THERE is a softness about members of the borage family. The gossamer hairs on leaf and stem catch the dew as effectively as any spider's web and the flowers, loved by bees, often come, as with ...

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 ...

She went to buy comfrey leaves at a market but actually picked up a foxglove, which contains poison that slows the heart A WOMAN almost killed herself by mistakenly using poison to brew a herbal tea ...