Shepherd's Cross Bible Garden Podcast
Shepherd's Cross Bible Garden features over 100 plants with Biblical references. The Bible Garden is a self guided tour, featuring plants on placard or on audio podcasts. The Garden is reminiscent of an Old English Country Garden.
Shepherd's Cross Bible Garden Podcast
Hyssop
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Hyssop
Hyssopus officinalis
Appearance: Hyssop is an upright branching plant in the mint family. It has narrow oblong leaves. The hyssop grows small blue flowers near the tips of its branches.
The hyssop is native to the Holy Land, where it was used in the Passover. It was also a plant used in the purifying rites associated with Jewish life. The writer of Psalms asks God to purify them with hyssop.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalm 51:7 KJV