Sweet Cicely is a beautiful, easy to care, perennial herbaceous plant with large haired finely separated fern alike leaves and umbels of white flowers. Sweet Cicely has a mild Anise flavor and young sprouts, foliage and seeds supply sweetness when cooked with fruit.
Sweet Cicely needs a few years to achieve its full height of 1.5 [...]
Comfrey is a hardy, perennial herbaceous plant of the family Boraginaceae with a turnip-like root and large, broad hairy leaves. It bears small convex white, cream, purplish or pink blossoms.
It is endemic to Europe, thriving in moist, grassy sites. Comfrey has long been accredited by both organic gardeners and herbalists for its great usefulness [...]
An obscure annual up to 20cm tall, found growing all over the tempered world; chickweed is broadly speaking considered as a weed. It is a low, sprawling plant with small, oval, pointy leaves, white flowers, which seeds and flowers again so quickly that it is accessible about just about throughout the year.
It is full [...]
The fragrance of herbs, flowers and spices can be captured all year round in the form of sachets and pot-pourri. Closets and linen can be kept smelling sweet and fresh. Since herbs and flowers can grow everywhere they can be gathered and dried mixed with essential oils and fixatives to make their scents last.
Pot Pourri
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1 1/2 cups fresh basil leaves
3 table spoons pine nuts
2 gloves garlic
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
3 table spoons grated Parmesan cheese
Extra fresh basil leaves to garnish
Combine basil leaves, pine nuts, Parmesan cheese and garlic in a food processor or mortar and puree.
Start adding the oil while continuing to puree until all of the [...]