Sumac - does anyone know whether our UK horticultural varieties lend themselves to cooking? See:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/sumac
This is the only tree in the garden of our new home - and I am hoping we can make use of it.
Roger
Can't help you with that one Rog- I only discovered the spice last year and your post is my first know that there's a Sumac tree!
I often find a check the genus for a match helps- I now understand the edible spice comes from the Rhus variety but I couldn't tell you if that was the British variety.
On a less revelational note, our first crocuses are in flower, and 3 clumps of snowdrops are flowering too (just right for last week's Candlemas). These appear to have spread down the slope of our woodland bank, following some disturbance after Bess' winter weed-clear.
Bertie, Itchen Valley.
'We'll never see 40 celsius in this country'.