Henriette's herbal blog: It's a drop dose tincture.

Henriette's herbal blog: There's lots of ways to make chives vinegar.

Henriette's herbal blog: Usually, people pick just the flowers.

Henriette's herbal blog: Mmmm, myrrh and calamus and rose.

Henriette's herbal blog: Yes, the cuphea is sometimes called heather. More often it's false heather, though.

Henriette's herbal blog: Now I know the difference between the two bunchberries.

Henriette's herbal blog: The color of St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is purple.

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Henriette's herbal blog: A different use of the plant?

Henriette's herbal blog: No, I really don't think that Hildegard von Bingen made ginseng salves.

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Henriette's herbal blog: The green seeds of sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata) are perfectly nice candy.

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Henriette's herbal blog: It's easy to pick great willowherb in quantity.

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Henriette's herbal blog: There's a nature preserve a few hundred meters thataway...

Henriette's herbal blog: Elementary botany, series A.

Henriette's herbal blog: There's a trick to drying burdock leaf.

Henriette's herbal blog: Very tasty, are green elm seeds.

Henriette's herbal blog: Valerians have such small roots it's a wonder the plants stay upright.

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Henriette's herbal blog: I wouldn't.

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