Apr 15, 2025
Echium sabulicola (syn. Echium confusum, Echium maritimum)
15-APR-2025
Melbourne, Vic
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Echium sabulicola (syn. Echium confusum, Echium maritimum)
15-APR-2025
Melbourne, Vic
「Green Alkanet」 Forget-Me-Not I, Nature (Set 3) V @ East/Andrews Park―Southampton, Hampshire, UK. Canon EOS 1200D. April 2015.
「Great Forget-Me-Not」 Forget-Me-Not II, Nature (Set 3) XVII @ The Rock Garden in East/Andrews Park―Southampton, Hampshire, UK. Canon EOS 1200D. April 2015.
8/15/21
Witch Crafts: Make Your Own Healing Salve
Comfrey is beloved by kitchen witches and is one of the best-known healing herbs of all times. It has even been referred to as “a one-herb pharmacy” for the inherent curative powers. Well-known and widely used by early Greeks and Romans, the very name, symphytum, from the Greek symphyo means to "make grow together," referring to its traditional use of healing fractures. Comfrey relieves pain and inflammation. Comfrey salve will be a mainstay of your home first aid kit. Use it on cuts, scrapes, rashes, sunburn, and almost any skin irritation. Comfrey salve can also bring comfort to aching arthritic joints, and sore muscles.
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I believe these flowers are green alkanets (Pentaglottis sempervirens), which are in the forget-me-not family (Boraginaceae). I thought they were forget-me-nots at first, but forget-me-nots are yellow, not white, in the middle. I don’t know why they’re called “green”; their flowers aren’t green, and I suppose their leaves and stems are green, but you could say the same about any other plant...