It’s been a little while since I have shared a post here as the summer has been a busy one.
I am really excited to be running a wild plant craft workshop over the Autumn Equinox weekend with Anna Richardson who is an amazingly knowledgeable wild food and bushcraft teacher and beautiful plantswoman! We will be doing a foraging walk on the Saturday morning for those who wish to come but not commit to the full weekend.
It’s been a wonderfully sunny summer with abundant herbs and wildflowers in the garden, waysides and hedgerows and I wanted to share some photos with you before autumn takes too firm a grip.
We recently moved house and there is plenty of self heal, a particular favourite of mine, in the lawn of our new garden. A herb with many uses, both internal and external Culpepper described it thus, ‘whereby when you are hurt, you may heal yourself.’
Calendula is another firm favourite that is wonderful medicine both internally and externally, you can read more about it here.
Yet another herb for inside and out is the beautiful heartsease, just looking at it does what it says on the box!
Mullein is an excellent tonic for the respiratory system among many other useful properties, too many to list here. It surely deserves a post of its own sometime soon.
Californian poppy is famed for its soothing properties and makes a lovely children’s herb also.
Bees and humans both enjoy red clover.
I love to see great swathes of meadowsweet growing in wild and abandoned places. I have written about some of its medicinal virtues here.
Queen of the Prairie is Meadowsweet’s American cousin and makes a beautiful garden addition.
Soldier beetle on Tansy.
Lovely Evening Primrose.
Madame Mugwort, a fabulous aromatic and bitter herb which grows plentifully throughout most of the UK.
Yarrow, the many benefits of which are touched on here.
Agrimony is not only a useful herb but also one of the most beautiful wildflowers.
St John’s Wort, much loved by most herbalists and another very useful plant for both internal and external ailments.
Black Horehound, Ballota nigra, is most often noted for its smell which many find disagreeable. I think it smells like the smokey bacon flavour crisps I remember from childhood! It is useful for quelling nausea and sickness, though if the smell and taste repulse you, it might not have the desired effect!
Nettle seeds, wonderful medicine and walker’s snack.
An abundance of wild flowers.
And finally the beautiful passion flower. A plant that always seems quite out of this world to me.
Oh, your blog is such a great resource and inspiration! Your hearts are certainly in a healthy, healing place. Thank you!
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Thank you Susan. ❤
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that was an absolute delight, thank you.
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Thank you for taking the time to comment. It’s lovely to hear when people enjoy a post.
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a most beautiful post,thank you
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Thank you! 🙂
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Beautiful, its our 2nd day of spring here in New Zealand something to look forward too
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Lovely,spring is such an exciting time of year with so much abundance to come!
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Good Morning Lucinda,
Wonderful to see you blogging again.
This post is close to my heart……..indeed I have most of those wildflowers in the garden. Not only do they look beautiful, they also help our native wildlife.
Your new garden must be amazing…………may you have many happy years ahead.
Good luck with the workshop…………how exciting.
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Hi Cheryl,
It has been a while since I have visited your (or anyone’s!) blog but I am off to have a look now as little one is asleep. 🙂
Unfortunately only a few of these are in my garden, the self heal, calendula, heartsease and passionflower. The rest are on local walks, in my parent’s garden and by a canal near their house. One day my garden will be that spectacular though! 🙂
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Lucinda,
Your photos are stunning, especially the wild flower meadows. What a lovely way to start my day, coming across your post.
Thankyou
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Thanks so much for your kind comment Caroline.
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Lucinda, I have missed you and your wonderful inspirational words. Many thanks for today’s post and for the photographs, beautiful as always. I wish you and your family lots of happiness in your new house and much enjoyment and peace in your new garden.
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Thank you so much. I hope to make time to write a bit more frequently now. Sending love.
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Hi Lucinda
When I went to look for the dates of the wildcrafting weekend I could only find this one: Wild plant craft weekend with Anna Richardson & Lucinda Warner Saturday 12th 10.30am until Sunday 13th April 4pm which is dated April is there another one still to be announced? I would be very interested in at least attending the foraging walk. Is there an option to attend a full day rather than the weekend? I can’t believe all this is going on just a short drive from me and I had no idea yay!
Best wishes Elaine From: Whispering Earth Reply-To: Whispering Earth Date: Monday, 1 September 2014 23:25 To: Elaine Mariani Subject: [New post] Wildflowers and Waterways
WordPress.com Lucinda posted: ” It’s been a little while since I have shared a post here as the summer has been a busy one. I am really excited to be running a wild plant craft workshop over the Autumn Equinox weekend with Anna Richardson who is an amazingly knowledgeable wild food”
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Hello – yes sorry about our website error – the dates are Sat 20th & Sun 21st September. If you wanted to book you still can via that web link, just click on 20th Sept in the calendar then view rates. If you want to discuss other options like attending one day or the walk only then please email: workshops@wowo.co.uk
Warm wishes
Alice (event organiser!)
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Thanks Elaine and Alice. Sorry about the confusion on the website. If you let me know your email I can let you know about future events also.
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Just lovely 🙂
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❤
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What a great post, both informative and beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you!
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Loved your photos! I live in the Ozarks (US) and also enjoy exploring the plants that surround us here. We have a lot of the same ones.
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How lovely, I’m glad this can be useful to people who live so far away. 🙂
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Beautiful photographs! Thank you!
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Thanks Lisa!
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Absolutely breathtaking. You make me yearn for the Downs and for your company too!
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Ah, I wish you could pop over for tea and walks. And I could pop over to you too! ❤ xx
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Stunning photos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion for herbs and herb lore.
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Beautiful photos – so clear! I also find passion flower exotic looking if a little strange. Calendula is one of my favs, but there are sooooo many others!
Lovely post.
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