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Over the past couple of years, our town has formed a sustainable gardening group, and have taken a plot of unused land in our Township, and turned it into something useful and beautiful. There is also a beautiful “island” of flowers in the middle of the traffic light interchange in the middle of our town [...]
What beautiful yellow flowers for an herb that sounds like it is a blemish on Saint Actually, the word is “wort”, not “wart”, which is an old English word that means root or plant. It is named after St. John the Baptist of the Bible. The botanical name for the plant we are focusing on [...]
I was contacted last week by someone who wanted to trade some seeds for some of my mint, and it reminded me that I’ve been having so much fun posting to the blog, that I’ve wandered a bit from one of the purposes of this site. That is providing a place for people who have [...]
This wonderful, sweet herb used to grow in my garden (though the picture is not from my garden) and I hope to try again this year when it gets a little warmer. I planted it for the first time two years ago, and hoped it would winter over, but unfortunately, it didn’t. The scientific name [...]
This posting is about the variety of Wood Betony that goes by the botanical name Betonica officinalis or Staychys botanica. Isn’t this a beautiful picture? It was borrowed from Wikipedia. Like many medicinal herbs, this one has a list of historical uses, but the one that is most prominent in my thinking and experience is [...]