The secret world of cowslips! 💛
Cowslips also known as cowslops or fairy cups are cousin to the primrose & once upon a time you'd find them growing as abundantly as the buttercup! 😱
Cowslips are incredible & are actually classed as an edible & Medicinal herb 🌿
You can eat the leaves raw or cook them like a veggie & the flowers can be made into sweet teas & wines. ☕🍾
The cowslip in herbalsim is considered an excellent sedative the plant has been traditionally used to help with sleeping problems as well as coughs & headaches.
The wine also used to be given to children in small quantities as "medicine" Probably to naughty children at bedtime too 🤣
BUT SADLY! We can't collect cowslips for wine or sleepy effects anymore because there numbers have dramatically declined due to the expansion of farming & destruction of habitat ☹️
But there is good news on the horizon the population is now recovering with time & people planting more cowslips! We can still enjoy this wildflower but let's grow them at home for teas & wines while wild cowslips slowly recover back to the abundance they used to be!