HERB - confused

[Gaylin Walli]

beatrix sez:
>I recieved a e-mail from the list adminstrator [....] telling me to
>change the subject line when I change topics. Was this not enough
>change or is my subject line not showing up proper?

The list admin was gently chastizing the guilty indirectly. You are
not one of the guilty. I am. I should have known better, but got
lazy. I apologize for requiring the ListAdmin reminder. Mea culpa.

>I have recently bought a bee balm plant and a lamb's ear/wooly betony
>plant on a impluse: so, what are these two plants' uses, anyways?

If by bee balm you mean lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) then are
you in for a treat. TONS of uses for this plant. But be aware that
it has the same tendency and tenacity that mint does in taking over
your garden. Detroit gardens are already growing past their first
harvest of this plant.

As for lamb's ear, that should be Stachys byzantina if I remember
correctly (someone correct me please? byzantia or macrantha? I don't
have a book in front of me and my web connex is down). The only
thing I remember off the top of my head about this plant is that
soldiers used the leaves as substitute compress bandages when they
could find nothing else.

Jasmine de Cordoba, Midrealm
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"Si enim alicui placet mea devotio, gaudebo; si autem
nulli placet, memet ipsam tamen juvat quod feci."
-- Hroswith of Gandersheim
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