Learn how to grow borage the benefits of why you should add this uncommon herb to your garden! It's easy to grow too!
Plan and plant your own healing medicinal herb garden this summer to help customize your specific medical needs all year long.
From a mixture of edible perennials we conserve the summer as tea.
Looking for flowering herbs to plant in your herb garden? Here are 10 easy to grow herb plants with beautiful bright flowers.
If you enjoy herbal tea, you will love growing and preserving your own. In this guide, we'll explore how to grow your own herbal tea garden.
11 Medicinal plants you can grow indoors in the winter. Herbal uses and care tips for healthy plants.
An herbal tea garden is not only a pretty addition to an outdoor space, but it can save you money. Have you see the price of tea these days?
Yeah, I can see you giving me that raised eyebrow look. There she goes again with her fancy plant names. Actually I do not think that this one is fancy at all, it is probably just of the many herbs that you have not encountered yet. Having said that, let us look at how to
I love my edible tea garden - it's a perfect butterfly and bee garden for pollinators AND humans! Here are the flowers PLUS free resources..
Your garden will appreciate the addition of Chamomile and their fresh flowers that benefit other plants in their proximity [DETAILS]
Learn how to grow chamomile from seed, and enjoy the benefits that this calm and soothing herb will bring at harvest.
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Thyme is an amazing herb that has culinary and medicinal uses as well as being good for the garden. Learn all the reasons to grow thyme!
Think water is boring...? Yep, me too. Check out some fun ways to punch up the flavor in your glass with these flavored ice cubes!
Many herbs possess medicinal and healing properties when eaten, used for tea, or in herbal medicine. Here are nine to keep on hand.
This list of herbs that grow in shade is perfect if you don't have a lot of sunlight. Here you'll find lots of options for a low-light garden.
Sage tea is made by infusing the dried or fresh leaves of the sage plant (Salvia officinalis). Sage can be easily grown in the garden for homemade tea blends.
All about growing and using lemongrass. Learn how to take care of your own lemongrass plants and grow and make your own tea!
The very best chamomile companion plants are detailed here; from brassicas to flowers. Here's what you will want near your chamomile.
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) is an expensive spice that comes from the seed of the perennial plant cardamom or cardamum. This plant is a relative of ginger and turmeric of the Zingiberaceae family that grows in temperate and sub-tropical climates. The seeds are the most valuable part of the plant that are consumed either in whole…
How to grow and harvest chamomile for tea and medicine. It's super easy to plant and maintain chamomile once you know how! One established, just a few plants will give you plenty of chamomile flowers to harvest.
Hibiscus sabdariffa creates the famous calyx used for tea. I grow this plant in my zone 6 so learn how to grow hibiscus to make your own tea.
What could be better than having fresh herbs in your garden return every spring? Growing perennial herbs in your garden means you can reap the benefits of growing edible and medicinal herbs from one growing
Medicinal plants and healing herbs are a great addition to the garden. Find out which ones are best to grow.
A beginner's guide to growing and harvesting and preserving thyme! Thyme has many benefits and is an easy to grow herb for your garden.
Designing Your Herb Garden discusses design ideas for theme gardens and color selections. Selections of medicinal gardens, fairy gardens, tea gardens, etc.
Caraway is a biennial herb that’s best known for its aromatic seeds. Learn all you need to know to grow this plant in your garden, here on Gardener’s Path.
Perennial herbs are a great addition to any garden. Whether you live in a warm or cold climate, you'll find lots of options on this list.
Anise plant is a Southern European and Mediterranean herb whose taste is reminiscent of licorice. Growing anise in the herb garden provides a ready source of the seed. Learn more in this article.
Lemon verbena has a refreshing taste and can be used in many herbal recipes. From sun tea to infused vinegar to glycerin tincture, you are sure to use it all
I feel like I should preface this by saying that I am not an expert. Everything you’ll find here is what I gathered from my own research and experience. And if you have any questions, feel free to …
"Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them" quotes A.A. Milne, author of childhood literature Winnie the Pooh. It is easy to pass this wildly growing bush as a weed. However, this apparent weed is the useful Panadol Plant. Panadol-Spreading Succulent Herb "Panadol" with active ingredient paracetamol, has become a household name as a brand of pharmaceutic pain relievers. The active ingredients of pharmaceuticals are plant derived. However, I have found not yet found any information that the "Panadol" brand is derived from the panadol plant. But what a fortunate coincidence if it were! Pain relief purposes are the same for both plant and drug. According to this source it is also used to treat tooth and gum disease. Panadol upclose A low spreading herb in the mint family, the scent is nothing light and refreshing like peppermint or basil. This smells like medicine. Older folk say that the more odious the scent, the better for the body. One whiff of this herb is sufficient to heal. At the imagined taste of the actual brewed leaves, you will instantly begin to imagine yourself well. Suddenly, you are not sick enough for medicine. Alas, that excuse does not work well when you are in the care of parents. Panadol grows well in full sunlight As if it was not enough to learn that Panadol is a plant, it was awesome to observe the beautiful flowers that the plant produces. Panadol Plant Flowers The photos in this post were shot at Soufriere, Saint Lucia. Additional sources: Panadol Plant
It has been a while since we added something new to the herb garden. It's Spring time again, and that got me thinking, since last year I learnt how to grow marjoram and how to grow fennel, maybe this year we should try something different. After doing a little research, I decided to give growing
Discover yarrow tea benefits and you'll want to keep it stocked in your pantry. This tea comes from one of the most storied medicinal plants in history.
Botanical Name: Centaurea cyanus. Other Common Names: Bachelor's button, blueblow, blue cap, blue poppy, bluebonnets, bluebottle, hurtsickle, kornblomst (Danish), Kornblume (German), blåklint (Swedish), Kornblom (Norwegian), kornblóm (Icelandic), azulejo (Spanish), bleuet, casse lunette (French), ruiskaunokki (Finnish). Habitat: Originating in Mediterranean Europe and Western Asia, cornflowers must have entered Great Britain sometime during the Iron Age, where it is first found in the archaeological record. Its spread to Australia and many Northern Hemisphere countries including the United States and Canada was facilitated by agricultural exports from its native habitat. It is now endangered in its native habitats due to modern agricultural practices,
An entirely underused perennial is the wood betony (Stachys officinalis) which really is a tough and durable plant with plenty of visual appeal. The variety ‘Hummelo’ can be seen above … Continue reading "Wood Betony (Stachys officinalis)"
