Now is the time that the beautiful little coltsfoot flowers begin to appear. These are perhaps the earliest spring flowers, along with the snow drops and crocuses. They tend to grow on waste land so are good one for city dwellers to spot. Mind you if you are gathering them try to find a place free of dogs!

I have make a… cough syrup from these using a similar process to the one I use for my Thyme & Onion Syrup.

I also found this great blog called Eat Weeds that has an intersting page on Coltsfoot with a video by Chris Holland showing how to identify the plant and introducing the culinary and medicinal properties.

These are some pics of Coltsfoot I found on wikimedia common:

Tags: Herbs, Journal, Recipes