Mints

And there you've got the phenolic essential oils.

And a lot of them, as you say, come from the Lamiaceae family.

So

we have the Thymes and the Oreganos with their components that we call thymol or carvacrol.

You are called holy And adaptogenic for a reason.

Tulsi, AKA holy basil, represents the mint family, the Lamiaceae, which includes aromatics like peppermint, spearmint, rosemary, thyme, oregano, lavender, skullcap, and many more.

Many of these mint family friends expand and uplift with their fragrance, opening, opening, opening respiration, digestion, circulation, emotions, thoughts, and [inhales] imagination.

Autumn Metal governs your lungs and large intestine, how you inhale inspiration, then release what you no longer need.

Very few members have they admitted that do not belong to two approved families, and such unrelated ones as do reach the charmed circles must first prove their worthiness and then hold their places by intrinsic merit.

These two coteries are known as the Labiatae and the Umbelliferae.

The former including the sages, mints, and their connections.

The latter, the parsleys and their relatives.

With the exception of tarragon, which belongs to the Compositae, parsley and a few of its relatives, which have deserted their own ranks, all the important leaf herbs belong to the Labiatae, and without a notable exception, all the herbs whose seeds are used for flavoring belong to the Umbelliferae.

Fennel flower, which belongs to the natural order Ranunculaceae, or crowfoot family, is a candidate for admission to the seed sodality.

Costmary and southernwood of the Compositae seek membership with the leaf faction.

Marigold, a composite, forms a clique by itself, the most exclusive club of all.

And I thought, "Well, I need some of that brilliance.

I need more from the plants than just staying alive in a small, compact, aromatic sort of way," as those members of the Lamiaceae I was talking about last week are doing.

The second reason I bought it was because it was my dad's absolute favorite plant from about 20 years before his death when I started getting into horticulture.

When I first got a horticultural trade account, I bought him a little Ma- Musa basjoo about the size of the one that I have just bought myself in a one-liter pot, and it went into his garden and grew vast, and had pups, and was split about the place.

A lot of the pulmonarias lay completely flat upon the ground, no longer water turgidity in the leaves, no longer the water pressure to hold them upright, so they spread themselves flatly.

It's amazing, I saw, um, walking my son to nursery along Crystal Palace Road, I went past this garden, an olive tree, and then an under-planting of, of Phlomis russeliana, the Turkish sage, that, um, that sort of plant that sends up pom-poms of yellow Lamiaceae flowers that stand upright on the stem like great balloons impaled on a, on a church spire.

And this thing, these things were lying completely flat to the ground.

The leaves couldn't have been more than a centimeter off the ground, any of them, and they'd perfectly carpeted the area.

They'll have to wait another four days [laughs] to get their next one.

Hopefully, hopefully everything will be okay until then.

[upbeat music] Other things in the garden that fared well, everything in Lamiaceae.

That family of drought avoiders survived.