20 Spring 2010 Cornish Gardener
BODMIN PLANT & HERB NURSERY FEATURE
Have a good thyme
W
e often promise ourselves more quality time, but how
about some real quality thyme? Bodmin Plant and Herb Nursery can bring you the real thing as it celebrates its annual Herb Festival on Saturday and Sunday, April 24 and 25 – a relaxed event for growers and lovers of herbs and herb-based products. The free event pulls together collected local experts, along with their ‘herby’ goods or services. Knowledgeable staff from the five-acre nursery will also be on hand to advise on the growing of herbs and more than 200 varieties of herbs will be for sale, including perennial favourites such as thyme, rosemary and
sage, but also some more unusual varieties such as sugar leaf and burn-jelly plant. Food features highly and Dorset food expert Cheryl Bouchier will once again be enticing taste buds with samples and recipes such as wild rocket and walnut pesto, strawberry and tarragon jam and honey and thyme biscuits.
Herb-based refreshers, such as the famous, classic Mint Mojito will be available, complete with fascinating, yet edible, flower ice-cubes! Enjoy a cooling glass on the day and then why not re- create at home with the recipes and herbs available? Alongside the Herb Salad Bar, Bodmin-based Mount
A proper nursery growing plants with a passion
Specialists in Perennials, Herbs, plus Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Bedding & much more.
Herb Festival Sat 24th
& Sun 25th
01208 72837
Laveddon Mill, Bodmin PL30 5JU
(Between Bodmin & Lanivet on the A389/A391)
www.bodminnursery.co.uk
April
Folly Whole and Cornish Foods will be sampling local herb-based sauces, relishes and mustards. Festival newcomer Stokely Farm Produce will be sampling a specially-created herb sausage as part of its range of quality pork products.
Bude-based Sargie’s Cornish Kitchen will be selling fresh foods including delicious hand-made herb breads and rosemary-baked cheesecakes.
S
easonal jam, jelly and chutney maker Laura Taylor will present her
tasty and inventive range of herb jellies such as rosemary jelly and strawberry and oregano jelly, as well a Moutarde aux fines herbes (herb mustard). Proceeds go to support the RNLI. Devon-based The Cherry Tree (Sunday only) will present their range of cheeses, including variety delights such as mustard and horseradish and herb and garlic.
Local herbalist Maria Holzamer will lead popular periodic herb tours around the nursery and will be on hand to discuss her specialist area of herbal medicine as well as
giving ideas on how to create your own treatments from home-grown herbs. Deborah from Awen Essences will be giving traditional Indian head massages incorporating Cornish flower and tree essences. Hands and feet will not be forgotten with Lanivet- based complementary therapist Carol Miller, who will be offering ‘sample’ foot massages and reflexology as well as hand massages. B Natural Skincare will present their full range including lavender and evening primrose moisturiser and Arnica salve. Alongside B Natural will be So Soapy from the Tamar Valley. Sara from the company will be showing her hand-made soaps, which are made to her special recipes, with such amazing combinations as saffron and bergamot, mint and eucalyptus, and lavender and lemongrass. Sally from Chapman’s Aromatics will present her scented sachets such as lavender and hop sleep sachets, cat mint sachets for the family cat as well as aromatic lavender candles. Local dyeing and spinning enthusiast, Jenny Chapman, will be on-hand to show the...
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