Fever-Tree has just launched a tonic that sounds perfect for the change in the weather. Launching for autumn the brand just revealed a new Damson and Sloe Berry light tonic - just the thing for ...

Summer may be over but with autumn comes ripening fruit fit for foragers, including the sloe berry that can be used to make a tempting tipple to help get you through the winter. Sign up to our ...

The Hibernian Tranquiliser. Is this a drink? No. Is it an Irish boxer? No. Actually it is a humorous name for the blackthorn of sloe tree. Why this name? The wood of this shrub is black especially ...

If you’ve never heard of the sloe berry, we don’t blame you. The jammy, plumlike fruit is common mostly in Western Europe, where it grows in bluish-black bunches on the prickly branches of blackthorn ...

Can you detect the faint tang of woodsmoke? Perhaps you’ve noticed trees turning from their limey hue to a deeper racing green, or the sharpness to the morning air, like a wire in the nostril. Yes, ...

After our glorious, golden summer, the long days and warm nights are giving way to autumn. The mornings are crisper, the evenings cool. But the melancholy of the fading year is mixed with excitement, ...

My youngest son, a lover of good food, has spent the past few weeks making home-made elderflower cordial. The large umbels of creamy-white flowers, plucked from the branches of a wild elder tree ...

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Plonking my suitcase on the luggage rack in the luxuriously appointed room, I rush to the picture window overlooking the Edwardian garden and woodland. The view seems like something from an 18th ...