The botanical name for this spiny bush, shrub, or small tree is Cratageus oxyancanthoides. Though it is native to the Mediterranean, it is cultivated worldwide. Wildlife enjoy it as a safe place to take cover, and as a food source. The bush flowers in the spring, and the berries are ready to harvest in early [...]
Horsetail goes by the botanical name Equisetum arvense. Though native to Europe, we have it all over in the area where I live, in Northern NJ, perhaps because we are in a lake community and the herb loves moist soil. When you drive out of our community, it grows heavily along the roadway beside another [...]
I visited a site recently that has pure medicinal products, and makes the claim that their products are proven effective in medical studies. Since they use medicinal formulas from the earth, I was naturally drawn to the site. Now this particular site deals with remedies for such things as cold sores, warts, Genital Herpes (caused [...]
I remember as a young girl a large bush my mother had with small flowers that formed large and pretty round blue or white clusters of flowers called a Hydrangea bush. The kind that you can cut and dry if you wish for a dried flower arrangement. In this post, we’re referring to the [...]
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 [...]
