If you want to make your favourite dishes even more delicious, plant some herbs in pots.

While we enjoy spending time with our loved ones at home, we can plant some fruits that can grow in a pot.

While we enjoy spending time with our loved ones at home, we can plant some fruits that can grow in a pot.

Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) is a small tree, up to five meters, with ivory white flowers of pleasant scent which form inflorescence. It flowers between May and July, so now is the right time to harvest it.

The Latin name of this plant means Achilles’ herb of thousand leaves and comes from the legend that Achilles used this herb to treat his wounds. In ancient books on medicinal herbs it is described as “a cure for all diseases”.

Lemon balm tea has a very pleasant scent of lemon. Lemon balm leaves, also known as Mellisa, have sedating, anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties.

Rosehip is a perennial deciduous shrub that can grow between 1 and 5 meters. Young branches are covered in thorns, similar to other roses. The flowers are white or pink, which bear small oval fruit, for which this plant is best known.

Next time when you go for a hike in oak or beech forests, look around and search for porcini and chanterelle mushrooms.