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Thanks for sharing that interesting fact about wintergreen! Oh, don't you love plants and talking about plants!? Here is a little...

I wrote a paragraph about methyl salicylate from Wintergreen oil use as an effective topical pain relief. "Wintergreen essential oil is...

Merry Christmas Eve! it's raining right now so I'm cuddled up by our fire. Have a beautiful day! I get to have a Christmas party with...

Ginger, ewe with hurt leg, had twins yesterday morning. Both white, a ram and a ewe. 87.5% eligible for registration at 1year old after...

wintergreen grew wild in a field behind our house along with the small bush wild blueberries and other berries too like wild raspberries.

Yes! It is outdoors all year and we took it sailing all summer! It has been a favorite plant of mine due to its hundreds of blooms and...

Gerbera. Right? It is an African perennial. I have grown Gazania :). (Not the one you have there, I'm thinking.) In the rose...

Wow, that's cool. People used to forage a lot more in those days. My great grandmother used to take my mom mushroom hunting. She knew...

As a child, 70 years ago i can remember my Grandfather picking some for us on a camping/fishing trip with me and my mother, in West...

My newest potted plant! Wintergreen! I heard the berries are edible! I love how Christmassy it looks!

Today I transplanted my African daisy to this nice roomy mini wine barrel. I dug it out of a much smaller ceramic pot that it has been...

Are you going to make pumpkin pie?

I decided to pick the pumpkin today and it weighs about 21 pounds

The first artificial Christmas tree was made from dyed goose feathers in Germany in the early 1800s! - (per Good Housekeeping)

i don't mind birdies visiting the gardens and eating bugs but it sure would be nice if they could purge themselves of poison ivy seeds...