Coltsfoot in March

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Coltsfoot is one of the first spring flowers, after the snowdrops, with the flowers appearing first before the leaves. A wonderful herb for sore throats, it likes poor, dry, stony or gravelly ground, like the old cart track it follows at Gowanbank. Coltsfoot was the shop sign for herbalists in earlier centuries. Read more about Coltsfoot.

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