"Especially important was a startling communication from a clover blossom one summer day when I was about 14," she wrote in an essay in The New Yorker in 1996.
These herbs include, blue cohosh, black cohosh, dong quai, hops, lavender, licorice, rhodiola rose root, saw palmetto berry, red clover blossom, motherwort leaf, and tea tree oil.
The delectable result, contained within robin's-egg blue covers spattered with white clover blossoms, shows how much more articulate Keats and Bonaparte, Beethoven and Byron (to name a few) were in their ardor than was the noncommittal Mr. Big.
Mix eucalyptus and bay leaves, cloves and clover blossoms in a bowl.
In addition, red clover blossoms must be simmered to extract their copper and iron, and dandelion roots should be simmered to prepare a pleasant, coffee-like beverage.
In a little glass case in the Hall of North American Mammals, where the bumblebee stands frozen on the red-clover blossom and the crows pause in flight above the hedgerow, where it is always mid-July in 1960-something in Cohocton, N.Y., the proud groundhog kept his counsel, staring across the verdant valley at the patchwork hills beyond.
So when I'm making a delicate mead, I'll use the early clover apple blossom from the bottom frames.
Another lovely way to enhance a piece of plain toast, and to promote good health, would be a jar or two of Red Bee honey — clover, blueberry blossom and wild raspberry are all harvested in New York State and available at Plum Plums ($14 for 11 ounces) or through Redbee.com.com
The honeybees on the island of Hawaii do not visit everyday clover or orange blossoms: they dote on the flowers of macadamia nut trees, ohia lehua blossoms and Christmasberry, also known as Wilelaiki.
Mr. Beran said, "First, there are dandelions and maple trees blooming, clover and apple blossoms, so it's very light spring honey".
Light-colored honeys, like those made from clover and orange blossoms, are a favorite with consumers and bring the highest prices.
