Grandmother Pine

I recently bemoaned the fact that in January, there really isn’t a great deal of plant life around to write … More

Burdock – The Silver Lady

I absolutely love Burdock (Arctium lappa). Odd thing, really, because like Dandelion (which I also adore) she has the tendency … More

I’ve always loved this particular pre raphaelite painting. Not only is the use of colour just delightful, but it seems … More

I will be the first to put up my hand and say that I have a long standing, extremely poor … More

Here in Britain we have a reasonable amount of useful tonic herbs – and at the recent Springfield herb sanctuary … More

I’ve always had rather a soft spot for the lovely and graceful rowan tree, which has had many different names … More

Most people in the herbal world are probably already aware that over here in the UK there have been some … More

Long considered a plant that grows on the boundaries between life and death, the red poppy, known by the Assyrians … More

June has arrived, and brought with it a slight slow up of the huge volume of plants to pick and … More