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Rainbow Plant Profiles

We love celebrating and honoring the plants that grow around us. Each of them shares unique characteristics and powers in the place they pop up on earth. Some of the plants we share will be edible, some medicinal, some just beautiful, but all of them deserve to be celebrated. We like to share a video and visit the plant, and chat about several ways we incorporate the plant into our lives.

Kinnikinnick – Bearberry

Kinnikinnick, is the name I was taught when I first met this sprawling evergreen plant. She lives in dry, sometimes gravelly soil …

Burdock – Nature’s Velcro

Burdock is an unassuming medicinal herb with powers in her seeds, leaves and root. Arctium lappa is part of the Compositae family …

Myrtle – in Sardinia

We just returned home from Sardinia and all of her magical myrtle groves. Sardinia was, by far, one of the most dreamy …

yarrow in my yarden coming up rainbows

Yarrow – Nature’s Band-Aid

This is the time of year that plants popping out of the earth feel like nature’s band-aid for a billion reasons. One …

purple columbine and my face

Columbine – the Eagle’s Talon

The official name for garden Columbine is Aquilegia vulgaris. Aquila means eagle. It is suggested, this is due to the spurred petals …

Tansy Profile Coming Up Rainbows

Tansy the Bitter Button

Tanacetum vulgare (Tansy) is our rainbow plant profile for the month of October. It seems fortunate, that Tansy can still be found …

Lemon Balm Flower

Lemon Balm (Melissa)

In honor of my sister Melissa coming for a visit, and the full moon on Saturday we’re spending some time with Lemon …

Apple a Day

Tis the season for a focus on the gift of the Apple tree (Pyrus malus). An Apple a Day really can keep …

Borage the Starflower

Borage (Borago officinalis) is an annual herb found in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. Although borage grows in gardens in most of …