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Peonies & comfrey have re-emerged.

#peony #comfrey #plants #gardening #Zone8 #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Wsanec #PollinatorGarden #perennials #Spring

Peonies & comfrey have re-emerged.

#peony #comfrey #plants #gardening #Zone8 #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Wsanec #PollinatorGarden #perennials #Spring

@SrRochardBunson here's some of mine starting to come up for this spring & summer, within another 2-3 weeks I'll start to see stalks for it's tiny purple flowers. I absolutely love it for how many happy big bumblebees I get with it and my chickens enjoy munching on the leaves I bring them from it too. But do understand if you've very sensitive/delicate skin, as I do, that it does feel a little prickly to the touch, so either enduring a little shortterm pain or wearing gloves will be needed for trimming it back.

Also note that while the bees do indeed love said flowers, they're not very fragrant nor #asthma attack triggering, so if you want an asthmatic friendly #pollinator plant, this is definitely one for that list.

#Comfrey

A strange trend has been spreading quietly but rapidly across Kenyan Facebook groups. It promises healing from almost every illness.

#comfrey #mbariki #castoroil #deworming #PublicHealth #kenya #nairobi #tobacco #alternativemedicine

https://www.fitsavanna.co.ke/health/dangerous-mbaki-mbariki-movement-kenya

Comfrey: Its History, Uses & Benefits
"Paul Alfrey from the Balkan Ecology Project gives the history of comfrey along with its multiple uses (as medicinal, biomass, mulch) and how he has created a comfrey patch to increase fertility in their market garden."
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/comfrey-its-history-uses-benefits/

#PermaCulture #Comfrey #Mulching #BioMass #Gardening #MedicinalPlants #SolarPunkSunday

Comfrey in the stumpery. Sourced from a drift of self-sown comfrey elsewhere in the garden.
The bees love it but they were camera shy. I overheard them talking: “Oh. it’s him again with this thing that goes click. Looks like a giant eye. Very suspicious. Better wait and come back when he’s gone”, they said.

#comfrey #stumpery #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #sustainable #spring #bloomscrolling #biodiversity #natural #NaturalGarden #WeedGardening #weeds #wildflowers #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #PollinatorFriendly #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability #SelfSown

I thought this #bumblebee was dead at first - it wasn't moving for over a minute. It started moving, shortly after I started videoing. It was taking a rest break & did some grooming before flying back to #comfrey #flowers to feed on.

I'm uploading the video now.

#Nature #pollinators #Bees #TiredBumblebee #FuzzyWuzzy #insects #BackyardGuests #Saanich #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #PollinatorGarden

#Artischocken-#Gilde

Dieses Team funktioniert bei mir recht gut:

#Artischocke
Das fransige Zeug in der Mitte,
als große #essbareStaude

#Comfrey/ #Beinwell
Rechts (nördlich) davon, düngt die #Heilpflanze die Pflanzengemeinschaft durch sein verrottendes Laub im Winter, u. profitiert vom teilw. Schatten der Artischocke

#Bohnenkraut, immergrün
Das #Gewürz dient als lebende, ganzjährige Reisig-Bodenbedeckung für die empfindliche Artischocke

#Waldgarten #Garten #Permakultur #FoodForrest #Guild

Pflanzen, ernten, essen oder den Vögeln überlassen - mehr gibt es bei der #Kornelkirsche nicht zu tun.

Als #Unterpflanzung hat sich bei mir #Beinwell bewährt. #Comfrey, Bocking No.14 gilt als samensteril u. bleibt wo man ihn hinpflanzt.

Als Starthilfe empfehle ich ein 20cm tiefes Pflanzloch mit gutem, lockeren Boden.

Wenn er sich etabliert hat, unterdrückt er #Unkraut, bildet jede Menge Blattmasse zum #Mulchen, heilt stumpfe Verletzungen und ist ein Fest für #Hummeln.

#Garten #Waldgarten

Being your own #amateur #herbalist means never having to wonder whether it's safe to put some kind of #salve on your itchy eyelid. When you make it yourself, you know what's in it. In this case, it's olive oil, #beeswax, #comfrey, and #chamomile. #Relief