Verbena

In Siena neighbors started singing a traditional Tuscan folk song, Il Canto della Verbena, one of the town's most cherished melodies and sung since the Middle Ages.

The pageantry can best be seen in California’s 640,000 acre Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, northeast of San Diego, where visitors can wander among the fanfare of hot pink Bigelow’s Monkey Flower, purple Sand Verbena, and white and yellow Evening Primrose.

Native tropical plants such as moringa, palma christi, verbena and aloe are routinely used to treat health ailments such as colds and flu.

In Siena they started singing a traditional Tuscan folk song, The Song of the Verbena (And While Siena Sleeps), one of the town’s most cherished melodies and sung since the Middle Ages.

Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -

Hidden behind a large stone urn full of verbena, Dottie watched as her enemy greeted Johnny at the door.