Sweet Shrub Uses
Carolina sweet shrub likes a neutral to mildly acidic soil ph ranging from 6 1 to 7 5.
Sweet shrub uses. People often note the similarity in flavor of sweet shrub and sassafras. Sweet shrub requires little in the way of maintenance but you. Caring for sweet shrub 1. The shrubs can be pruned to shorter heights for use as a foundation plant.
I don t tincture it and mostly use it as a beverage tea rather than one of my primary therapeutic herbs. After you have planted sweet shrub it s important to keep it. It also is a good choice to integrate cultivated gardens into naturalized areas. Water sweet shrub frequently until well established.
Meadowsweet is a plant. Carolina allspice makes a wonderful foundation planting. Sweetshrub does well in combinations with other shrubs shrub borders or as fence or foundation plantings. The parts that grow above the ground are used to make medicine.
Water carolina sweet shrub only during times of drought making sure to provide it with about an inch of water per week. Meadowsweet is used for colds bronchitis upset stomach heartburn peptic ulcer disease and joint. Protect your sweet shrub from. The shrub makes a good deciduous hedge and can be sheared to maintain the shape.
I use the twigs in tea and mead with their spicy sweet flavor and aroma. Prune sweet shrub in early summer after flowering. Sweet shrub is a diaphoretic carminative stimulant and aromatic bitter. In shrub borders and as specimens thin carolina allspice to several upright branches arising from the ground.