I learned something that I didn’t know before…or it had been lost somewhere in the storehouse of herbal knowledge I’ve acquired, and that is that Juniper Berries, though available as a single herb, are best used in an herbal combination. It’s the little berries from the juniper plant that you see pictured that are used. [...]
This is a picture of my beautiful daughter and her dear husband on their wedding day. I can’t imagine that in this blog about gardening and related things, I haven’t mentioned my daughter’s garden wedding. She was married and exchanged wedding rings with her honey at the NJ Botanical Gardens, it was a picture perfect [...]
Kava kava goes by the botanical name, Piper methysticum, is a member of the pepper family. It grows in the South Pacific, from Hawaii to the New Guinea. The parts used medicinally are the roots and rhizome. James Cook first described the plant in an account of his voyage in the South Seas in 1768. [...]
“Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink”, says the familiar line from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, reminding us that you can be surrounded by water, in this case sea water, as far as the eye can see, yet drinking it has the potential of being harmful. It goes without saying that [...]
We where in Maine in November of 2007 when this picture was taken. It was a mild fall, and a very late one, if you remember. We spent some time in the tide pools during low tide looking for sea creatures, and there is no shortage of kelp! We spent the night in Kittery, Maine, and [...]
