Absence Makes The Heart…….

… feel reqired to let you know I’m not gone, even if I’m not HERE as much. Some people go through phases of real life and online communities but this is NOT one of those times either, not really.

With some prompting from my best friend, Peter, I have set up a separate blog space for my herbal “stuff” including experiments, identifications, thoughts and finds. You can find it HERE if you are interested, although it is very small now. I hope for it to grow quickly and with the way things are going, I’m sure it will.

Then there is my Graveyard Rabbit one and then I have to sleep and work and, well, I guess life is part of it. LOL

Herbal Identification, The Found And Lost

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been out and about collecting and trying to identify the plants and herbs around me. As I walk through my favorite forest, I see trees with these yellow flowers. It was not until later I realized just how many WITCH HAZEL trees are there. (Hope I can remember which ones they are next time I go back!)

Anyway, along the pond there are Cat tails and also this odd plant which I have now identified. No good uses for it that I can see at this time but who knows:

Bur-Reed, Sparganium americanum

I also found several large patches of the following two herbs which are very useful:

Wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens

Squaw Vine (Partridge berry), Mitchella repens

Lastly, I found a small plant that I have not been able to identify. Anyone with any ideas, PLEASE drop me a line.