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How to Grow and Care for Ginseng Ficus Bonsai

Ginseng ficus is a tropical plant native to Southeast Asia and is a member of the Moraceae or mulberry family. It grows best ...
Yahoo

The 8 best plants for an indoor zen garden – what to grow to add calm and tranquility to your home

Calming, simple, serene, Japanese Zen gardens are the complete opposite of busy, loud urban life. Beautifully lush green planting, interrupted by soft rounded stones and swathes of gravel raked into ...
USA Today

What is ginseng good for and should you be taking it? Benefits and when to be careful

Western medicine has borrowed many of its most popular foods and practices from the East. Acupuncture, yoga, meditation and a host of popular herbal medicines were first introduced as ancient eastern ...
WDBJ

Grown Here at Home: Harvesting wild ginseng in Virginia requires the right paperwork

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - Ginseng has a long history in the U.S. “There’s records of Daniel Boone harvesting and shipping it out, basically wagon loads and boat loads of ginseng to Asia,” explained Keith ...
NPR

Where does the ginseng in your tea come from? A new graphic memoir explains the trade

In 2011, cartoonist Craig Thompson fell on his moneymaker – by which I mean his drawing hand. The author of the award-winning (and often banned) graphic memoir Blankets was in China, riding a bamboo ...