Wild

Flowers on the wild strawberries. Exciting!

You can make a tea from the leaves which, according to various herbals will cure just about anything. The best bit is the fruit though. It tastes unbelievable. So much flavour packed into such a tiny fruit. Cultivated strawberries grow more and bigger fruit and are tidier plants. I am sticking with my wild ones though!

I discovered last year that Blackbirds like wild strawberries too. Not to eat. Though they may possibly have liked to eat the fruit had they not carried half my plants away to build nests with..
This year the plants are bigger and not so easliy flown off with.