Do you ever eat flowers? The nectar in them is sooo good. Clover flowers are one of them, fireweed is delish too, the whole plant is edible actually, not just the flower. All that is also plant medicine. Especially the dandelion, it's one of the most potent ones and everyone tries to get rid of them, it's a gift from god if anything and they are so abundant. Right now it's morel mushroom season. I don't know if you get those where you live.
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We get them here late March until maybe mid May. The season just ended. It was a banner season for us. They seem to hang out under the pines and elms are one of their faves. We had great conditions for them.
I never had the jelly I'm not a jelly person to begin with, just had them cooked like an asparagus for the stalk and of course the flowers raw.
We get a late growing season, I live in the most northern metropolis in the world plus we had a late winter with snowfalls until late may. I think it's on the tail end of the season but there are still some. I don't actively look for them all the time but I come across them hiking and if I'm not on a national Park I pick them. Last year we found a large ziploc freezer bag full in one hike. They also grow in logging areas, where it's been recently logged of the trees you mentioned the next 2 years is morel abundant, also where there has been forest fires.
Thank you! Very imformative!
I do eat flowers! It is one of the things I am known for. Clover is especially one of my favorites, as is the clover itself. I like the fireweed in a salad or stir-fried. My mom made the jelly. I hope to try that this year. Have you ever made it?
It's true about dandelions. I throw them in salads. They are truly abundant!