Dandelion / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Dandelion is one of the UK’s most prolific weeds and most of us have spent some time digging this one up out of the garden, kicking and swearing at it. But if we look at it slightly differently it could help…
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Cherry / Spring / Autumn / Edible Cherry trees are found in almost every town, village and city within the UK & they have edible parts in Spring and Autumn. Many are cultivated hybrids, but all are edible. Common Names Wild Cherry Botanical Name Prunus Cerasus Scientific Classification Kingdom –…
Wild Garlic / Spring / Edible Common Names Wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows’s leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, bear’s garlic Botanical Name Allium Ursinum Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Asparagales Family – Amaryllidaceae Physical Characteristics Wild garlic is a bulbous, perennial plant, going into leaf…
Sweet Cicely / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Common Names Sweet Cicely, cicely, myrrh, garden myrrh, sweet chervil Botanical Name Myrrhis Odorata Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Apiales Family – Apiaceae Physical Characteristics of Sweet Cicely Sweet Cicely is a perennial growing to 1m high and 1m…
Japanese Knotweed / Spring / Summer / Edible Common Names Japanese knotweed, Asian knotweed Botanical Name Fallopia japonica Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Caryophyllales Family – Polygonaceae Physical Characteristics of Japanese Knotweed Japanese knotweed is a hardy, herbaceous, rhizomatous perennial.  Plants are fully dioecious, with all individuals of the…