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Summery, flowery drinks

Summery, flowery drinks

Summer isn’t summer without edible flower drinks, right? Here are a few pretty and tasty ways to add our blooms to your booze.

A cordial affair…

A cordial affair…

A fun afternoon spent making elderflower drinks and edible flower lollipops with some lovely people.

Edible flower lollipops

Edible flower lollipops

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Don’t you love it when something is super simple to make and yet looks so effective? These edible flower lollipops are just like that.

Edible flower ice cream sprinkles

Edible flower ice cream sprinkles

Forget hundreds and thousands, choc chips and those little silver balls that nearly break your teeth. Edible flowers make the prettiest ice cream sprinkles of all.

Forget-Me-Nots on the rocks

Forget-Me-Nots on the rocks

Even though we’re still in April you could be forgiven for thinking it was summer some of these warm spring days. I’m not complaining, I’m totally going with it – sunglasses, short sleeves, iced drinks and all.

Pink primula and pea shoot salad

Pink primula and pea shoot salad

Pea shoots has to be one of the best flavours you can pick straight from the garden and that’s saying something. With a primula partner, together they look so pretty and taste so sweet.

Liquorice ice cream with primroses

Liquorice ice cream with primroses

Not everyone digs on eating grey food. It’s okay, I get it. But they obviously haven’t tried this glorious home made liquorice ice cream with pretty primroses.

The first rule of eating flowers

The first rule of eating flowers

You can’t just go round grabbing any old flower and eating it willy-nilly. No. Just because something looks pretty doesn’t mean its good for you… and that’s a valuable life lesson right there.

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