Basswood Honey

My favorite tree around this time of year is Basswood -- their bloom is just finishing up now and they have a sweet, light herbal/spicy scent. Our village has a ton of them planted as street trees and they bloomed first. On our street there's one that blooms a week or two later than the rest, and it's really the bee-tree. You can hear it humming as you approach. Seems like the ones in the village don't attract the bees as much for some reason.

Got some basswood honey at the farmers market last week and I'm planning to make a metheglin with it -- basically a spiced honey wine. The scent of the flowers comes through in the honey and I want to see what it'll do as wine.