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		<title>Eastern Purple Coneflower or Echinacea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Echinacea purpurea Appearance This perennial blooming plant is 1.2 m (3&#8217;6&#8243;) tall and .5 m (18&#8243;) broad at maturation. Identifiable through its purple cone-shaped flowers, it is indigenous to eastern North America and is known as the &#8216;purple coneflower&#8217;. Depending on climate, it starts to bloom in late May to early July. Its flowers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herbal Poultices Used In Country Remedies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note that these herbal poultices date from the 19th century &#8211; some were written down for perpetuity by my grandmother late in the 19th century when still widely used in many British colonies and the United States. Colds and Cough, Hops or Catnip Poultice for. Hops or catnip put inside small bags and steamed until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://herbgardenblog.com/herbal-poultices-used-in-country-remedies/</link>
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		<title>Basic Harvesting, Processing and Preparation Of Medicinal Herbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drying and Preserving Roots, Herbs, Barks. General &#8211; collect herbs when the weather is good and when there is no dew on them. Dry them in the shade, after which they ought to be protected from exposure to the air by wrapping up inside paper or perhaps keeping in paper pouches, tied up and hung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power Of Chinese Herbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until the early 20th century, the Chinese people, along with their traditions, were virtually unknown to the vast majority of the Western world. This ancient and scholarly culture has used herbs to cure human ailments and imbalances for millennia. In accordance with Chinese medicine, our body, mind and soul are inter- connected. If one organ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wormwood &#8211; The Herb Garden Enigma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artemisia absinthium (Compositae) Herb Garden Plant Appearance The light green deeply slashed leaves (which are silvery when young) provide a highly attractive feature in the herb garden. lt is a touch woody and appears to glimmer during the rain. Circular shrubs achieve 90-120 cms (3-4 ft) in height and produce tiny greenish-yellow flowers in summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Red Rose Of The Apothecary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rosa gallica officinalis (Rosaceae) Appearance Rosa gallica officinalis is the apothecary’s rose, identified somewhat ambiguously in England as the damask rose because it was introduced to Europe by the crusaders from Damascus. Within America it&#8217;s known as the French rose, or rose of Provins The plant is a bush generally 60 to 120 cms (2-4 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://herbgardenblog.com/sweet-red-rose-of-the-apothecary/</link>
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		<title>Lavender Herbs for Potpourri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lavandula species (Labiatae) Appearance Little greyish abundant leaves (evergreen in European herb gardens) form a rounded bush 90-180 cms (3-6 ft) high &#8211; and sometimes more in spread &#8211; which is populated with rigid stems of lilac-blue blossoms . The complete plant is not unlike a large pincushion. In America lavender isn&#8217;t regarded as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://herbgardenblog.com/lavender-herbs-for-potpourri/</link>
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		<title>Showy Iris &#8211; Herbs For Sore Eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iris pseudacorus (Iridaceae) Herb Garden Plants &#8211; Iris. Appearance Iris is really a category of some two hundred and fifty-odd species of flowering plants with flamboyant blooms. Although Iris may not be generally seen as a &#8216;herb garden plant&#8216; it nevertheless fits both the definition and spirit of beneficial herbs. It borrows its label from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://herbgardenblog.com/showy-iris-herbs-for-sore-eyes/</link>
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		<title>Calamintha, Bees and Butterflies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calamintha nepetoides (Labiatae) Appearance A small, upright, bushy little herb garden plant 30 to 60 cms (1-2 ft) tall, calamintha produces a haze of tiny bluish flowers with long purple bracts from June through to September. Flowers are studded on short spikes between the leaves in mid-summer. This may slowly spread to make a compact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://herbgardenblog.com/calamintha-bees-and-butterflies/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Bergamot Brings Bees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monarda didyma (Labiatae) Appearance The flower stalks of this aromatic herb garden plant grow to around 50 to 90 cms (1.5 to 3 ft) and flower for many months from the middle of summer . The whole flower is usually impregnated with an enchanting fragrance even when the top growth has died all the way [...]]]></description>
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