Newsletters
Listed below are this years newsletters. Here you will find topical information and content.
Current Newsletters
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January - Rosemary
Native to the Mediterranean region, cultivated widely elsewhere. This herb is an evergreen shrub, with lovely aromatic linear leaves which are opposite and leathery. Coloured a dark shade of green above and white below..... -
December
- Motherwart
It was historically used by midwives as uterine tonic and to prevent uterine infections Motherwort originally came from central Asia. It has historical use in central Europe as well as North America...... -
November - Cayenne
The potent, hot fruit of cayenne has been used as medicine for centuries. It was considered helpful for various conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, including stomach aches, cramping pains, and gas. Cayenne was frequently used to treat diseases of the circulatory system ..... -
October -
Ginko
Ginkgo is the oldest living tree species in the world, having survived unchanged in China for over three hundred million years. Charles Darwin called the gingko tree a living fossil...... -
September
- Sarsaparilla
A perennial vine Sarsaparilla is a brambled, woody vine that grows up to 50 m long, with paired tendrils for climbing (often high into the rainforest canopy)..... -
August -
Rosehips
Rosehips of some species, especially Rosa canina (Dog Rose) and Rosa majalis, have been used as a source of vitamin C and carotenoids to treat vitamin C and A deficiencies and scurvy..... -
July -
Witch Hazel
They are deciduous shrubs or (rarely) small trees growing to 3–8 m tall, rarely to 12 m tall. The leaves are alternately arranged, oval, 4–16 cm long and 3–11 cm broad, with a smooth or wavy margin... -
June -
Fumitory
The herb is annual small and slender, with weak, straggling, or climbing stems, decompound leaves, and clusters or spikes of small flowers of a pinkish hue, topped with purple, or more rarely, white.... -
May -
Eucalyptus
The leaves are leathery in texture, hang obliquely or vertically, and are studded with glands containing a fragrant volatile oil. The flowers in bud are covered with a cup-like membrane.... -
April -
Epilobium
Epilobium will grow to 20-80cm tall. It has an erect stem which is stiffly hairy. The lower leaves are in a small rosette, with leaves opposite, oblong, lanceolate, slightly toothed, sessile and longer than broad.... -
March
- Wild Lettuce
Wild lettuce is a hollow stemmed biennial which grows to 1.2m. It has broad spiny leaves and clusters of pale yellow flowers. All parts of the plant exude a white milky latex..... -
February
- Herb Robert
It can grow at altitudes of up to 1,500 metres (4,921 ft). It grows as an annual or biennal producing small, pink, five-petalled flowers (about 1 cm in diameter) from April until the autumn..... -
January - Thuja
A The tallest of this species of Conifer rarely grows above 30 feet high. These trees have regular, graceful conical forms that make them valuable as high hedge trees, and they also take easily any other shape towhich they may be clipped.....