There is an ever-growing demand to use medicinal plants in our landscape design. This could be brought on by the overuse of prescription medications or perhaps it is just a desire to return to more holistic practices as we are faced with growing challenges in the world. Let’s take a look at some of the available plants that intrinsically hold both medicinal and aesthetic values. Each of the plants below have many healing benefits and an entire blog could be written for each.
- Goldenrod
- Blue vervain
- Butterfly-weed
- Joe-Pye Weed
- Prairie smoke
- Solomon’s seal
- Swamp milkweed
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda)
- Violet
- Yarrow
If you are interested in having Medicinal plant incorporated into your landscape please let us know. This is a life changing way of looking at native landscaping and it should be something that anyone should look into if they are suffering from chronic conditions that are not being helped through the use of conventional medicines.