Hawthorn Flower is ready to start collecting about now. Leaves are picked with the flowering heads before they have fully opened & are...

Bugle should be used with some caution but only because it interacts with certain medications, mainly chemotherapy and sedatives. If you...

Medicinal Uses & benefits of Plantain leaf & Ribwort Plantain (Plantago major & Plantago lanceolata)

We all know that fruits are important throughout winter to keep our immune systems strong & to supply us with a variety of vitamins &...

Honeysuckle can be found in our woodlands & hedgerows, it is a commonly used flower in China, known as Jin Yin Hua & is becoming ever...

Elder Flower (Sambucus nigra) has many uses, medicinally & culinary. As a medicine, this anti-catarrhal and anti-inflammatory herb is...

a.k.a. Garlic Mustard, Poor Mans Mustard... This plant can be seen on counrty roadsides to the most built up of areas, often poking up...

This plant is collected as it flowers, all ariel parts are used, fresh or dried. The flowers vary from white to pink & the feathery...

Red clover is a lovely safe herb with so many benefits, especially for us girls! The flowering head with the set of two Trifolium leaves...

a.k.a. Alehoof A very pungent smelling & tasting herb. With leaves a similar shape to a horses hoof, it was once used in beer making...

Having worked with digestive problems for the last 17 years, it is obvious that how we eat has a huge effect upon health. There are...

This is the spindly, sticky, green hedgerow plant can often be seen growing with Nettles. It’s the one the kids throw at you on walks, it...

Another nourishing spring green, packed with iron & a multitude of vitamins & minerals. The young plants steamed, chopped into soups,...

Chronic sore, dry skin often starts on the extremities or head. The more the skin dries out, the more inflamed it will become. The reason...

Rapeseed Oil comes from the black seeds of the rapeseed plant, Brassica napus, the same Brassica family as broccoli, cabbage and...

This little yellow flower you will see dotted along damp verges is highly astringent & a very useful plant for all you hemorrhoid...

Lovely in sandwiches, as homemade pesto, in scrambled eggs, layered in lasagne with spinach, soups... Any dish really! These leaves are...