What Grows Out There?
My midwife gifted me with many wonderful plants to add to my garden beds – mostly of the medicinal variety. This has inspired me to go around my yard in the next weeks (and continue through the Summer as we plant and harvest) to create an inventory, if you will, of what we have growing on our little urban farm.
Just on Sunday I added:
Bee Balm (medicinal)
Sweet Woodruff (magical)
more Raspberries (medicinal/food)
Phlox (flowers)
Bleeding Heart (flowers)
Peppermint (medicinal)
Motherwort (medicinal)
Hyssop (medicinal)
Snap & Snow Peas (food)
Nasturtiums (medicinal/edible flowers)
and
Curry Plant (culinary herb/medicinal?)
And that’s just the new plants as of the weekend. That doesn’t even touch on the new and expanded culinary herb bed, all the gardening we’ve done in the past 3-4 years, or anything that was here when we moved in. Much to do and there is never enough gardening time for me.
April 21st, 2009 saat: 4:53 am
Sweet woodruff, like most magical plants, doesn’t have to be confined to one deliniation. It can be used as a soothing tea and is also a useful strewing herb – it contains curcumin(can’t spell) which makes the new mown hay smell but only after the plant is dried. Every herb has an energetic as well as a practical application. Thistles can be useful energetically for boundaries as can yarrow. It’s flowering in my garden at the moment and runs everywhere like mint!
April 21st, 2009 saat: 11:44 am
I absolutely agree with you about each plant having many different possibilities. In this post I listed only the primary reason(s) for that particular plant. In the case of the Woodruff – my husband loves to make May Wine for our Beltane Celebration.
And the constituent is spelled Courmarin.