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| Manuka flowering |
Manuka - the honey from it seems to have taken the world by storm in the last decade or two, requires you to take out a second mortgage to afford any, and tastes vile. Raised on clover honey (which many would describe as bland - I call it subtle) I hated the manuka stuff as much 50 years ago (and well before it gained international celebrity status) as I do now. It's like eating liniment flavoured honey. If you have ever rubbed tea-tree oil on your skin you will know what I mean.
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| Bee-eye view of manuka flower |
The flowers are pretty though and pink and red version have been developed and cultivated as garden plants.
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| Marble-leaf |
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| Marble-leaf up close |
Hmmm... I have never tried it as we eat our local honey, but you haven't tempted me to taste it!!
ReplyDeleteLocal is best - support local beekeepers
DeleteI love the taste! Kānuka is similar but not so strong..or so effective apparently.
ReplyDeleteI do like strong tasting honey though... Chestnut is divine!!
Kanuka makes better tea and is a good flavour for smoking fish. I'm wondering if I can smoke the kanuka to make tea like lapsang...
DeleteManuka honey is supposed to have all sorts of medicinal properties.
ReplyDeleteBut Manuka is a tea tree. If you named it. Tee tree honey. It wouldn’t sell have as well
As I don’t like honey, at all. I wouldn’t know the difference between them.
Last winter when covid and flu and horrible colds were going around , Manuka honey was suggested along with the most foul bitter mushroom powder and ginger, in a "tea"...I think that people got well in a hurry so that they would not feel the need to swallow that anymore. Anyway, we bought some Manuka honey from Cost Co and it was well affordable. It has not been opened...yet. will see about it when winter comes bring every virus ever invented with it.
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting flower.
Hari Om
ReplyDeleteIt makes a good wound healer..... and blended with cold cream is good for flaking skin. I do actually quite like the taste, though a good clover honey is every bit as delicious! YAM xx
Honey is said to be good for taking plant cuttings. Tea Tree oil is amazing for healing things.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are very pretty. I wouldn't know about the taste - I don't like honey at all.
ReplyDeleteOdd but just recently, I could not get the pure maple honey from Canada that i have used for a long time, and purchased New Hamshire pure maple and wow, the difference in taste, the new one is STRONG and dark and i much prefer the old one. I use it for the only sweetener i eat. I just this week was able to get the old one, woo hoo. I get it, some like dark coffee some do not, I suppose honey and syrup are the same. the flowers are beatuiful
ReplyDeleteGood morning
ReplyDeleteWe have lots and lots of bee keepers in our area. Even one of the very popular Angus Barn
has a lovely bee garden with many informative signs. I like clover honey in hot tea and on
buttery bread
Hugs Cecilia
We buy honey regular, it's great for when you are sick. I'm all for planting flowers that attract the bees too.
ReplyDeleteI recently had to remove a honey stain from a carpet. The owner said it was pretty expensive stuff and now I kind of wonder if it was Manuka. From your description, sounds like it was better on the floor than in his belly haha I think we'll be sticking to lavender based honey.
ReplyDeleteCan't afford it. But interesting comments on Manuka honey but no one has said they feel better by taking it.
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