Calendula

Calendula is one of my favorite flowers. It is so easy to grow and the colors are so bright they bring sunshine into your day.

I have been harvesting the flowers since July and have been making some healing creams and tinctures.

Calendula was well known to the old herbalists as a garden flower and for use in cookery and medicine. In Macer's Herbal it is stated that "only to look on Marigolds will draw evil humours out of the head and strengthen the eyesight."