LGs Herbal Cottage offers:
Herb of the Month Club - we have three levels - Thyme ($20) per month, Rosemary ($35) or Lavendar ($55) and you will receive 3,5,7 plants ready for your garden and our newsletter with planting tips and cooking uses. E-mail Linda for more information. If you purchase the entire year as a gift you save two months on the price.
Order our new Herbal Tea of the Month Club we'll prepare a basket of your favorite teas and Seagrove pottery. Prices range for $15/month to $45/mo) Give the Lavender level of the club and select one of the many themes we are offering, i.e. Mystery or romance, we provide an entire tea set and accessories over the course of the year along with an assortment of fresh herbal tea. Pay for the year and receive two months free.
For weddings we can arrange:
Fresh flower bouquets, table arrangements with combination of flowers and herbs (we have connections with an orchid greenhouse) for head pieces, boutionniers, corsages, table favors etc.
Fresh herbs for use in cooking
Dried herbs, especially tea and for cooking, but also for invitations and ornamental bouquets.
Ornamental and/or Culinary wreaths
Potpourri - rose-petal, lavendar and calendula
-orange peel, bay, palmetto berries and cinnamon
Natural pest control - red cedar chips, eucalyptus, pennyroyal, lavendar and citronella
Potpourri can be purchased by the ounce in plastic bags or in antique French cotton (straight from the Paris flea market) or American cloth from the 1970s. The sachets are approximately 3 inches long by 2 inches wide with lace or ribbon draw string. You may custom order sachets in any size you like for closets, drawers, or loose in Seagrove pottery bowls. LGs Herbal Cottage also hand sews pot holders and coasters with your choice of scent. We have a selection of older quilt squares and lace or more modern fabric for your bridal guest thank you gifts.
Herbal bouquets for special occasions--Tussie Mussies - see below for order form and for description of symbolic meaning of various herbs or e-mail Linda.
Bath salts - special envelops with a mixture of approximately one ounce of dead sea salt, epsom salts, baking soda, vegetable oil and your choice of essential oils. I recommend lavendar, or peace and calm for relaxing before bedtime.
Herbal Cottage also sells Young Living Essential Oils (therapeutic grade) for aromatherapy and Perelandra Flower Essences (call to schedule an appointment).
Gift baskets can be prepared with Seagrove pottery for herbal tea, for potpourri, flower vases, to act as room diffusers for essential oils and perfume bottles.
LGs Herbal Cottage is able to offer unique herbs such as African blue basil, lemongrass, seven types of thyme from Mother of Thyme to Lime Thyme, five different mints including chocolate, orange and corsican mint. If you would like an extraordinary herb garden, we mail anywhere in the continental US; we guarantee survival - if its dead we replace it for free! We have a wonderful plant selection from sweet annie to lavender and can plant them in wrought iron planters.
Herbal Tea
I can promise that any herbal blend you select will taste terrific and be healthful and healing. I intuitively blend herbs for tea depending upon what your body needs. Please include any current symptoms or reasons for requesting a specific herbal tea in your order.
Current tea selection includes: Bergamot, Chamomile, Calendula,Feverfew, Hibiscus,Lavender, Lemon Verbena, Spearmint, Peppermint,Red Clover; Red Raspberry, Comfrey,Slippery Elm, Sassafrass
Tussie-Mussie
A Tussie-Mussie is a small bouquet of herbs and flowers chosen for their specific symbolic meaning. The nosegay is put in a lacepaper doily and tied with a brightly colored ribbon. The gift card includes the message symbolized by the herbs selected.
If you would like to order a Tussie Mussie we can deliver to someone special within 48 hours in the continental US, please print out and e-mail form.
Order Form
Tussie-Mussies, a Victorian tradition, these small bouquets are used today in celebrations such as sacred ceremonies and weddings.
Herb Symbolic Meaning
___ Angelica Inspiration
___ Basil Love, courtship, good wishes
___ Lemon Balm Sympathy
___ Bay Protection from evil
___ Calendula Happiness and sunshine
___ Chamomile Patience, fortitude
___ Comfrey Knitting together/working together
___ Daisy Purity in thought, loyal love and innocence
___ Dill to lull or sooth (hinders witches)
___ fennel ceremonial seeds, help, strength
___ germander facility
___ horehound health
___ hyssop cleanliness
___ Ivy God, trinity, eternity
___ Lambs ears healing
___ Lavender luck, purity, virtue, sweetness,
undying love
___ Lemon Verbena Kingliness
___ Marjoram honor, gift of banishing sadness, happiness
___ Mints wisdom, cheerfulness, hospitality, virtue
___ Parsley festivity, useful knowledge
___ Rose (white) innocence
___ Rose (red) love and desire
___ rosemary memory, fidelity, loyalty, enduring love
___ sage wisdom, esteem, good health, serenity
___ tarragon cure for beast bites (esp. dragons)
___ thistle never forget
___ thyme courage, bravery, energy and affection
___ vervain grace, enchantment
'You have bewitched me'
___ yarrow dream of a loved one
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ART/GIFT BOOKS
Linda has created a number of herbal gift books, these come with either photographs, dried herbs or packets of bath salts with the requested herbs. These are custom made scrap books with dried flowers, poetry, and art. If you have a special someone you would like to receive one of these unique creations, please contact us and we will mail you a wonderful gift including as many herbs as possible. Prices start at $20 and up depending upon the amount of work involved. These books can also be customized for business to senas gifts d to their clients and customers.
