by HollyBeth Anderson | May 4, 2013 | beauty, essential oils, flower, flowers, Garden, gardening, hollybeth website, natural, organic, organic skincare, organics bodycare, skincare
It takes 8,000,000 handpicked jasmine flowers to produce 2 pounds of oil. There are over 200 species of jasmine and I have been seduced by this intoxicating aroma around the globe from Europe, Africa, India, Bali, Thailand, Latin America etc. …. and at home....
by HollyBeth Anderson | May 1, 2013 | Garden, gardening
My backyard is a bevy of flying architects, nuthatch, cardinals, brown thrashers, titmouse, and Carolina wrens are building in every birdhouse, gardenia bush, and holly. The thrashers outside my bedroom winter that hatched last week are already gone. Peonies, roses,...
by HollyBeth Anderson | Apr 28, 2013 | flower, Garden, gardening
My Dianthus are blooming emitting their spicy, clove aroma. A member of the carnation family, they look like paper cut with pinking shears. The name is derived from the Greek work for God dios anthos meaning flower. With over 300 species they are native to North...
by HollyBeth Anderson | Apr 24, 2013 | Garden, gardening
Did you know that blackberries are actually a fruit and not a berry and are in the rose family? Along with its medicinal remedies to relief gout it was also used around houses to keep thieves out. Here is a photo of mine that are blooming, blackberry cobblers soon!...
by HollyBeth Anderson | Apr 24, 2013 | flowers, Garden, gardening
The first clematis bloom in my yard! They are such beautiful flowers but the entire plant is toxic. The name is derived from the Greek meaning vine. There are over 270 species and they can live over 25 years.
