1. Damsons, sweeter and larger than sloes, grow all over Lancashire, north Wales and Cumbria. Collected and sweetened they make excellent jams, sweet wine, and, my favourite, damson gin [Childwall, Liverpool, April 2013].
Image: Hackbridge station, London Borough of Sutton; August 2014.
DISCLAIMER: The cures and other uses on this site are recorded as they were received.