Mary Sue

I used the more common variety with the larger flowers. thanks for your response!

r ranson wrote:Where I live, we have two varieties of St John's Wort.  The tiny delicate flowered version and the massive four-inch wide flowers and big siny leaves.  They have the same name, but I understand they are from different families.  

I've seen both used for healing tinctures but they produce different coloured results.  

Which one did you use?

Oh thanks so much! Hmm.... yes i did use fresh flowers, so hopefully it will have the same effect (even though it's more orange then red).

Hi friends! I made a St. Johns Wort tincture about 6 weeks ago (soaking the fresh yellow leaves in alcohol).  The liquid hasn't turned red (it's orange/yellow). Does anyone know if it would be effective? I wanted to take if for anxiety. I picked the flowers a little late in the season (July), but I picked new blooms and not flowers that were full or fading.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.