Peppermint
Peppermint, Mentha piperata. Peppermint doesn’t really get the respect it deserves, in my estimation. It’s commonly found in most herb collections and many people eschew it due to its […]
Read More →Peppermint, Mentha piperata. Peppermint doesn’t really get the respect it deserves, in my estimation. It’s commonly found in most herb collections and many people eschew it due to its […]
Read More →Herbalist Ann McCormick of Fort Worth just published her December newsletter called The Twelve Herbs of Christmas. It’s a concise discussion of 12 herbs associated with the nativity […]
Read More →Featured Post for November 2015 As many of you know, if you’ve been following The Herb Cottage for a while, I like books! I especially like books […]
Read More →When we think of herbs, we tend to think of shrubby, herbaceous plants growing in an herb garden or container. In fact, one of the accepted definitions of […]
Read More →Did you know Red Bud Tree flowers are edible… or Carnations… or the flowers on your Bean Vines? Dressing up green salads with edible flowers is popular […]
Read More →September 2015 Gardening magazines and blogs this time of year, the Fall, are telling us how to put the garden to bed, preserve our harvest and settle in […]
Read More →Filoli is an estate in the San Francisco Bay Area near Woodside, which is near San Carlos, where, as it happens, I grew up. (Not at Filoli, but in […]
Read More →This post was originally published as the July 2004 Newsletter. Happy Independence Day, everyone. It’s the morning of July 4th as I write this. I’ve been listening to the audio […]
Read More →July 2015 Monthly Feature We celebrated July 4th this month and that celebration of our nation caused me to think about what herbs are truly native to the United […]
Read More →Originally Published December 2004 Cold weather and gloomy skies have come to my part of Texas. We’re experiencing the most rainfall in a year than we’ve had in some […]
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