Common Names
Fairy Thimbles, Goblin Gloves (Wales), Witches’ Gloves, Dead Men’s Bells (Scotland), Great Herb (Ireland), Folk’s Gloves, Foxesglew, Fox’s Music (Anglo-Saxon), Fairy Caps, Virgin’s Glove, Our Lady’s Gloves
About This Plant
With common names like “Fairy Thimbles” and “Witches’ Gloves”, one can only imagine the mystical and magical history of the whimsical, fascinating, and ultimately deadly Foxglove plant.
These beautiful plants are biennials, establishing and growing leaves in their first year and sending up large flower spikes their second. They are hardy in USDA zones 4 – 9. In warmer climates, they grow as annuals, completing their life cycle and forming seeds all within a year. In the coastal regions of the Read More
Common Names
Herb Primrose, King’s Cure-All, Wildflower of Europe, Cureall, Fever Plant, Field Primrose, Four-o’clock, Suncups, Sundrops, Night Candle, Night Willow Herb
About This Plant
Evening Primrose is a tall, wildflower-type biennial plant that is hardy in USDA zones 4-10. In its first year, many obtuse leaves are formed which spread into a flat rosette on the ground, and in its second year hairy, flowering stems rise to a height of three to four feet, sometimes more. It flowers for a long time, making it very showy in the garden when planted in mass.
Evening Primrose’s lemon-scented leaves are alternate, rough and hairy, and lanceolate with nearly entire margins. The second-year leaves are Read More
Common Names
Greater Burdock, Gobo, Edible Burdock, Lappa, Beggar’s Buttons, Thorny Burr, Happy Major.
Niu Bang Zi (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Bardana, Love’s Leaves, Cockle Buttons, Thorny Burr, Burr Seed, Clotbur, Cocklebur, Grass Burdock, Stickers, Stick Tight, Burs, Burrseed, Cuckoo Button, Cloth Burr, Fox’s Clote, Hardock, Hareburr, Hurrburr, Turkey Burrseed, Turkey Burr, Personata, Bat Weed, Wooly Dock, Prosopium, Philanthropium
About This Plant
Burdock is an easy to grow plant in the Asteraceae family. Known for its Thistle-like flowers and rough, sticky burred fruits, despite being labeled a “noxious weed” in some states, it is an interesting vegetable and has a long history as a medicinal plant, offering deep, nutritive health to the body, especially Read More
aka Garden Angelica, Archangel, Wild Celery, Norwegian Angelica, Root of the Holy Ghost
About This Plant
Angelica archangelica, with its mystical past and musky, juniper-like scent is a unique member of the Apiaceae, or Carrot, family. It is considered a biennial or short-lived perennial herb, depending on where it’s grown. It is hardy in USDA zones 4-9. In warmer climates, it’s likely to mature within two years. In cooler climates, Angelica makes little advancement toward maturity within the first year and older plants die off after three to four years once they’ve set seed.
Angelica archangelica is considered “European Angelica”. Its American counterpart is A. atropurpurea and its Chinese counterpart, known as Read More