The herb garden featured in this segment is the result of a project originally undertaken by a Cornell University doctoral student, and carried on the Central Ohio Herb Society of America. The herb garden is a showpiece at the Inniswood Metro Garden in Westerville, Ohio. Among its unique landscaping features are the various types of herb garden groupings. CompuServeCD highlighted the blue gray garden, the culinary garden, and the medicinal. There are also grouping for a Bible garden and an area devoted to some 50 varieties of thyme.
Horticulturist Mike Heise describes the blue gray garden plants as varieties of lavender, artemesias, false blue fescue, baptisia australus or false blue indigo. In the culinary garden, several strains of basis, alium shoeneprasum and common nasturtiums grew alongside dill, parsley, oregano and fennel. The medicinal garden contained the two varieties of digitalis shown in the video, errhinus or lobelia, chamomile, feverfew, comfrey and hyssop.
Specialists in this Segment
In this segment, CompuServeCD spoke to homeopathic herb specialists Carrie Brasseur and Dr. Mitchell Stargrove. Carrie Brasseur, of Brasseur's Botanicals in central Ohio, sells pharmaceutical herbs for homeopathic medicines. Brasseur spoke about the types of herbs that can be grown which are valuable for treating minor ailments. Dr. Mitchell Stargrove is an online resource for homeopathy and alternative medicine advice.
