Syrup
Wildflower Honey
A tier
Wildflower honey is a season's mixed forage, not a single bloom. Colour and flavour swing with the hedge: spring batches run light and floral, late-summer ones darker and more herbal. A good jar still tastes of honey, not of smoke or fermentation. The label is honest only if the bees were on mixed pasture. Use it when you want more character than clover without committing to buckwheat or manuka. It browns well on roast carrots and holds its own in ginger cake. Do not expect two years' jars to match.
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Most early honey was wildflower by default: bees foraged what bloomed.
Packers began labelling mixed-forage honey as wildflower against single-crop clover.
Farmers-market wildflower jars made seasonal swing a selling point.
Traceable mixed-forage honeys sat beside named monoflorals on specialist shelves.