Echinacea Purpurea plants, also known as cone flowers are actually something lacking in my garden. My mother has some beautiful plants that look just like the one pictured, the purple cone flower, known for the medicinal properties of enhancing the immune system. (I use Echinacea and Golden Seal often for different infections, and during season [...]
It has been a while since I focused in on an herb, not necessarily because it is growing in my garden, but because of my 20+ year fascination with herbs, and their culinary and medicinal properties. This picture, used with permission, shows the bushy plant with it’s berries that goes by the botanical name ruscus [...]
What a cold Spring day it is today here in northern NJ, but that isn’t stopping the high tree pollen count as the trees begin to bud, and the growth of my tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinths, crocuses and other assorted spring bulbs. Many of my perennial herbs are coming up as well.Today I want to [...]
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 [...]
In the mild November we experienced in 2007, I shared a bit about to an interesting Blueberry store, including a picture, on my Happy Nutritionist’s Nuggets blog…there was hardly a thing in the store that wasn’t in some way related to Blueberries. Maine is one of the best places to pick blueberries in MHO, they [...]
