The bumble bees
love my lavender
They’re on it all the time
Drinking up the pollen
when the weather is sublime.
It felt as if I was a thief of sorts, cutting the lavender stems as I was one morning. The bees swayed and dipped on the profusely blooming lavender. If I were a bee I would most certainly choose the nectar of lavender too as I swayed and dipped drinking lavender juice. This year has been a joy to this particular lady gardener as I had not been able to find a happy lavender spot for over 20 years until now. That is a long time to wait to have a happy lavender growing garden.
Lavender requires certain things to make it flourish. Well-drained soil, even rocky, and limestone enriched soil also helps lavender to grow strong.
During the warm afternoons we are sipping... what am I saying?... drinking heartily, lavender lemonade tea. First, you make a lavender syrup by taking 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar. Bring this to boil adding 1 cup lavender blooms. As soon as it boils put a lid on your pan and allow to steep for about 10 minutes or so, strain all lavender from your syrup. Add this to freshly brewed black tea and lemonade to taste.
The lavender syrup should be stored in the refrigerator.
- It always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She’s one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away. ― Myrtle Reed
2 comments:
I'm so happy to have this recipe for lavender syrup! I have many lavender plants and have often tried to harvest the blooms to use in sachets -- but did not follow through to the end. I would keep the dried flowers in the freezer, waiting for me to get on the project. Then, eventually, throw them out :-(
It's much more likely that I would use any syrup I might make. Thank you for sharing!
Three posts this week! :)
I absolutely love lavender. I have a happy lavender spot in my garden, but I don't think it's as big as yours, because if I harvested that much, I would have none left. I tried to snip every other stem, or maybe every third, but I did sooner, perhaps too soon; hung them to dry!
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