ACCENT: The secret is the Manitoulin soil
The tall upstart blue agapanthus rustling in the breeze of Jean Narozanski's Manitoulin Island garden clearly doesn't know its place. More commonly known as Lily of the Nile, the South African native is a real eye-catcher and something of a conversation starter this far north.[...]
Rich pickings: foragers' recipes
How to find the ingredients for, and cook five simple and delicious forager's dishes including bramble mousse and chestnut macaroons Nettle soup Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) Description: Upright perennial, to 1.5 metres. Leaves heart-shaped, opposite on stem, serrated edge, covered in stinging hairs. Stems tough and fibrous, also with stinging hairs Habitat: Woods, waste ground, hedgerow ...
