How to get back into herbs

Well, for starters, being in London with a stinking cold in a house full of herb-books, tinctures and dried herbs. It's great! (too bad i needed a terrible cold for this)

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We're back again! Well actually, we've been around for a few days now but had to get used to the cars, colours, noise after the lovely green spring, colourful flowers, and sounds of little streams and birds we encountered during our hols. Give you a more thorough update soon(ish)!

More things i saw today

Verbascum thapsus, Pulmonaria officinalis, Bellis perennis, Crataegus monogyna, Equisetum arvense, and Hedera helix (of course all in addition to the things i saw earlier)

Help!

My bag is too big?!?!?!? What?!?!? That has never happened. Guess there's a first for everything. Luckily i still need to put in some things (yeah right: a phone, a pen, a hat, and some mueslibars or something the like). Mmmmm....

The things i saw yesterday

On my way from university to Queck's i managed to see the following things: Tussilago farfara (which i was sooooo happy about!), Trifolium spp (you can't see which one since it's not flowering yet), Symphytum spp (same story, plus couldn't use the leaves either since the plants were still very small), Rubus fructicosus, Allium spp, Capsella bursa-pastoris, something resembling a hedge mustard, the first leaves of Heracleum sphondylium, some thistles, Malva spp, Geranium spp (most often it's the G. maculatum). A very happy herb-spotting day!

Only 6 more days...

...and counting. Next Monday we'll start our well-deserved walking holiday, so it'll be very quiet around here for about 3 weeks. Thought i'd let y'all know.

Things i saw today

Today i found some more herbs in addition to the 'weeds' i saw earlier this week... These include Stellaria media, Achilliea millefolium, Ranunculus spp (most propably the repens), Petasites vulgaris (i think), Urtica dioica, Plantago lanceolata, Chelidonium majus, and lots and lots more...

Early morning walk

It's amazing what the first real warm days of the year can do. Leaves appearing on the trees, and lots of 'weeds' sudden showing their greens above the earth's surface. Where i'm living now the variety in weeds found alongside the road is slightly less from what i'm used to, but it makes me very happy nonetheless. Here's a list of just a few abundant weeds i've seen today: Galium (lots and lots), Rumex, Glechoma, Lamium, some weeds from the umbelliferae family, and of course Taraxacum.

Hooray spring is in the air!

Spring clean

The first few warm spring days have finally arrived! *hooray* Interestingly enough for the past 1.5 week i've already been in 'spring clean mode'. Trying to sort out all the junk i've collected and instead of leaving it to lie around, i've actually been giving things a place to live. I think it might be contagious since the BF is now sorting out his paperwork as well (or might that just be my nagging?). I've also started to finish the loose ends that are hanging around. First and foremost getting back in touch with my herbs, but also the website (and at least the new spam filter seems to do it's job), books that have been on the nightstand for ages, places to live, what to do after graduation etc. Everything seems to get itself into some order. 

By the way, I can't wait for the nettles and cleavers to grow slightly bigger and make nice juices for a nice spring clean!