Meadowsweet

One sense may bring dreams and echoes of another – you can see green water-shadows when the scent of meadowsweet is in the air, and hear remembered music when a certain light is on the hills. ❋ Unknown (1917)

- also called meadowsweet does well in the shade and offers tons of color choices although mostly in the red, pink, lavender family. eMail (will not be published) (required) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Good spirits ... a glass of John Wright's homemade meadowsweet grass vodka, mixed with juice from apples in his garden. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Heavy doses of nitrogen fertiliser will tip the competitive balance in favour of grasses, and soon purple wood crane's bill, blood-red greater burnet, frothy white pignut and meadowsweet, yellow lady's bedstraw, globe flower and blue speedwells will vanish, leaving an "improved" pasture – more productive, more profitable, but oh-so dull. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The wonderful smell of lady's bedstraw not as sickly as meadowsweet becomes stronger with drying. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I knew that meadowsweet contained coumarin, but it's rather late in the season for this plant. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Having completed my experiments I must say that, despite my misgivings, meadowsweet came out on top, tasting remarkably like Susanne's brew. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But if you have a space to grow, why not begin in the garden, in conceiving original dried blends: meadowsweet, verbena, bergamot, gardenia, tuberose, thyme, honeysuckle, sage and violet. ❋ William L. Hamilton (2011)

I suggest filling the jar loosely one half full of dried plant, perhaps less for the more potent meadowsweet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Rainwater filled the deeper pits, and thistle and tansy and meadowsweet surrounded these tarns with thick growth, the flowers reflected in the still water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A few swallows swoop low and the rank green is broken by pink hemp agrimony, cream meadowsweet, blue tufted vetch and purple knapweed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scattered through the yellow flag are stems of horsetail bearing spiky, concentric whorls of leaves, and below them the jagged-edged leaflets of the meadowsweet are just starting to appear. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Each morning, Mr. Willetts cycles from his home nearby, stopping off along the way to pick vegetation such as honeysuckle, borage, sweet violets, horehound and meadowsweet, which will end up on one of the dishes at the restaurant later that day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For gastric use it is often mixed with marshmallow and meadowsweet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• If any poet deserves to have his statue in a railway station, I feel that Edward Thomas does in Adlestrop Editorial, 28 January, except that no doubt willow-herb and grass and meadowsweet have long ago completely taken over. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I used what I could find: sage or meadowsweet in the bedstraw, germander and thyme growing between the stones of the courtyard. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Long a remedy for flu, fever, and arthritis, meadowsweet contains an aspirin-type compound called salicylic acid. ❋ Earl Mindell (2008)