Gardens in winter
grow in the mind,
skimming through seed catalogs,
dreaming of days to come.

                                                                   Heuchera americana, Coral bells, edged with  winters frost

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                                       NC Unit, Herb Society of America, Inc.
​                                             2025 - 2026 Program Schedule

Explore the wonderful world of growing herbs in your
​outdoor/indoor garden with our members.

 Meetings begin at 9:30 am

September 18    Native Herbs in our Gardens and Kitchens, Kathy Schlosser
October 16         What is Happening to our Pollinators & How Can we Help?, Carmen Atwater
November 20   Natural Dying, Barbara Harris
December 18     Holiday Celebration
January 15           Herb Essential Oils, Their Uses & Cautions, Kathy Schlosser
February 19        TBA
March 19             How Recipes Tell Kitchen, Garden and Personal Stories, Sheri Castle
April 16               Guilford Hill Spice Blends, Chad Smith
May 21                Annual Meeting & Picnic

If you are not a member and would like to attend any of these meetings, please complete the form below for details.

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Winter Approaches.....

Frost on the window. K. Schlosser

Trees along the Lochsa River in Idaho waiting for snow. K. Schlosser

Icycles forming as winter arrives. K. Schlosser

The Frosted Pane
One night came Winter noiselessly, and leaned
Against my window pane.
In the deep stillness of his heart convened
The ghosts of all his slain.

Leaves, and ephemera, and stars of earth,
And fugitives of grass,--
White spirits loosed from bonds of mortal birth,
He drew them on the glass.
                                     Charles G D Roberts, 1898

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The Solitary Woodsman

When the grey lakewater rushes
Past the dripping alder-bushes,
And the bodeful autumn wind
In the fir-tree weeps and hushes,--

When the air is sharply damp
Round the solitary camp,
And the moose-bush inthe thicket
Glimmers like a scarlet lamp,--

When the birches twinkle yellow,
And the Cornel bunches mellow,
And the owl across the twilight
Trumpets to his downy fellow------

And the wind about his eaves
Through the chilly night grieves,
And the earth's dumb patience fills him,
Fellow to the falling leaves.
                                  Excerpt from Charles GD Roberts, 1898

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More Autumn Beauties.....

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Both photos are Rosa rugosa, a native rose with plump fruits good for cooking, beverages, and preparing & drying for later use.

   

Rose Hips

One of my favorite Autumn drives is along the Schoodic Peninsula in Acadia National Park.  A quiet drive along  granite headlands that bear "erosional scars of storm waves and flood tides. Although similar in scenic splendor to portions of Mount Desert Island, the Schoodic Peninsula is a more secluded area."
Among the beauties are Rosa rugosa in full fruit, sometimes with a late flower still in bloom.
Apples, roses, and hawthorns are all members of a single botanical family, the Rosaceae. The fruits of the hawthorn are known as haws. The fruits of the rose are known as hips, a word of Germanic origin from the ninth century, and all are edible.
William Turner, in his New Herbal of 1565, wisely warned that those who "make tarts out of hips should take heed to remove all the 'down from the fruit.' These little hairs inside the hips are quite irritating to the skin."  Good advice!
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3818 N Main Street
High Point, NC 27265

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