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Warret’s Herbal

Tamson Warret

	Banlen Ale: This pretty green-blue leaf is grown as much for ornament as for it’s other properties. Often grown on the kitchen windowsill when there are youths in the house. In fact, it’s perfectly happy to grow in the same conditions that tomatoes do.When in a pot, looks like a straggly cultivated tree with full sized eye-shaped leaves.
Bellyful: Tends to grown in sandy soil, will run rampant over any kitchen garden it finds. Has a very long taproot, and if a piece of the root the size of a pea remains, the plant can regrow. For this reason, grow in a separate pot, half soil half sand. The planthead is considered at it's best when displaying a double ringed crown. Leaf has thick black hairs on the upper side.
	Gotterdammerung: This obscure mountain bush resists all attempts at cultivation, there’s a standing competition run by the Doge of Polisis that any grower who can find the correct method of propagation with be rewarded their weight in gold. Often mistaken for a commoner bush with great woolly cotton-like mounds all over it, though it is about the size of a person.The pods are about the size of a hand when opened.
Heartbreak: A glorified weed, this will grow on exposed rocks, particularly older specimens that are already covered in moss and lichen. Has a particular affinity for altar stones, and indeed is almost certainly holding some of the older ones together. All over the Continent there are crumbling stones held together with tight little knots of a weed possessing heart-shaped leaves, with ragged holes through the middle of each leaf.
	Heathwort: The thorns combined with the little pudgy seed pods do not make this a plant grown for ornament, though the odd bitter, almost dark roasted fragrance makes it ever popular with the goodwife. It is traditionally said to have "Rosewood thorns combined with sherpherd’s purse seedpods, which make it an ugly little plant, and it is probably kin to a straggly cactus."
Lady’s Prayer: Never grown in the gardens of male growers, midwives in Verovering often grow the thin brown pods around their garden gates as advertisement. A trailing plant, it’s unusual for producing seedpods all year round. Glossy vine and seed pods, likes to run along fences or up trellises. It has pods similar to those of the vanilla, complete with little black seeds.
	Marsh Pillow: Despite the beautiful arcing white flowers that give this plant it’s name and indeed the light fragrance that spreads on the golden clouds of pollen, this plant is not much cultivated as it is exceptionally thirsty, and needs constant watering. Flower closes every night and opens at first light releasing a cloud of golden pollen to be carried by the wind. At that point all that is visible scross the marsh is big white puffy flowers, clouds of pollen, with tiny almost lily-pad leaves.
Spearbright and Shieldbright: These two plants grow together, and due to their identical flowers can only be told apart by their leaf shape. Tending to grow wild in meadows, both plants are very easy to grow in gardens and pots. Both have tiny white bell-shaped flowers, where the spear kind has thin long leaves the shield ones are shaped like their namesake, the stem growing out the top of the ‘shield’. Note the identical flowers and stems.
	Spearbright: See above.
Widow’s Weeds: This plant tends to founder in gardens since it is very easy to drown, requiring so little water that the stunted roots system soon becomes awash. Another windowsill favourite for this reason, particularly for healers. Careful not to overwater, hugs the soil, leaves are dark purple in colour with black veins. When correctly cared for, has thin dark leaves that nonetheless give the vague impression of a long dress with puffy sleeves. Hugs the soil tightly.
	Winter’s Kiss: With a sweet minted fragrance and the delicate patterning on the leaves, this plant is popular in ornamental gardens too. It can grow up to about eight feet though, so twice-yearly pruning is needed. Note the fine veining. Left is allowed to grow free, right is trimmed to hedge.In any case put forth nettle-shaped leaves, lots of whippy young growth all over the place, a very tall thin plant overall.