[Jump to Recipe] We are reaching the end of lilac season here. The dark purple ones I used for my previous recipes are almost all gone but there are still other variations of bushes with different colors around. I was contemplating doing another lilac recipe while there was still a chance so I picked some. I was a little scarred after my first experience working with lilacs and decided I would change it up. This time I wanted to do something fun that…
[Jump to Recipe] I don’t have a yard here and grow all of my herbs and edible flowers in pots and planters on the patio. One of these herbs is rosemary, a perennial herb that spent the winter under a grow light inside. It is now spring and time for the rosemary to head back out. Rosemary is a plant that can be hard pruned back at the end of winter/beginning of spring. This helps the plant fill out and be…
[Jump to Lilac Syrup Recipe] [Jump to Lilac Sugar Recipe] It is spring in Colorado, finally. I don’t know what is normal weather here but I have never lived in a place where it snows on the first day of May or where it is 70° F one day and then 30 the next. I guess you can still call that time spring, but spring for me was always flowers and shoots and green all over the place. One of…