{"id":71322,"date":"2026-04-28T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71322"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:53:07","slug":"awelfa-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/awelfa-in-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Awelfa in Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near my house is a track<br \/>\nIt, doesn\u2019t go that far<br \/>\nBounded by bushes<br \/>\nAnd wild flowers that  are<br \/>\nEdible many of them<br \/>\nJust free to eat<br \/>\nWhere hedgehogs and even a stoat<br \/>\nDo compete<\/p>\n<p>Sedums and ground Ivy clovers<br \/>\nAs well<br \/>\nDandelions, plantains<br \/>\nShops do not sell<br \/>\nBut they are for free here<br \/>\nHerbals that can<br \/>\nBe thought of as sacred<br \/>\nFor yes common man<\/p>\n<p>With sun in the sky<br \/>\nThe dandelions they<br \/>\nAre awake with their petals<br \/>\nOn each sunny day<br \/>\nThe  flowers and the stems can be eaten<br \/>\nFor they<br \/>\nmake a stem pasta<br \/>\nThat\u2019s really ok<\/p>\n<p>The flowers in a salad<br \/>\nHelps tone up the skin<br \/>\nStrengthens our blood<br \/>\nIt means we can win<\/p>\n<p>Hands down,  they are free<br \/>\nNo money to pay<br \/>\nEvery bit of the plant<br \/>\nCan be eaten each day<br \/>\nDandelion tea from the leaves<br \/>\nOr the flowers<br \/>\nis good for our livers<br \/>\nIt has restorative powers<\/p>\n<p>Yes All around in  the early light<br \/>\nThe wild flowers love to be<br \/>\nA myriad of different plants<br \/>\nGrowing cheerfully.<br \/>\nWild garlic in the bushy shade<br \/>\nAnd lots of wild birds they<br \/>\nCome to pick up all  the seeds<br \/>\nThat brighten up each day.<\/p>\n<p>The dry stone walls<br \/>\nAre everywhere<br \/>\nWhere slow  worms come and rest<br \/>\nLichens mosses wild birds even<br \/>\nMove here for its best<br \/>\nA quiet public walk way<br \/>\nJust three houses here<br \/>\nI am the topper most White House<br \/>\nWhere serenity my dear <\/p>\n<p>Is always close <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near my house is a track It, doesn\u2019t go that far Bounded by bushes And wild flowers that are Edible many of them Just free to eat Where hedgehogs and even a stoat Do compete Sedums and ground Ivy clovers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/awelfa-in-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,905,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71324,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71322\/revisions\/71324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}