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Welcome to the Willow
Oak product catalog. Inside is a wide variety of fresh and
dried plants, handcrafted items and kits, and more! |
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| Heliotrope, fragrant, purple, white |
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A sweet-scented plant which is called Heliotrope because it follows the course of the sun. After opening it gradually turns from the east to the west and during the night turns again to the east to meet the rising sun. The Ancients recognized this characteristic of the plant and applied it to mythology.
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$4.50 (3 inch pots) |
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| Hollyhock, single |
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The Hollyhock, first brought to this country from China, was once eaten as a pot-herb, though it is not particularly palatable.
Its flowers are employed medicinally for their emollient, demulcent and diuretic properties, which make them useful in chest complaints. Their action is similar to Marshmallow.
The flowers are also used for colouring purposes. They are sold freed from the calyx and should be gathered in July and early August, when in full bloom, and dried in trays, in thin layers, in a current of warm air immediately after picking. When dry, they are a deep, purplish-black, about 2 1/2 inches in diameter, united with the stamens, which form a tube, the one-celled, reniform anthers remaining free.
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$3.50 (3 inch pots) |
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| Horehound |
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White Horehound is a perennial herbaceous plant, found all over Europe and indigenous to Britain. Like many other plants of the Labiate tribe, it flourishes in waste places and by roadsides, particularly in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, where it is also cultivated in the corners of cottage gardens for making tea and candy for use in coughs and colds. It is also brewed and made into Horehound Ale, an appetizing and healthful beverage, much drunk in Norfolk and other country districts.
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$3.50 (3 inch pots) |
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| Hydrageas |
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Hardy Shrub
Flowers: Summer-Fall
Description: Unusual double-flowered variety. We offer many varieties of hydrangeas with large rounded clusters of small double-layered flowers in a strong pale-pink, purple, white or blue colour.
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$14.95 |
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| Hyssop |
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Hyssop is cultivated for the use of its flower-tops, which are steeped in water to make an infusion, which is sometimes employed as an expectorant. There are three varieties, known respectively by their blue, red and white flowers, which are in bloom from June to October, and are sometimes employed as edging plants. Grown with catmint, it makes a lovely border, backed with Lavender and Rosemary. As a kitchen herb, it is mostly used for broths and decoctions, occasionally for salad. For medicinal use the flower-tops should be cut in August.
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$3.50 (3 inch pots) |
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