy wood For our January herb walk we met at the base of Cam…