Comments on: Flora

By: w1kkp

w1kkp — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:06:59 +0000

Oh, now I see that you are absolutely right about my “reeds”!! This is fun, I’m going to learn from you the names of things!!

By: flandrumhill

flandrumhill — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:25:55 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion Connie. It would probably grow here. I will try to find one to either transplant or start from seed.

By: Connie Attwood

Connie Attwood — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:58:08 +0000

Dear Amy Lynn,
The plant St. John’s Wort (known in homeopathic world as Hypericum Perforatum)grows in neglected soil in both Halifax area and Cape Breton and when picked with flowers (whole plant but root)and steeped in strong drinking alcohol placed on a sunny windowsill until it turns a deep yellow is the most wonderful antiseptic! Better than anything you can buy in the stores. A wonderful book describing the medicinal uses for plants is written by Dorothy Shepherd “A Physician’s Posy” a first world war doctor who often had nothing but plant extracts to treat her patients. C