The circle of elms in Edinburgh Gardens
There’s a circle of thirteen elms in Fitzroy’s Edinburgh Gardens, my favourite…
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Medicinal plants & my convict granny
Ann Doyle was a young convict who came to Australia on the…
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Food, herbs and Hippocrates
Hippocrates is credited with the phrase ‘let food be thy medicine and…
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Helen of Troy: also a herbalist?
Helen of Troy's beauty is the stuff of legend, but her association…
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What’s in a name? Mary’s herbs as domestic medicine
I don't think that the names of plants are completely random. While…
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