He explained that later in the year when it is in season, he will return to pick the yellow gorse flowers (which have a distinct coconut taste) to use in meat marinades and Thai curries, as well as burdock root, which is popular in Japanese cooking and can be used for vegetable soups or mixed with dandelion to make a root beer-like soft drink.

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Sondra Wells of the Napa Botanical Bakery, in Napa, CA, notes that foragers roam to hand-pick fennel flowers in the California hills, after the bees have visited.

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We drove home in silence, and when he parked in our long driveway I stayed back to pick some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door.

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About a half-hour drive to the west is the fifth-generation Bunnell Farm where you can pick your own flowers or embark on horse-drawn hay and tractor rides.

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