Tip for wading through brambles... Finally a use for old plastic bottles... Making a gauntlet to cover trousers /top of boots . Stops the pesky thorns tearing or getting a grip on boots /trousers and tripping...
The really cool thing about Crataegus is that it wll balance the blood pressure, not simply lower it. If the pressure is high, it'll help bring it down, if it's low, it will help strenthen it. This is called 'normalising'
Rose hips are amazing! Try fermenting them by mixing in 2% of their weight in sea salt. Put in a fermenting jar or glass jar with metal lid that you burp every day. They are done after 5-6 days.
@@UKWILDCRAFTS Yes, I plan on drying the ferment for a powder that can be used as seasoning. More common where I live is to make a sweet soup and eat as a dessert with whipped cream and almond biscuits.
Great quality videos with amazing explanations. The only suggestion ,it would be great if you leave the name of the plant on the screen while talking about it. ( it might be just my problem but i have to go back to the beggining to try to remember the name)
1:40 I've never looked it up to check how true it is, but I was told once that 'haw' is an Anglo Saxon word for 'hedge', and that's why we call it that.
@@UKWILDCRAFTS I've just been down an online rabbit hole there... Apparently 'Hau' is thought to be the equivalent in modern German, meaning 'a clearing' where trees have been cut (presumably for livestock, initially). I love etymology and what it can tell us about the past :)
I have a bird sown Himalayan honeysuckle growing in my paving in a very inconvenient place. I'm going to take some cuttings as I don't think I will be able to get the plant out with sufficiently intact roots to plant in a better position. It actually flowered this year and has a few berries. I'm looking forward to tasting them!
trust him when he says you dont want to eat the unripe berries! even some that seem dark and ripe but aren't REALLY squidgy yet can still have that bitterness. but the fully ripe ones taste exactly like maple syrup.
Ahhh so the mushrooms I found were Druids Saddle. It was too big and tough as old boots but hopefully I'll find some young ones. I'm spending lots of time working out what grows where in my locality. Lots as it turns out. Just need to sort my timing. Thank you for your wonderfully informative content.
Excellent stuff as ever! I like to make tea with the haw berries. I'll use some fresh and dry some for winter. I also dry the flowers and leaves for tea earlier in the year. It's a nice taste, a bit like jasmine tea, and it's a really good heart/blood tonic.
Thanks again, namesake. I've been enjoying these this year and reckon I'll be revisiting at various points in the future. Love the sound of that Himalayan honeysuckle! Might try and convince my wife to plant some in the garden
great video as usual. that last one, L. formosa, was a new one to me only a few months back (from your videos i'm sure), i would have been certain it was toxic before then. now, after the few tentative nibbles with any new wild foods (maybe thats just me), i snack on the ones growing in my local park, such an unusual flavour. on sunday i found 2 great fungi, beefsteak and chicken of the woods on the same tree! i left the beefsteak though as it was my first time seeing one in the flesh, wasn't 100%, but will be in future now.
Nice vid Lewis, i've got one of those pheasant berry bushes in my garden the starlings have a feed off it in autumn tho' if it's a nice as you say i'll try it in a crumble. I have seen dryads saddle locally i didn't know it grew all summer long, big brackets on it like 2foot and they grow fast.
Hi, love the videos. I can now annoy the missus while out walking pointing at things and eating them 😂 I had my first Hawthorne berries after watching this video. I would compare the texture and taste with candle wax. And I'm gutted about the Himalayan honeysuckle as I remember seeing the flowers not long before the video. I munched on quite a few fuchsia berries since you introduced me to those 🤤
Hi, I just want to say that I LOVE your youtube series and have watched every single one. An avid subscriber! I am looking for one of your videos which I'm sure was recent and you rubbed a leaf on your legs to prevent mosquito bites. You said in the video that it's a smelly plant. I can't for the life of me find that video again, can you tell me what that plant was called please? ❤️
Did you forget to metion that the seed (pip) of the Hawthorn are toxic, what if children try them after watching this video, seems like a very important/dangerous point you missed out on there.
The seeds of many fruits including apples and cherries are mildly toxic, but it’s a negligible amount otherwise all the fruits would come with a warning label
Fascinated with the Pheasant Berry. So much growing closeby along a walkway far from traffic. The ripe berries are so incredibly delicate. What’s the toxicity of the berries? I have read on some online sources that it exists. Most sources claim it’s fine. Just wonder about quantity if eaten really. I have eaten some of the ripe berries nearby this week and the unexpected taste really surprised me. Caramel, toffee apple (as my wife described it). Even crushed a few to put in with a coffee. Was tasty. Not planning a Pheasant Berry Pie or anything but still curious, does toxicity exist?
Hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa) is a different mushroom to chicken of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus). I’m hoping to include it in a video soon :)
Hi bud, I'm absolutely baffled by the fact that I can't see a single hazelnut on hundreds of hazel trees in a woodland/estate with many of the trees being fairly out in the open with good sun exposure. Google doesn't have a clue, do you have any idea why this might be? The drought this year maybe?
There have been quite a few in evidence where I am in Cambridgeshire. The squirrels usually get to them before I do though. Might be especially the case this year if other food sources have suffered because of the drought...
