Chelidonium majus (from the poppy family Papaveraceae), or greater celandine (Norw: Svaleurt), is an important plant in western phytotherapy and in traditional Chinese medicine and is known here […]
Botanical Garden / Edimentals / Medicinal plants / Talks
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Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden
A year ago I was scheduled to give the Alston lecture at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Before the lecture, my host Cornelia Cho showed me round the botanical […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Medicinal plants / Perennial vegetables
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Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis
A year ago, on 22nd September 2019, Joe Hollis had invited me to do a walk and talk with him at his Mountain Gardens in North Carolina! Before […]
Medicinal plants / Seed
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Joe Hollis’ pharmacy and library
It’s a year since I arrived at Joe Hollis’ Mountain Gardens in North Carolina. I wrote about it here https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=24110 and just added a few additional pictures. Here are […]
Herbs / Medicinal plants / Spice
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Epazote
Epazote (sitronmelde) used to be called Chenopodium ambrosioides, but has been renamed Dysphania ambrosioides… It’s a short-lived perennial which can be overwintered in a cool room, resprouting from […]
Fibre plant / Medicinal plants / Perennial vegetables
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Slender nettle
Urtica gracilis (often classified as a subspecies of stinging nettle, Urtica dioica subsp. gracilis) is a widespread nettle species in North America including Canada and Alaska. It has […]
Herbs / Medicinal plants
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Can Greek Mountain Tea be effective against Alzheimers?
I don’t blog often about medicinal plants, but an interesting research paper from Oslo on the treatment of Alzheimers with herbal medicine has been published, and it’s an […]