The obvious one is lavender but personally I find chamomile to be fantastic. When I'm wallowing on a chamomile-filled pillow I'm suddenly snoozing away in a beautiful garden with my head cushioned by a cushion of chamomile.
I have tried growing this pretty daisy-like herb but it really is a wimp and gives way to any challenge so I'm going to have to source my supplies elsewhere.
Another great sleep-promoting herb to use is hops. James Wong in his very fabulous BBC tv series Grow Your Own Drugs a few years ago raved about its benefits. I'm ashamed to say I did manage to get my hands on some dried hops at the time and made my lovely Mum a hoppy pillow but did not try it out for myself.... I believe there were mutterings about the bed smelling like a brewery which many would think is no bad thing but not my (almost) teetotal Mum!
All that is about to change as I have ordered some packs from Essentially Hops and I'm pondering the idea of growing my own. Can you imagine the house festooned with harvested garlands drying out to stuff into pillows?
I'm also wondering about stitching the herby sleep recipe onto the muslin sacks or should I leave them plain (see above)? Yesterday I acquired a Free motion embroidery darning foot so maybe you can see that I'm just looking for another excuse to play?
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