Meadowsweet is found in boggy areas and verges, and is likely one of Rhynie’s oldest wild plants. It has been found in bronze age burials and its name is associated with mead, the ancient fermented honey drink flavoured with meadowsweet. The creamy flowers of the plant offer not only a vanilla and wintergreen aromatic flavouring to sweet drinks and teas, but also helps treat a headache and gastric conditions. We use it to make tea and to flavour Rhynie rootbeer.