It’s that time of year when a bit of over-indulgence may tip you over the edge. Listen up people! Forget New Year’s resolutions of abstemious diets. What fun is that? Think of me as your post-Christmas fairy godmother and let me introduce you to the wonders of fennel tea.Not uber-exciting at first glance, I grant you but [...]
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Three cheers for fennel!
Posted in herb garden, medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, school gardens, tagged fennel, fennel tea, home remedies, Roamn herb garden on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Soapwort……..what on earth is that?
Posted in herb garden, medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, tagged guerilla gardening, herbs, Jekka McVicar, plants for poor soil, Roman plants, soapwort shampoo on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We like to grow something different every year on the allotment and this year we grew soapwort. I sowed some from seed for a Roman herb garden I planted up with primary school children and had a bit left over. Some founds its way into a sunny space on the allotment and the rest was planted guerilla-style [...]
A potted history of lavender
Posted in feel-good plants, herb garden, medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, tagged lavender, sleep pillows on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on a mission. One of the schools where I work wants to run a project to get the whole school gardening this year and because of the inevitable constraints of time and money I have decided to link this in with their history studies. Dreams of designing Dig For Victory allotments and Victorian Walled Gardens briefly floated through [...]
A Garden of Simples
Posted in food for the soul, herb garden, tagged Lacock Abbey, medicinal herbs on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week we took the apprentices for a stroll around nearby Lacock Abbey (home of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films). Like many National Trust properties during school holidays a ‘trail’ had been arranged. We wound our way around the grounds, walled vegetable garden and cloisters in a bid to find ten ‘simples’ . These [...]
Mayday delights
Posted in family time, feasts and festivals, food for the soul, herb garden, tagged Beltane, Dyrham Park, family time, Hartley Farm shop, herb garden on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love Bank Holiday weekends and particularly this one, marking as it does the start of Summer. As a child I remember the May fair and my mother making up a basket of flowers for a neighbour who was housebound. This year it’s been my turn, although the baskets were of herbs not flowers. I was [...]
Coughs and sneezes….
Posted in herb garden, medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, tagged herb teas, natural medicine on February 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I thought that near Arctic temperatures were meant to kill off all the bugs. Not so in West Wiltshire it seems. The last few days have seen a gradual increase in the level of coughing around the playground and today two of the usually irrepressible apprentices succumbed and took to their sickbeds, or in their cases huddled on the [...]
