- January 6, 2025
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Bay

Among the many recommendations for seasonal herbs in our recent newsletter, bay was a popular choice. It has been much in use through our festivities, but deserves to be kept at hand ongoing into the New Year. Year round sunshine If you have a bay tree in your garden you can access fresh bay leaves all ...
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- November 5, 2024
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Is Ginkgo your Go-To for Memory?

In this season of remembrance, we’re taking a look at a herb that has become renowned with enhancing memory and cognitive ability: Ginkgo biloba, which you may also know as the Maidenhair tree. Ginkgo autumn colour Ginkgo is especially beautiful at this time of the year, its fan-shaped leaves turn yellow and scatter gracefully as they ...
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- July 13, 2024
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A Tale of Two Clovers

A friend asked me ‘what’s the difference between red clover and white clover?’ I love this kind of simple question. In truth they deserve a simple answer, how about: ‘Red clover is used medicinally, white clover isn’t’. It answers the question, but it provokes a bigger question still: Why? That’s when the deep dive begins. Curiosity piqued, ...
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- May 1, 2024
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Is the answer blowing in the wind?

The pasqueflower is beloved of herbalists. A beautiful seasonal herb, it combines startling brilliance with wispy fragility. Medicinally it has very specific uses and requires much care in administration. Similarly, acquiring supplies of pasqueflower requires much care. It is rare in the UK so should not be gathered in the wild, instead, herbalists will ...
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- March 15, 2024
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Violets in the Spring

Gerard summed up violets as ‘delightfull to looke upon and pleasant to smell’ Sweet violets These are the qualities that have ensured violets have a familiar place in our hearts and are perhaps one of the best know wild flowers. As Culpeper agrees, they are ‘so well known they need no description’. Apart from the small ...
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- February 19, 2024
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Radiant Rowan

Words by Kayleigh Sinclair --- Radiant Rowan! Although the Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) has the common name of mountain ash, it is not related to the Ash tree but takes its name from the similarity between the pinnate leaves arranged alternatively with a terminal leaf at the end. A relatively hardy plant and native to the British Isles, it ...
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