Ramsons / Bear Garlic (Allium Ursinum)

that ants like to carry the ramsons seeds and spread the plant that way - as ist spreads generatively very often, which means via its seeds, although it's a bulbous plant.

The plant's name doesn't only come from the fact that the leaves and small bulbs are said to have health-promoting features ("Bear Garlic makes strong") but also because folk legend tells that, after their hibernation, bears were first searching the bear garlic stand of the forest to take some refreshment.

Culinarily speaking, not only the leaves, which are often used for salads or pesto, or the bulbs, which can be used analog to garlic, are relevant - it's the white blossoms which also are edible and can be used for decorative issues in the kitchen.

Furthermore, bear garlic offers all the health benefits his cultivated relative has: It's antibacterial, reduces the blood pressure and is very healthy in general.

Allium Ursinum seeds, content: Approx. 100 Bear Garlic seeds