Smyrnium Olusatrum

AKA: Alexanders, Black Lovage, Horse Parsley

Planting: Moist rich sandy soil in sun, propagate by seed, fully hardy perennial, 2’-5’.

Harvest: All parts are used fresh, and seeds are collected when ripe and stored whole or ground.

Culinary: Leaves, young leafstalks, shoots, and roots are cooked as vegetables and added to soups and stews. Flower buds can be added to salads, and spicy seeds may be ground as a condiment.

Medicinal: A bitter diuretic herb with celery like flavor, that aids digestion. Once used for asthma, menstrual problems, and wounds.

Third Eye Vision: A prolific grower, a plant often eaten during the growing season.

Date: Seeded Spring 2009 in A5

Links:
Wiki Alexanders

Sources:
The Royal Horticultural Society New Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses (RHS)

Agrimonia Eupatoria

AKA: Agrimony

Planting: Well-drained soil in sun, propagate by seed, fully hardy perennial 12”-24”.

Harvesting: Whole plant is used, plants are cut when flowering then dried for use in infusions, extracts, pills, and tinctures.

Culinary: Fresh or dried flowering plant makes a pleasant herb tea.

Historical: A great wound herb in the Anglo-Saxon (“garclive”) and French 15th C. (eau d’arquebusade) worlds, it helps cuts and wounds and bleeding. Name may come from the Greek arghemon an eye disease (albugo) which it was reputed to cure.

Medicinal: Used to promote clotting due to its high vitamin K content. A bitter, mildly astringent, tonic diuretic herb that controls bleeding, improves liver and gall bladder function, and is an anti-inflammatory. Used internally or externally.

Third Eye Vision: Soft to the blood, slow and smooth.

Date: Seeded Spring 2009 in A5

Links:
Wiki Agrimonia Eupatoria

Sources:
The Royal Horticultural Society New Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses (RHS)