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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

hanging out

every year I mean to dry the echinacea for making tea or a tincture in the winter time


finally got around to it this year
(I will tell you how it turns out)


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12 comments:

  1. Annie CholewaJuly 17, 2013 at 7:29 PM

    Who'd have thought they'd look so beautiful just hanging around upside down!

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  2. ElizabethJuly 17, 2013 at 10:33 PM

    Now that's cool!

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  3. Ms.July 17, 2013 at 11:45 PM

    The root is the most powerful medicinal part, but one wouldn't want to disturb that. All parts are medicinal to an extent. Can't wait to hear how it turns out.

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  4. SueJuly 18, 2013 at 12:58 AM

    I didn't know you could do that:) Mine are not flowering just yet.

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  5. Mary Helen-Art Saves LivesJuly 18, 2013 at 6:34 AM

    i enjoy seeing this view of the cone flowers...cone easier to spell....but I do enjoy the tea. have a wonderful day! Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart

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  6. sukipoetJuly 18, 2013 at 6:53 AM

    not sure abt the flowers, prob good for tea. but it's the roots you want for tinctures. Do you have a good book on making tinctures?

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  7. UnknownJuly 18, 2013 at 7:36 AM

    I've been reading the Mountain Rose Herbfarm blog and how to make tinctures. It's so fascinating! I will be using the roots as well ... The Gardening Husband has said that he's taking out the purple cone flowers but leaving the white ones this year :(

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  8. YvonneJuly 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM

    I took a class a long time ago on how to make tinctures and I just thought all of it was so interesting. The class was given by a Native American man and we used mostly wild native plants. The coneflowers are so pretty!

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  9. sukipoetJuly 18, 2013 at 1:48 PM

    Interesting, when I first got started with herbs/tinctures etc I ordered stuff from Mountain Rose. Have fun with it all.

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  10. ~*~Patty SJuly 19, 2013 at 1:18 PM

    your cone flowers look super strung up like that
    and
    making your own tinctures sounds exciting

    Happy July!
    oxo

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  11. HalleJuly 20, 2013 at 10:50 AM

    They are beautiful hanging there. Looking for to hearing how it turns out for you.

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  12. Little Messy MissyJuly 20, 2013 at 6:01 PM

    I use the root with great success.
    xoxoxox

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