This past summer, I had to weed out some plants of my favorite herb: sweet annie. I hung the biggest plants out to dry on my back porch. They have been a bit of an eyesore because I haven’t gotten around to doing anything with them.
Yesterday I finally stripped all the leaves off the plants and put them in a bowl. They smell really sweet. I’m wondering what to do with them now. Do I make tea? Do I sprinkle the leaves in bathwater? Do I burn them like incense? Do I just keep the bowl by my couch so I can sniff it every once in a while?
You could apparently open your own pharmaceutical:
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-756-sweet%20annie.aspx?activeingredientid=756&activeingredientname=sweet%20annie.
Have fun with that.
Can you sew little pouches and fill them with the leaves? I think those are called sachets. You put them in your dresser drawers and it’s supposed to make your clothes smell nice.
Don’t you have some paraphernalia left over from your college days? You could light it up! It is legal in Maryland, right?