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surprised mama with some bulbine frutescens for her herb garden 🌱

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via salix_moon_apothecary on instagram + her Etsy

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It’s a “harvest your dried lemon verbena and jar it” kind of day 🍋

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drying some mānuka that came down during the weekend storms

The wood was often used for tool handles. Mānuka sawdust imparts a delicious flavour when used for smoking meats and fish. It is cultivated in New Zealand for mānuka honey, produced when honeybees gather the nectar from its flowers, and for the pharmaceutical industry. It is also used for carving. An essential oil, for which many medicinal claims are made, is produced by steam distillation of its leaves.

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Made a lemon verbena cake 🍋🍰

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harvested lemon verbena to make teas ✨ drying some to make a cake next!

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