(Courtesy photo)
Beauty combined with true usefulness is a hallmark of many wild/native flowers and their modern-day cultivars. Cases in point are members of the viola family, which include our pictured pansies, Johnny Jump-ups, and violets.
January 26, 2020
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When is a ‘weed’ not a weed? When it’s an herb!
In my vast collection of herbal/gardening books that date back to the 1600s with Culpeper and Gerard, and continue with a historical early American compendium on the plantings from the time of the pilgrims and on to the present, I have gleaned incredible information regarding the benefits of plants that are today overlooked or relegated to the classification of “weeds.”