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My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived). In between these two poles lies a wide spectrum of plant medicine with significant medical applications. One need only go to the United States Pharacopoeia to see the central role that plant medicine has played in American medicine.

I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,Nor long summer bide so late;And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,For some things are ill to wait.

The foxglove, with it’s stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.