Billy wrote:

yarrow. i know it well...
when you cut it it has a
pretty distinctive smell.

we sneeze and get
rather runny noses
when we deadhead it.
i like to leave it alone
because it overgrows
a lot of other plants
(dandelions, crab
grasses, etc)


....
I just wish I could make mine spread. I killed one by planting
it in
the ground. If you were to grow only one medical plant, this is
the
one that I would choose.

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants....ea+millefolium

we have plenty of yarrow here
(4 kinds, three of which i like,
white, pink and red, the other
is yellow and smells too much
like dog poo to me).

it makes a wonderful lawn if you
keep it mowed -- it spreads and makes
a soft mat to walk on. it also seems
to keep greener through the dryer
and hotter parts of summer when
the regular grass goes dormant.


songbird