This is a bee and butterfly magnet in my eastern Massachusetts garden, and gets constant traffic from a little native bee. It also grew i...Read Moren a previous garden; based on the comparison it much prefers abundant (6-8 hours) sun and good drainage. The foliage is handsome and the flower color mixes nicely with catmints and lavenders.
Discovery of this plant is a gift of life. More than 40 healing properties, used like a 'Panacea' in middle age.
If you li...Read Moreke tea, you can add 1 teaspoon of Betony crushed dry leaves + 1 teaspoon of your favorite indian tea.
Like this, you can avoid health problems with ease.
It have a calming effect for me.
I never try with coffee, but why not?
Taste of Betony dry leaves is slightly bitter, with a strange flavor of dry soup powder! but it's ok... very drinkable ;-)
Seeds can be collected also before the seed pods become brown, i just collected brown ready seeds starting to fall today, the plant still green, this 19 August. I will do the same when the 'branches' become brown, later...Sorry my english (i speak french)
Great plant, underused. Cut the whole plant back after flowering and shortly thereafter fresh foliage will emerge and persist, nearly ev...Read Moreergreen, through the winter. Occasionally lost to crown rot but divides easily and self seeds very gently. Lavender, white, and an in-between shade of very light pink have emerged in my garden.
Origine from European mountains: Alps, Apennines, Pyrenees grassland. Pink flowering during late summer.
Prefers moist, rich, dr...Read Moreained soil and a sunny spot in the garden.
Almost leafless stems of Betony arise from a basal tuft of long-stalked leaves, and each bears a fairly compact, cylindrical head of redd...Read Moreish-purple flowers at the tip. To Betony was attributed many properties, both medicinal and magical, and it was used in herbal teas and herbal tabacco.
This is a bee and butterfly magnet in my eastern Massachusetts garden, and gets constant traffic from a little native bee. It also grew i...Read More
Discovery of this plant is a gift of life. More than 40 healing properties, used like a 'Panacea' in middle age.
If you li...Read More
Great plant, underused. Cut the whole plant back after flowering and shortly thereafter fresh foliage will emerge and persist, nearly ev...Read More
Origine from European mountains: Alps, Apennines, Pyrenees grassland. Pink flowering during late summer.
Prefers moist, rich, dr...Read More
Almost leafless stems of Betony arise from a basal tuft of long-stalked leaves, and each bears a fairly compact, cylindrical head of redd...Read More
A mat forming perennial from Southern Europe.
Has ovate-oblong, pointed, toothed, softly hairy leaves on upright, sqaure s...Read More