Comfrey With a Story

Some people only use the herb comfrey topically as one study showed that it could damage the liver if taken orally. There are people that still drink it and don't believe the studies. I don't drink it cause I don't want to risk my liver health. when I was 14 I had a bicycle accident. I banged up my elbow, pretty bad. So bad I had to have sutures and I had to go to the Emergency room. the wound became infected and it didn't heal right. Could be because I had splashed ditch water in it, not knowing that I was contaminating the wound. I was in shock from the accident so i did not know better. The elbow became infected and my father put a comfrey poultice on it. My father grew comfrey that he made the poultice from. I got the blue plants from

my sister and I obtained the purple ones from the Rochester folk art guild. My elbow healed eventually but it developed a keloid on the scar. The scar was cosmetically, surgically refashioned, and looked terrible afterwards more dented in at the elbow bone. My parents didn't get me braces, but they had my scar remodeled that was weird.

Monstera plant

my good friend and coworker gifted me this wonderful monstera.

Bishop’s Herb Ammi Majus

I recently noticed what looked like a Queen Anne's lace in my yard, in my driveway. But this is May in New York Queen Anne's lace aren't out in May so I was wondering what it was. I actually looked at the leaves and they looked ferny kinda like dill so I tasted some. then when my daughter came over, she told me there is

a poisonous weed that looks like Queen Anne's lace. The poisonous weed looks like Queen Anne's lace has red or purple on its stems so I'm confident that what I tasted was not the poisonous weed. It is a little risky to just taste random weed in the yard so I got a little paranoid. Luckily it was not hemlock. Even a small bite of poisonous hemlock can hurt you really badly. But what we did look up was this Ammi majus herb (weed)which is kind of funny because my name is Amy. It is used in herbal medicine. i'm loving towards plants so it's hard for me to kill even the ones that like to pop up in the wrong places.

Forsythia

today I went to help out at church doing some garden work. I was lucky and found some baby forsythia under a forsythia bush and I took them home with me. It was a win-win situation. I brought my tarp and ended up leaving it there and I got three baby forsythias that I planted in a bunch so I would have a bush next year. I also saved some forget me nots.