We’ve all had moments of déjà vu. Recently, while working alongside Pooja Pant, a former research scientist at the National Arboretum and a ...
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Garlic chives, Allium tuberosum, are one of the versatile herbs that belong in every garden. It is a tasty culinary plant with a light ...
The question often comes up regarding how people knew which plants had medicinal value and what conditions they could be used to treat. It’s ...
October is often dominated by pumpkins but there is another vegetable that deserves a bit of the spotlight at this time of year: garlic!
Garlic, ...
This year, my autumn garden has taken on a life of its own, far from the orderly vision I had in mind. The weeds, once a nuisance, now ...
I love weeds. There, I said it. Don’t worry, I do pull them (there’s a reason why they’re called weeds, after all) but I am much more likely to ...
Garlic, Allium sativum, is The Herb Society’s Herb of the Month for September. This is the time to get excited about garlic if you want to grow ...
Springtime is my favorite time of year because the earth awakens and sends up green growing plants, which provide us with the first garden ...
With encouragement from the HSA Native Herb Conservation Committee and the GreenBridges™ project, our HSA Board of Directors joined more than ...
My mother always flavored her delicious apple pies with allspice. She did this with good reason since allspice carries the flavors of cinnamon, ...
What’s in a name? If that name is yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus), the answer is a lot of frustration, and a lot of little tubers that ...
It’s All Hallows Night…the time when the veils between the worlds are at their thinnest, the time when we walk around not quite alone in the ...
Lemon balm, that delightfully lemony herb, has been used medicinally for centuries. The many beneficial properties of Melissa officinalis were ...
Basil, Ocimum basilicum, still reigns today as the King of Herbs. Its royalty was established by the Greeks, when they gave the herb its name ...
Basil, Ocimum basilicum, still reigns today as the King of Herbs. Its royalty was established by the Greeks, when they gave the herb its name ...
I was sitting here at my desk trying to think of what I could say about the Winter Solstice that I have never said before. Then I started to ...
Foodscaping--it’s so simplistic. In its most basic form, it is landscaping with an edible twist. It’s the intersection of the purely ornamental ...
I’m not talking about time travel. Nowruz—the equivalent of the New Year—was just celebrated on the spring equinox in Iran as well as in ...
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