Rue
Perennial
I would not recommend using rue in cooking or medicinally unless you are an experienced herbalist, but it has so many other wonderful qualities that I am sure you’ll want to have it in your herb garden. Besides have lovely silver-green leaves and yellow flowers, it is a host plant for Giant and Black Swallowtail butterflies. The flowers are visited by a myriad of other pollinating insects too. Traditionally it was called the “herb of grace” and the Catholic church would dip branches of rue in holy water and sprinkle it over the heads of parishioners as a blessing. Even today, many Mexican and Latin Americans have a rue plant in their house as protection and to maintain good fortune.
Perennial
I would not recommend using rue in cooking or medicinally unless you are an experienced herbalist, but it has so many other wonderful qualities that I am sure you’ll want to have it in your herb garden. Besides have lovely silver-green leaves and yellow flowers, it is a host plant for Giant and Black Swallowtail butterflies. The flowers are visited by a myriad of other pollinating insects too. Traditionally it was called the “herb of grace” and the Catholic church would dip branches of rue in holy water and sprinkle it over the heads of parishioners as a blessing. Even today, many Mexican and Latin Americans have a rue plant in their house as protection and to maintain good fortune.
Perennial
I would not recommend using rue in cooking or medicinally unless you are an experienced herbalist, but it has so many other wonderful qualities that I am sure you’ll want to have it in your herb garden. Besides have lovely silver-green leaves and yellow flowers, it is a host plant for Giant and Black Swallowtail butterflies. The flowers are visited by a myriad of other pollinating insects too. Traditionally it was called the “herb of grace” and the Catholic church would dip branches of rue in holy water and sprinkle it over the heads of parishioners as a blessing. Even today, many Mexican and Latin Americans have a rue plant in their house as protection and to maintain good fortune.
