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Just starting to burst in my area, on the two I pass anyway.
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Flowers out on campus (Lancaster).... means I need to start collecting for my champagne and cordial now!Comment
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I've found Elderflower in bloom near where I live. In total bloom, location Lundy Road, Inverlochy. Will post photo after I've swallowed a brave pill and forced my way through some jaggy bushes
Bad photo!Last edited by FROSTYFRECKLE; 24-05-2010, 02:13 PM.Comment
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That's not elderflower. Looks more like Rowan to me.Comment
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Yep - a rowan leaf.
No elderflower out in my bit of E Yorks yet but I don't think it'll be long.Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Rowan is a right pain for looking just like elderflower, the flowers are almost identical so you need to look at the leaves.
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I cut all ours back last year so lots of new growth, but only a few budding 'heads'.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
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Just checked my elderberry tree in the garden. The leaves have five segments and the flowerbuds are forming, and I found the following picture on Google images. Hope it helps, although they can have more than five segments. Google Image Result for http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/islandcreekes/ecology/Plants/Common%20Elderberry/elderberry_branch.jpeg.Comment
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Just as well I don't make Elderflower wine
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Yup - I can't believe it!!!
I've got elderflowers outside the greenhouse that I work in every fortnight. Somewhere between Cirencester and Swindon.
I was all busy checking the undersides of the pots to see what needed potting on, looked up and there staring me in the face was an elder flower head.
Will post a piccie tomorrow; it was TOO HOT in there this afternoon to go back in and take some photos.
I'll be bringing a bag full back with me tomorrow....
I was expecting loads of you to say that you'd seen it today...that it had come out over the weekend. Probably because it has reflected heat so it is a few days ahead of other elders.
WOOHOO.
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Wait for the berries - you can put them in mixed fruit jelly recipes or make rowan berry jelly as an accompaniment to cold roast meats.Originally posted by FROSTYFRECKLE View PostJust as well I don't make Elderflower wineHappy Gardening,
Shirley
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as promised - photos of some of the elderflower bushes near me - before i picked loads - i have started my first batch of cordial for 2010...the close up is the bush i mainly picked from...and the other photo is to put the bushes in context.....Comment
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Its coming on,
its coming on,
elderflowers coming on.
Me and Tadpole had a look yesturday and 2 or 3 heads are just coming out. I should think by the weekend we'll have a bush full. Just got to work out which neighbour it belongs to and then use Tadpoles charms to bag us a few bag fulls.Growing vegetables and flowers to share.
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Mine havent got any buds yet, the ones in the cementry behind the house havent got any buds yet either
but on the 15th may i was at a model aeroplane competition at barton airport by manchester and 50% of them were flowering thenLiving off grid and growing my own food in Bulgaria.....Comment
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It's a shrub not a tree innit?All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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