Along the way look out for a number of baking decoration ingredients for free.
Wild Strawberries - just coming into flower today - so another 2-3 weeks and you should have strawbs ready to pick. They're delicious added to the top of cup cakes embedded in the icing
Wild Violets - both natural and white ones
pick a few flowers and dip in sugar solution and dry off. use as you would shop bought crystallised flower decorations
There are also numerous patches of wild yellow
primroses - which any one can spot - use these as above
It goes without saying - please DO NOT dig up any wild flowers if you suddenly get an urge to try and transplant a few of them to your own garden - they are easily disturbed, there are not a shortage of them if all you take is a handful of little flower heads, and their surrounding habitat contains numerous other life forms which would be upset if you dug them up too.
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