How to grow Sweet Woodruff

Galium odoratum

Full Shade
OR
Dappled Sun
Very High

Harvesting Sweet woodruff

Harvest the leaves for tea or for May Wine. Select blemish-free, young growth.

How long does Sweet woodruff take to grow?

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Sweet woodruff Folklore & Trivia

Traditionally used to make May Wine in Germany, with strawberries and sweet white wine. Called ‘waldmeister’ in Germany. The aroma is used for flavouring and colouring bright green waldmeister jelly (Götterspeise).

Other names for Sweet woodruff

Sweetscented bedstraw

Asperule odorante