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RE: How to make a wreath from twigs
You're finished wreath looks great! It looks like you wrapped more twigs around it, to finish it off. And I think I can follow your tutorial - you make it look pretty easy!
It's good to get to know the birch trees, isn't it? Their twigs are so flexible for your wreaths, their bark is so reliable for starting fires and it's good for crafts, too. Their late winter/early spring sap is good for making tea or syrup. Their young, tender leaves are good to put into salads in the early spring. The twigs of the sweet birch (Betula lenta) are great for making tea, too - they are like wintergreen! And there are some great wild mushrooms that grow on or around birch, too. Here's to the birch trees - they offer us a lot! Happy holidays!
Thank you!! And yes I added some more twigs, I wanted to get a bit more volume than what I thought would be enough initially.
And thanks for sharing about all the other things you can do with birch. I have never eaten the leaves as a salad. I will do that this spring. And I am not sure if you have the same mushrooms in Oregon but the one which grow here are called birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum) and they are so delicious. I have some dried ones in my kitchen from this years mushroom picking and I always add them to all sort of stews and to soups.
We have the same birch boletes in Oregon, but I don't have any in my own yard -- yet. I planted some birch trees, so maybe someday I will have them right at home. Here's a post where I am using birch leaves in a salad - here. The season is short before they have too much tannin in them, but while they are young and tender, they are good! If you eat them this spring, you can write a taste review! :D
Oh this is great!! Thanks for the link to your post!! I will definitely make the taste review :D.
And I also hope you can have some birch boletes in your yard soon. We sometimes pick old and eaten by warms mushrooms from the forest, than we bury them under the trees. So that the mycelium will spread. I don't know if it is actually working but we keep on doing that and each season we are able to pick up more and more mushrooms.
I have planted some good mushroom trees in my yard - hoping that the mushrooms will follow. And it seems to be working - with the Slippery Jacks and and a couple others. But I'm still waiting for mushrooms under my birch trees and larches, lol. I should get some old mushrooms from the forest and bring them home! :D