Last weekend I attended the Michigan Herb Conference, this "Bee" display greeted you when you came in and lets you know "Springs on the way".
I don't know if this is good, it would take a lot of seeds to using as stuffing. How would the plants reproduce without them and then what would the monarch butterflies live on???
The "Herb of the year is Savory". They used the plants for center pieces on the banquet tables.
There are two types of savory, winter and summer. This is the summer variety, it is the most popular.
One of our speakers talked about gardening and crafting ideas. This is a good one. She purchased two containers from the dollar store, a plastic basket that will fit inside a plastic pot.
Take them out to harvest your vegetables in the garden, then you can rinse them off outside and just bring in the basket.
Our speaker does a lot of crafts and every year comes to the conference with wonderful "flower" purses and accessories. This was one of her apron ideas.
To make a no sew garden apron, cut up a pair of jeans only leaving the waist band and back pockets with a little leg fabric left. To use, button the waist band in back and the pockets go in front for garden tools, seeds etc.
Besides savory I bought a new variety of scented geranium called Sweet Mimosa. The flowers are suppose to be bright red and suitable to pick for a bouquet. We'll see this summer.
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Oh, I would've loved to have attended this! Looks like a really great herb association you belong to. My herb group is creating an herbal exhibit for a local library in one of those big glass display cases -- 4' x 6', very intimidating -- we're including a bit on the milkweed/monarch plight as well, handing out milkweed seeds, etc. at our "reception" even though we're not in the monarchs' direct flight pattern, we do get strays. Really love seeing YOUR herb posts, too! xoxo
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