Flowering, Culinary & Medicinal Plants
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Making Coconut Oil
Around a month ago I decided to make some coconut oil from scratch. This is a video I made to document this little project. It’s more of a record of the memories I have of making the oil rather than a step-by-step process video. The most time-consuming part of the process was removing the coconut…
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Contemplating Vetiver
A few weeks ago I bought a bottle of vetiver essential oil and a sachet of dried vetiver roots that had the most wonderful fragrance – a unique and complex combination of a warm earthy base with a sweet citrus/floral top note. Keen to bring the plant responsible for these beautiful products into the garden,…
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Rain, Roses & Lemongrass
The rains have been extremely heavy over the last few weeks which has been stressful for the plants. Some of them weathered the storms fairly well. A few of the roses developed yellow leaves and what looked like the beginnings of black spot, but removing those leaves early on seems to have solved the problem.…