How to Use a Hoe in Your Garden

Basically hoeing is a useful way to chop and cut the tops off seedling weeds; loosen compacted soil; and create a dust mulch to conserve moisture. Several types of hoe…

How to Use Agrimony

Found in summer hedgerows, fields and waste ground, agrimony is easily recognized by its delicate long spike of yellow flowers smelling of apricots, and its beautifully shaped leaves. Its country…

How to Use Aloe Vera

This succulent perennial of the lily family is indige­nous to East and southern Africa, but grows happily in other tropical places. In temperate climates it grows as a houseplant. There…

How to Use Angelica

Angelica is a large Umbellifer, growing up to 8—10 feet (3 metres). The whole plant is aromatic, with a pungent, sweet smell and taste. It is not to be con­fused…

How to Use Aspen

Aspen or white poplar is an attractive tree with catkins in the spring followed by silver-lined leaves that rustle and quake even when the air seems still. Its continuously trembling…

How to Use Beth Root

This attractive member of the lily family is a hardy perennial fount! in rich, moist woodland in central and western states of America, where it is now endangered, and temperate…

How to Use Black Cohosh

Black Cohosh is a beautiful plant growing 4—8 feet (1-2 metres) high with small white feathery flowers in graceful slender spikes. It is a hardy perennial, native to the shady…

How to Use California Poppy

The poppy symbolizes the ephemeral pleasures of life — here one minute, gone the next. The California poppy with its vibrant yellow-orange flower is the state flower of California, and…