Elderflower champagne

Plenty of elderflower here - in fact its starting to go yellow and a bit past its best.

I must admit I haven't been looking at bushes whilst walking Kato? I am just going by the two Sambuca Nigra which I have in the garden which are just starting to come into flower?

I made elderflower cordial two weeks ago, the elderflowers this year have been spectacular, bushes everywhere absolutely covered, and the scent gloriously sweet (most of them, the odd shrub here and there is stinky - does it depend on the soil/location, or are there different strains, like with blackberries, I wonder)

Yep, checked on my morning walk this morning and the bushes I frequent in the woods are just about ready to flower?  I could of course make pink elderflower champers with my pink rubra flowers in the garden but I would rather not spoil the show!  There are hundrds of varieties each with there own colour and taste of flowers.

Well,  that's all of  last years elderflower consumed now (seems to get tastier with age and mixed with cheap lemonade is very refreshing!) Just need to gather a few bottles together and wait for the elderflowers around here to come fully into bloom now, and a sunny day to pick them would be nice!

I listen to you guys in envy. There's not that much elder here.