Herbal Scotland CIC

When life gives you too many grapes make rasins.

Nice mother and child fly agaric in the woods today

Herbal Scotland will be providing Herbal First aid and giving out samples of our preparations all this week in North Berwick.

Blossom in fruit.

Who knew that Solomon's seal was such a tasty treat. I have been eating the young shoots and crunching up the roots. Also making tincture to treat arthritic joints and many other conditions.

A lovely sunny afternoon spent in Gracemount Community Garden. Thanks to all that came by for a tasting of nettles. We had some nettle oatmeal potato soup, lactofermented nettle and wild garlic, nettle cake (dusted with pine pollen and lemon nettle butter icing), washed down with some nettle and birch cordial and an nettle and lemon verbena infusion.

Hand pollinating the nectarine. First really warm day we have had this year and the blossom is popping.

The days are getting longer the seeds are sprouting in the propigator.

Little winter arrangement using a kenzan or spiky frog from Japanese flower arranging ikebana.

Our first event of the year! Looking forward to providing a winter wellbeing workshop to this wonderful community event.
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Finally got round to separating our young pine cones from the pine syrup. They went down very well at the Gracemount community garden Burns celebrations. People seemed to love the sweet piney flavours.

It's pruning time again. Such a nice way to start the gardening year especially with the winter sun on your back.