1. Some of the plants we use in Sweden you wouldn’t be allowed to use here in England – like Platanthera – if you pick a few spikes and put them in a jar they keep away mosquitoes [Stockholm, Sweden, November 1993].
Image: Greater butterfly-orchid (Platanthera chlorantha), Jorge Hempel, Wiki Commons.
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