It rained heavily upon three feet deep of snow and after the storm passed a thick ground fog formed and swallowed up the marsh.
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It rained heavily upon three feet deep of snow and after the storm passed a thick ground fog formed and swallowed up the marsh.
The class recording is now available for those who missed the live!
Delve into the poisonous & psychoactive nature of perfume, learn the individual perfume notes and their botanical origins, their effects on the mind and mood, as well as their uses in historical and modern perfumery.
Link below ⤵️
Mandrake illustration from a 17th century Japanese herbal book.
Source: Wellcome Collection
Mandragora officinarum (mandrake) flowers blooming in Antalya, Turkey. It is a spring ephemeral flower in the Mediterannean and the fuzz protects the delicate blooms from frost.
Source: iNaturalist (tylototriton)
Skull and crossbones memento mori painting by Philips Gijsels (1650-1663)
Skull among flowers in a field by Dutch printmaker Arend Hendriks, 1941.
Skull wreathed with flowers by American painter Thomas Satterwhite Noble, 1874.
In honour of my class on the poisonous & psychoactive nature of perfume this weekend here are two ancient Greek terracotta perfume oil flasks, circa 470-450 BCE.
Love the contrast between the simple black one and the elaborate one shaped like Eros, god of love and sex.
Source: The Met Museum
Link: thepoisongarden.com/product/dang...
Dangerous Scents: Poisonous & Psychoactive Plants in Perfumery
Live Online Class
Saturday, Feb 28 @ 2pm EST
Delve into the history of poisonous and psychoactive of perfume, individual notes and their botanical origins, their effects on the mind, and their use in historical and modern perfumery.
New Moon Sale (Feb 21 & 22)
20% off apothecary goods
10% off past online classes, gardening e-books & art downloads
Antique botanical models of poisonous plants: foxglove, wolfsbane, belladonna, and bittersweet nightshade.
Before microscopes, models of enlarged plant parts were once used at universities to teach botany from the 1800s-1900s and are highly prized today for their beauty.
Deadly foxgloves painted by Benjamin Haughton (1865-1924).
My sincerest condolences to the families of Tumbler Ridge, BC. What happened is truly horrifying. I'm so sorry for everything you're going through right now 😞
When you make gardening content but you're Canadian in a place where it snows for 6 months and the air hurts your lungs:
"This is my belladonna, that's my balloon flower, here's my milkweed, and that's my yarrow patch."
There's A LOT of plants that shouldn't be added to smoking mixtures.
Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) can soothe anxiety and stress but should not be smoked because it can slow or stop one's breathing and the risk worsens if combined with sedative herbs or medications. It’s best ingested as a tea or tincture short-term and avoided during pregnancy.
#poisonousplants
The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report released this January by UN researchers.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
A team of astronauts are going to the moon in March. It's kind of a big deal. I really hope the launch goes smoothly. Imagine this happening in our lifetime. It would be so amazing.
The video recording of the medicinal nightshades online class is now available for purchase if you missed the live or are simply fascinated by the nightshade plant family.
thepoisongarden.com/product/clas...
I was shovelling the snow out of my driveway when a little girl in a snowsuit ran by.
Then two little boys walked by and made snowballs from my yard, hid them behind their backs and then yelled "we call truce!" to the little girl.
I yelled "it's a trap!"
She ran away giggling and the boys missed.
Painted a cross section of a henbane seed pod on a tiny 2 inch canvas to distract myself from the news.
Henbane is a poisonous and medicinal member of the nightshade family and one of my faves to grow in my poison garden.
Fuck ice.
Botanical sketch of hyoscyamus reticulatus (red henbane) from "Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum" by W. Griffith, 1854.
Second photo: wild red henbane, native to the Middle East / Western Asia.
Due to the forecasted 3 days of snowmageddon followed by a weekend temp of -30°C, it's likely I won't be able to get any orders mailed via my rural post office until next week. Thank you for your understanding and patience while I've been experiencing the winter from hell.
One thing about me as a herbalist is I'm going to teach you about medicinal nightshade species from Asia that you've never heard of --whether you want me to or not (and no one has ever asked me to, lol).
Did you know China has its own mandrake and belladonna species and a mountain henbane?
