New uses for a very old and very pretty wildflower

Meadowsweet’s delicious scent is perfuming the country air from ditches and wild meadows now.

If you are lamenting the fact that your homemade cordial stocks are running low and kicking yourself for not making the most of elderflower season, there is light at the end of the torment.

As always, mother nature is bountiful, and lucky for us flower-foraging enthusiasts, another wild edible flower called meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) is ripe for the picking.