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[arethinn]

Does anyone out there happen to have a woodruff plant in their yard? I wanted to make some May wine and bought dried woodruff, and I fear it's just not going to cut it. If I crumble it in my fingers I can faintly smell its characteristic odor, but it's clearly very weak in essential oils compared to the fresh stuff, apparently not something that well handles being dried and stored.

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[rialian.livejournal.com]

===a reasonable amount. It seems to do best in a good quality potting mix I use, in a planter box with semi-good drainage in a mixed shade (More shade than sun...mine is by the bottom stoop of my front steps, under a bit of the shade of a ix, with higher maple overstory.)

[arethinn]

Um, there seems to be some words missing here? are you posting from a tiny mobile keypad? *headscratch*

What I was hoping for was not a live cutting so as to be able to plant it (although I should probably start one of these plants one of these days), but if someone would be willing to cut some and mail it to me. It wouldn't be fresh-fresh but a few days old and wilted is sure to be better than the impotent dried stuff I have.

[eldriwolf.livejournal.com]

where are you?---I have some--I live in Berkeley

[eldriwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah not so far--I don't have a lot of it, a few hands full would be all I could spare.
Unfortunately, the gophers developed a taste for it. How much do you need? I gave some cuttings to a friend---She Might have some...

[arethinn]

I'm in Sunnyvale. I can get to Berkeley but it is a bit of a production, and would probably have to wait for the weekend because of my work schedule. A few handsful is probably enough; I'm just trying to flavour a 750mL bottle of wine, and my recollection is that it doesn't take tons of sprigs to do that.

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

Won't help you that we have it here in abundance. It needs to be used fresh or better, just a tiny bit wilted, then you have the best flavour. You can make a syrup that keeps the flavour, I don't have recipes though.

[arethinn]

Won't help you that we have it here in abundance.

What, in Germany? Yeah, I doubt it. ;)