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Instructions on how to make rose water toner using fresh rose petals. Use directly on your skin as a natural toner or blend it with oils to create creams and lotions People have used rose water for generations as a natural yet gentle astringent. Probably long before we had commercially produced rose water, the average…
How to grow English lavender with tips on cultivars, growing conditions, and growing lavender in containers There are so many reasons to grow English lavender and if you give it the right conditions, it’s fairly easy too. You can plant it in hedges, on its own in a pot, or scattered throughout the garden as…
Use this list of more than fifty flowers, shrubs, and trees to plan your bee-friendly garden. They’re listed by season in which they bloom, so you can plan to have pollinator-friendly blooms all the year-long It can be a little overwhelming to understand what you should plant to create a bee-friendly garden. In the end,…
An introduction to growing herbs for skincare including plants & flowers to use for different skin types and conditions. Includes herbal skincare recipe ideas. Go to any beauty counter and you’ll find rows of skincare products featuring plant-based extracts. Regenerative creams with pomegranate seed oil, anti-wrinkle serums made with ginseng root, and face masks blended…
Almost 30 herbal remedies for the cold and flu. Includes info on how they are used and tips on adding them to your herbal medicine garden. The common cold and flu are two different illnesses that set most of us back each year. It could be when we’re stressed out and our immune systems weakened,…
Tips on how to grow a cut flower garden from gardener and florist Helena Willcocks. Includes how to layout your garden, amending soil, and flowers to choose for scented and long-lasting bouquets I absolutely love growing flowers, arranging them, and just being on my plot surrounded by them. Everyone needs flowers in their life. That’s…
How to grow calendula officinalis flowers including a guide to sowing, growing, saving seed, ways to use it as a companion plant, and the best cultivars for medicinal use. This piece is a chapter from the ebook, Calendula: A guide to Growing & Using it in Skin Care If you only grow one skin care…