lavender blossoms: Lavender Jelly - from garden to dinner table
- 09/01/10 12:36 PM
Making lavender jelly from flowers harvested from my garden and serving it at my dinner table was a delightful experience. Three years ago, my husband and I gutted the backyard of our 1960's home, whose yard had been neglected for 15 years or more. So in rebuilding our yard, I planted numerous flowering bushes and shrubs that would attract birds, bees and butterflies.
I planted 4 Lavender bushes because the smell of blooming lavender flowers is heavenly.
Little did I know that I would be harvesting and drying the many blooms produced by these plants. Once I separated the dried blooms from the stems, … (18 comments)
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Making lavender jelly from flowers harvested from my garden and serving it at my dinner table was a delightful experience. Three years ago, my husband and I gutted the backyard of our 1960's home, whose yard had been neglected for 15 years or more. So in rebuilding our yard, I planted numerous flowering bushes and shrubs that would attract birds, bees and butterflies.
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