UsersIvy West
Cottage Garden Plants
Plants used in informal, whimsical ways, including old-fashioned flowers, edibles, and herbs. Wild plants, native and invasive welcome. Feel free to include weeds and how to recognize and deal with them as well. Everyone welcome!
Medicinal plants, Herbs, foraging for wild edibles, practice in the field
Daily practice in the field, botany college/grade 11 (and up) identification of medicinal plants, herbs, increase foraging skills for wild edibles, differentiating similar looking plants, foraging in the different seasons. Craft of plants for culinary uses: oils,sugars, salts, jams,jellies, pickles, preserves.Bushcraft, Wildcraft, homesteading, to home gardening.
Botanical Gardens
For observations at botanical gardens and such which may have plants not native to the region, often having plants formally labeled.
Forest plants 🌱
This group lists all the plants in the world that grow in forests and not in the meadows, the edge, the parks : the photos must be taken IN the forest. Feel free to share your discoveries in this group to learn how to recognise the plants you find in forests.
Perennial Lovers 🔃💚🔁
A collections of plants known to be perennials (plants that come back year after year) 🌷🌹🌵🌿🍁 Please join and share known perennials. All are welcome 😃
My Small Hedgerow Notebook 💞🌱🌿💕(for Silver Oliver Montague and PrettyBoy)( whomIloveandmiss💞❤️😼🐾💕)
These are my initial forays into daily practice (observances in the field) Plant identification, foraging wild edibles, herbs, medicinal plants, growing from green jungle chaos to a functioning herbalist. Prepper work and a camp nurse badge' 🤠🌱☘️🤗! (Other novice herbalists and baby botanists are welcome to hike this trail too!) Welcome to my Small Hedgerow Notebook, in memory of Silver Oliver Montague and Pretty Boy, whom I have not seen since the Jan 17 2022 blizzard.
Healing Weeds & Herbs 🌿
Any plantlife that could be used/consumed in a medicinal, herbal, or otherwise beneficial way. 🌿
Herbs'n stuff
Herbs of medicinal, topical, edible, and curative properties
🍄🍀Garden of healing🌺🌱🍍
Holistic herbs and anything you may find beautiful and therapeutic. Fruit trees, berries, anything that has healing properties.. feel free to join and learn as you help us gather a new type of medicine, a holistic approach to healing illnesses physically and mentally.
Wild Medicinal & Edible Plants, & Plants to Avoid
Plants found in sparsely wooded areas. Such as campgrounds, near rural neighborhoods, along hiking or walking paths.
Herbs
Herbs are a widely-distributed and widespread group of plants - importantly, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients - possessing savoury or aromatic properties that are used for flavouring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for preservatives and fragrances. NB: Culinary use typically distinguishes herbs from spices. Herbs generally refers to the leafy green or flowering parts of plants (either fresh, dried or otherwise preserved), while spices are usually dried and produced from other parts of the plant, including seeds, bark, roots and fruits (spices will form a complementary group of similar ambition in coverage). This group aims to provide a comprehensive, richly-illustrated and highly informative compendium of known and recognised herbs world-wide, combining both ancient loric and modern scientific insights into herbal use, as well as capture the deep cultural significance of these much-loved, sometimes feared group of plants.