Day 108: frozen sambuca

It’s disappointing to discover that, of all the ingredients essential to for a liqueur to be sold as Sambuca, the extract of elderflower (from the species Sambucus) is merely an optional inclusion…

Read more

Day 162: black elder

Having been writing only last week on Instagram about a blue rose that isn’t really blue, it did me the power of good just now to wander into a rain soaked garden and discover that the black elder was living up to its name…

Read more