Recipes from trees and shrubs: tea, syrup, jam and more

What to harvest from trees and shrubs, and when: elderflower syrup, lime-blossom tea, birch sap, jams, liqueurs and skincare, with storing and fermenting.

Almond

American cranberry

Anise

Anise hyssop

Apple

Apple mint

Apple rose

Apricot

Arctic raspberry

Ash

Bamboo

Barberry

Bay laurel

Beech

Bilberry

Black chokeberry

Black cumin

Black mulberry

Black pine

Black raspberry

Black walnut

Blackcurrant

Blackthorn

Bladder campion

Bloody dock

Blue sausage fruit

Bog bilberry

Bog-myrtle

Borage

Bramble

Burnet rose

Canary creeper

Cape gooseberry

Caraway

Catnip

Caucasian lime

Cherry plum

Chilean guava

Chinese magnolia vine

Chinese quince

Chocolate vine

Clary sage

Common evening primrose

Common juniper

Common lilac

Common lime

Common mallow

Common myrtle

Common pink

Common sage

Common sorrel

Common vervain

Cornelian cherry

Corsican mint

Costmary

Cowberry

Cowslip

Crab apple

Crowberry

Crown daisy

Cuckooflower

Curry plant

Daisy

Damask rose

Date-plum

Dog rose

Douglas fir

Downy birch

Duke of Argyll’s teaplant

Elder

Elecampane

English lavender

English oak

European nettle tree

European silver fir

False acacia

Fenugreek

Field-rose

Fig

Filbert

Flowering quince

French lavender

French sorrel

Garden angelica

Garden cress

Garden orache

Garden rose

Garden thyme

Garlic chives

German chamomile

Gooseberry

Grapevine

Hardy kiwi

Hawthorn

Hazel

Heartsease

Heather

Highbush blueberry

Holy basil

Honeyberry

Hop

Horseradish

Hybrid black poplar

Hyssop

Japanese apricot

Japanese cherry

Japanese cornel

Japanese crab apple

Japanese persimmon

Japanese plum

Japanese rose

Japanese wineberry

Jostaberry

Judas tree

Jujube

Kiwi fruit

Korean mint

Kousa dogwood

Kumquat

Lady’s bedstraw

Large pink

Large-leaved lime

Lavandin

Lemon

Lemon basil

Lemon thyme

Lemon verbena

Lemongrass

Lesser calamint

Lime

Liquorice

Loganberry

Loquat

Love-lies-bleeding

Mandarin

Marsh mallow

Meadow clary

Meadowsweet

Medlar

Mexican tarragon

Midland hawthorn

Moldavian dragonhead

Musk mallow

Musk strawberry

Nanking cherry

Nashi pear

Norway spruce

Oleaster

Olive tree

Orange daylily

Oregon grape

Passion fruit

Pawpaw

Peach

Pear

Peppermint

Perilla

Pineapple

Pineapple guava

Pineapple sage

Plum

Pomegranate

Purple chokeberry

Quince

Raspberry

Red chokeberry

Redcurrant

Roman chamomile

Rosebay willowherb

Rosemary

Rowan

Saffron crocus

Salad burnet

Scarlet beebalm

Scots pine

Sea buckthorn

Service tree

Sessile oak

Siberian crab apple

Silver birch

Silver lime

Silver maple

Small-leaved lime

Snowy mespilus

Society garlic

Sour cherry

Southernwood

Spanish sage

Spearmint

Stevia

Strawberry tree

Sugar maple

Summer savory

Swedish whitebeam

Sweet chestnut

Sweet cicely

Sweet marjoram

Sweet violet

Sweet woodruff

Sweet-briar

Turkish hazel

Valerian

Variegated kiwi vine

Vietnamese coriander

Walnut

Water chestnut

Weymouth pine

White horehound

White mulberry

Whitebeam

Wild cherry

Wild garlic

Wild pear

Wild service tree

Wild strawberry

Winter savory

Yellowhorn

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