Tag: linden
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Linden Chocolate
The limeflower season is so brief, no sooner have you sniffed the honey-sweet air and found your foraging bags, and the flowers have gone over. Lime flowers need to be gathered when newly open and dried quickly, then you can enjoy them in teas and skincare all year. There’s more about this very special time…
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Limeflower
Limeflowers from the Linden Tree The name ‘lime’ evolved from Middle English word ‘lind’. Now commonly referred to as Lime trees, and valued for their limeflowers (actually the flower and bract gathered together), historical and folk references to this native tree will typically use the term Linden. For example, Herman Hesse tells a tale of…