The Nativity Orchard
The Nativity Orchard In a drowsy Mississippi town Beckoning to the past We walk through memories With tears and laughter “There is where I was born…” “That little house…look how …
The Daily Dose: Periwinkle
Wintergreen, (Gaultheria Procumbens, Ericaceae Family) Common Name: Periwinkle, Spice Berry, Deerberry, Teaberry Medicinal Part: The Whole Plant, particularly the leaf Description: Wintergreen is a low growing, broad-leaved, evergreen plant with …
The Daily Dose: Mountain Holly
Mountain Holly (Ilex aquifolium, Holly Family) Common Name: European Holly Medicinal Part: The Leaves Description: Mountain holly is a tree with very glossy and wavy, spiny leaves, umbellate clusters of …
The Daily Dose: Five-Finger Grass
Five-Finger Grass: (Potentilla Canadensis, Rose Family) Common Name: Cinque-foil Medicinal Part: The Root and Leaves Description: This perennial plant has a procumbent stem from two to eighteen inches in length. …
The Daily Dose: American Hellebore
American Hellebore: Verstrum viride, Bunchflower Family Common Names: Green Hellebore, Indian Poke, Itch-Weed Medicinal Part: The Rhizome Description: This plant has a perennial, thick, and fleshy rhizome, tunicated at the …
Thoughts on Roots and a Root Harvesting Mindset
I ask, “How many of you have a hard time gathering the roots of the echinacea, the rudbeckia, the black and blue cohosh, the wild ginger…oh goodness help us all…the …
The Hunter’s Moon
? In Georgia, we have been blessed with rain after a trying time of drought. So, we cannot see the beautiful full moon tonight. Maybe we will have an opportunity …
An Ode to Mystical Transitions and Odd Unevens
Sweet Autumn Clematis in an After Storm Mist: An Ode to Mystical Transitions and Odd Unevens “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet …
Budding Rhododendron
Rhododendron viscosum: Swamp azalea, clammy azalea, honeysuckle azalea “You must stand still; and then you will see open lips and furtive glances, tender fingers, and raised arms, the fragility of …
Mother’s Day in the Garden
“The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.” William Goldsmith Brown An early blooming of Motherwort – the lion-hearted mother’s herb Botanical name: Leonurus cardiaca …