Archive for the 'Holiday Plants' Category

02 Feb

This is a stop that we made during a trip to Maine a couple of years ago…a wonderful picture of antique equipment used to sort cranberries at County Road Cranberry Bogs in Columbia Falls, Maine.  In our travels (which were wherever the road may take us) we came upon this cranberry bog and the husband and wife who [...]

28 Dec

Herbs and Christmas come together when I think about the gifts the wise men brought to Jesus according to the biblical accounts of Christ’s birth.  Two were herbal, and one isn’t an herb, but does have medicinal properties. Frankincense is a resin that is very aromatic, taken from a tree with the botanical name Boswellia [...]

16 Oct

This is a Myrrh tree, it is the resin of the tree that has the medicinal properties. It is a favorite medicinal herb of mine. This may not be something that will find it’s way into many gardens in the US as it’s origin is Arabia. Myrrh is available in essential oil form and is [...]

22 Jul

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 [...]

17 Mar

This pretty picture of Shamrocks was the feature picture of the day on Webshots…I wander over there a lot as both my husband and son like to take pictures and post them to Webshots. But today’s picture was taken by Webshots user lilian101. The name “Shamrock” is actually taken from the Irish word seamrog which [...]