One reason I'm glad most healing based plants don't start growing season until March is that it buys me some more time to think about my second year project, and healing plants is definitely what I want to stick with as a specialty. I covered dittany last year, so now I think I'm going to try something that'd be part of an internally taken potion rather than a topical paste.
This post is brought to you on behalf of the fellow Roanoke grad who just wrote to me to ask when I was going to "see sense" and haul myself back to Charleston for "something that would really suit me."