Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

No, the hot weather isn’t getting to me, it’s just the name of THE must-have plant for your GYO garden and I’ve been ever so slightly obsessed with it for twenty something years now since I watched ...

Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is one amazing plant! It is an easy to care for perennial that dies back in the winter if temperatures fall below 30 degrees, but shoots up quickly and early in the warm ...

Comfrey’s many favorable characteristics have made it the new “must grow” in permaculture and regenerative gardens. True comfrey (Symphytum officinalis) has a long history as a medicinal herb and as a ...

I DON’T think you can get a better bumblebee plant for the garden than Russian comfrey (Symphytum × uplandicum). Bumbles of various species work its plentiful, pendulous, blue-purple flowers all day ...

Comfrey is probably not high on your list of desired herbs, but maybe it should be, especially if you are serious about organic practices. Comfrey is probably not high on your list of desired herbs, ...

It sprang up from nothing, as usual, and as a leafy tower a metre high, hung out its pink and purple bells for the bees. Symphytum officinale, or comfrey, totemistic plant of organic gardeners, still ...