The Saso Herb Gardens in Saratoga no longer exist.

You can still tour the "Virtual Garden"

Catch up with Louie and Virginia Saso with the 2005 newsletter and
special invitation to the new "mini" Saso Herb Gardens in Santa Cruz

Saso Herb Gardens Saso Herb Gardens

St. Fiacre, Patron Saint of Gardens

Email to: virginia@saso.com

To order St. Fiacre for your garden, click here

Many of you have sent emails asking about the history of St. Fiacre. Betty, a long time friend and volunteer in the Herb Gardens has researched the life of St. Fiacre and put together this wonderful article for us.

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A sneak peak into Virginia's Workshop...
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More Pictures(April 1999)

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Open Letter to our Herb Gardening Friends (2000 letter)

Open Letter to our Herb Gardening Friends (1999 letter)

Open Letter to our Herb Gardening Friends (1998 letter)

Open Letter to our Herb Gardening Friends (1997 letter)

Open Letter to our Herb Gardening Friends (1996 letter)

Virginia and Louie

• CHAMOMILE tea is used as a sedative, also good hair rinse for blondes, a pillow filled with chamomile helps induce sleep.
• PEPPERMINT tea is good for relieving headaches, add to comfrey tea.
• SWEET BAY use in cooking, put in cupboard to repel bugs.
• FEVERFEW leaves are eaten to prevent migraine headaches.
• BASIL excellent companion plant in vegetable gardens near tomatoes, used as a token of love in Italy, pots of basil used in France at sidewalk cafes to repel flies.
• GARLIC CHIVES most useful plant in garden. Use leaves in salads for mild garlic taste, excellent border plant, use around roses to repel aphids, plant at base of fruit trees to prevent borers.
• WINTER SAVORY This herb is referred to as the "bean herb." Use in all bean dishes, companion plant to all bean plants, pungent taste excellent as substitute for salt.
• COMFREY the root and foliage contain allantoin, a substance which increases the speed at which wounds and broken bones heal.

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  Useful Links...
  Algy's Herb Page
  Floral Home Company
  Herbnet (Herb Growing and Marketing Network)
  The hyper-text version of A Modern Herbal, by Mrs. M. Grieve.
  Saratoga Community Home Page
  Queensland Herb Society Inc.

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  Saso Herb Gardens
  

  
  [Updated May 2001]

  To order St. Fiacre for your garden, click here