Growing Plant Medicine Vol. 2 by Richo Cech

This is the sister volume to Growing Plant Medicine Vol 1. 

Volume 2 contains the further adventures of the Cech family, followed by hundreds of plant monographs, families Ho to Z.  Monographs cover family characterization followed by species-specific descriptions including zones, plant size, flower color, plant type, plant description root to tip, native distribution, reproductive biology, pollinators, seeds per gram, environmental overview, traditional uses, cultivation both asexual and by seed, potted plant, garden and field production, harvest and preparation, and relevant tips.  Seeds per gram charts with over 500 species listed.  Drying Ratio charts with over 300 species listed.  Extensive plant index with over 1,000 species listed. 

Richo Cech started his professional work as an archaeologist and ethnobotanist in East Africa. Upon his return to the United States in 1978, he began cultivating and saving the seed of medicinal plants. Over the years, his gardens have become the basis for Strictly Medicinal Seeds, growers of organic, open pollinated and GMO-free seed and plants of medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, succulents, trees and garden vegetables. Richo and his family produce a popular, bi-yearly, hand-illustrated seed catalog that provides access to this collection of common, quirky, eclectic, and bizarre seeds and plants. Richo is author of “Making Plant Medicine” (2000), “Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs” (2002), and “The Medicinal Herb Grower” (2009).

Richo has botanized in China and Africa, resulting in the introduction of many new and exciting medicinal herb species to gardeners throughout the world.

The botanical Drawings that grace this book flowed from the steady pen of Sena Cech Olivier. She has enjoyed a lifelong love for spirituality, herbal healing and the art of botany. She lives on her permaculture farm in Williams, OR