Healerwitch's Garden

The last time we were at the Lavender Fields this bush had its fruit on...I have never seen anything like it, th...

The milkweeds (Asclepias)were named for Aesculapius, who is said to have learned his knowledge of healing from a...

The family contains about 112 genera and more than 725 species of trees, shrubs, and, most commonly, vines, chie...

Butterfly Weed or Pleurisy Root is a smaller member of the Milkweed family. It is said that the plant hates its ...

This family includes approx. 2000 species of plants distributed in places of desert or very dry climate, mainly ...

These plant can be weedy or invasive, easily escaping cultivation. It can become a real problem in crop fields.
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The species name means “beautiful for a day,” and it is so true. Each flower only lasts a day, it then withers a...

This shrub was first used in the United States in landscaping in 1688, being used as a novelty item. For some re...

The Holly tree, a tree of myth, a tree sacred to the Witches of old, and still held in great esteem. The ancient...

About 1/3 of our acre is left natural. In the woods at the base of a rotted tree stump I found these plants. As ...

Joe Pye is a plant native to Eastern North America. It was given that name for a Native American man who treated...

This is one of the plants that an Elderly neighbor gifted me with this summer. Her husband had dug out tons of i...

The economic significance of Magnolias is generally confined to the use of wood from certain timber species and ...

These are some really beautiful flowers. The flowers and leaves of many species are edible or used for medicine.

This is a biennial plant. The first year the plant is a rosette of leaves that hug the ground. The second year i...

Also called the Spotted Jewelweed

The Jewelweed plant has been used for centuries in North America by Native ...

I was told as a child that these orchids were endangered.....while driving to the store I passed a wooded area, ...

The Pokeweed was long used by the Native Americans. They introduced the colonists to it’s use as a vegetable, a ...

Sassafras is well noted for its leaves…there are three different shapes. Some leaves with three lobes and others...

The family contains 38 genera and about 600 species. All members of the family are herbaceous, and are easily re...

Yarrow has a long history of use. In Rome it was known as a treatment for wounds; and the Native American Indian...