{"id":71434,"date":"2026-05-22T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71434"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:10:10","slug":"the-magical-ale-hoof-or-ground-ivy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-magical-ale-hoof-or-ground-ivy\/","title":{"rendered":"The magical ale hoof or Ground Ivy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepeta Glechoma ground Ivy<br \/>\nA cure all<br \/>\nFrom years long before<br \/>\nGrows in large patches<br \/>\nWith kidney shaped leaves<br \/>\nBright violet flowers<br \/>\nDon\u2019t ignore<\/p>\n<p>Prolific abundance<br \/>\nSquare stems like Mint<br \/>\nAromatic it has a fine oil<br \/>\nLow growing<br \/>\nBee\u2019s love it<br \/>\nSharing grass areas<br \/>\nIn salads with herb salts<br \/>\nIt provides to the soil<\/p>\n<p>A magical meaningful<br \/>\nA divination<br \/>\nIt\u2019s leaves on the base<br \/>\nOf a candle of yellow<br \/>\nAnd burned on a Tuesday<br \/>\nOn an evening that\u2019s mellow<br \/>\nTo discover<br \/>\nWhose working bad magic against you<br \/>\nAn edible<br \/>\nIn soups and salads<br \/>\nWas used long ago for those<br \/>\nSuffering tinnitus  that\u2019s what I have read<br \/>\nAnd still to this day<br \/>\nIt grows<\/p>\n<p>Here there and everywhere <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepeta Glechoma ground Ivy A cure all From years long before Grows in large patches With kidney shaped leaves Bright violet flowers Don\u2019t ignore Prolific abundance Square stems like Mint Aromatic it has a fine oil Low growing Bee\u2019s love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-magical-ale-hoof-or-ground-ivy\/\">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":[749,733],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-herbals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434","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=71434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71436,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71434\/revisions\/71436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}