Fleurs

This beautiful medicinal plant is not only good for human health but also for the incredibly micro-biological health of the soil.  It attracts pollinators, and easily reseeds itself every year.  We love using it teas (mixed with sage) or to help clean out infected cuts (soaking your finger or cut in a cooled down calendula tea).

The bluest of blue flowers in nature, these bachelor buttons are a must in any garden.  I originally knew nothing about them but when I started seed saving my grandmother, Donna Macleod asked me if I had her favorite flowers, bachelor buttons.  I can see why she loves them.  Easy to grow, love the challenge of tough soils these flowers are great as border or fill in plants for any garden.  The origins of the plant are hard to pin down but there are traces of bachelor buttons in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.

We find the Echinacea flower so beautiful and this is why we grow it.  It attracts butterflies with their big and beautiful flower and they are perennial!  Easy peasy.  The flowers, leaves and roots are medicinal but you have to wait a couple of years before harvesting the roots.  This plant is a local heirloom variety.

A great pollinator and worth having around, the echinacea will always come back!

This beautiful dried flower keeps its colour for a very long time after it has been harvested.  It is originally a perennial from Australia that acts as an annual here in Quebec.  Really a pleasure to have in our garden and on our table, full of color.