Herbs
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An herb is a plant whose leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, bark or other parts are used for flavor, fragrance, medicine, cosmetics or dyes. They have been use for thousands of years. Herbs are as easy to grow as they are useful, with as many uses as there garden styles. Whether they are grown in an informal mix with vegetables and flowers, or used in a formal garden of straight lines and symetrical patterns, their growing requirements are similar.
Most herbs prefer a sunny location with four to six hours of unshaded sun. They grow best in a well-worked soil with good drainage. It is helpful to add compost to the mix to provide nutrients to promote growth. Be careful not to over-fertilize as this discourages the production of the essential oils in the plants, those elements that give herbs their intense flavors and fragrances. Moderate watering is important, especially until the plant is well established. Many herbs are fairly drought-tolerant. A boon for many gardeners is the resistance to being eaten by deer and other creatures.
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Common Name: Chives
A handy ingredient for French, Chinese and many other cuisines, with a delicate onion flavor. A swath of thin green leaves topped with edible pink-purple blossoms add texture to the herb garden landscape....
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Common Name: Chamomile, Roman
This perennial favorite makes an excellent lawn, edging, or filler between patio stones. It tolerates light foot traffic, giving off a sweet scent reminiscent of apples. Roman chamomile is excellent as a tea, providing a calming effect. Collect the s...
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Common Name: Coriander
A favorite culinary herb since ancient times, this plant produces two distinct flavors with leaves and seed. The fresh leaves offer a cooling taste, perfect for balancing the hot and spicy tastes of Latin and Oriental cuisines, while the seeds offer ...
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Common Name: Arugula
Dark green tender-leaved, seed grown salad herb that prefers cooler temperatures.Harvest the entire plant before it blooms....
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Common Name: Fennel, Green
Elegant and robust in growth with feathery foliage and yellow flower heads producing most useful seeds. Fennel's flavor resembles anise or licorice. Leaves make a lovely garnish, can be added to salads and all manner of meats, eggs, vegetables and sa...
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Common Name: Fennel, Bronze
The bronze-redish hue of the feathery foliage on this unique fennel creates a lovely contrast to the yellow flower heads. Fennel's flavor resembles anise or licorice. Leaves make a lovely garnish, can be added to salads and all manner of meats, eggs,...
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Common Name: Lovage
A kitchen garden staple from medeival times, this forgotten herb deserves a new look. The leaves and seeds have a celery-like flavor, perfect for potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, stuffings, rice, creamed soups, savory pies and vegetables. The roots were ...
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Common Name: Spearmint
Lilac-colored flowers are borne in dense spikes on the tops of leafy stems. Spearmint has a cooling taste, a delightful alternative for those who find peppermint too stimulating. Be sure to add some leaves to your fruit bowls and summertime lemonade....
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Common Name: Catnip
With grey-green leaves and spikes of white flowers this perennial is famous for inducing euphoria in cats. Good resistance to deer. Excellent for tea. Used as medicine throughout recorded history for soothing fevers and inducing sleep. Its minty flav...
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Common Name: Catmint, 'Walker's Low'
Gray-green foliage in compact mound, covered with spikes of blue-lavender flowers. Fragrant. Excellent for containers and rock gardens....
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Common Name: Basil, 'African Blue'
This quick growing ornamental basil has dark green to purple foliage with dark purple spiked flowers. A striking background plant in the garden or in containers, blooming through out the summer....
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Common Name: Basil, Boxwood
A bushy basil with tiny leaves resembling boxwood, this basil makes a good ornamental edging or elegant container plant for your patio.
No garden or kitchen would be complete without basil due to its usefulness in seasoning tomato dishes, soups, sal...
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Common Name: Basil 'Columnar'
'Greek Columnar' basil will create a pleasing height variation in your garden as it grows tall and not so wide across, creating a column effect. It has a slight cinnamon overtone in taste, making it excellent for hearty soups and stews.
No garden or...
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Common Name: Basil, Lemon
Bright green leaves, white flowers and a sweet, tangy lemon basil flavor make Lemon Basil an important resident for your kitchen garden. The delicate flavor of this basil is perfect for seasoning summer dishes including salads, pasta, vegetables, chi...
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Common Name: Basil, 'Dwarf Purple Bush'
The perfect purple basil for containers and garden borders. This short bush is edible and ornamental.
Remove the flowers and tip out the ends to keep it nicely shaped. The purple leaves add color and taste to salads and vinegar....
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Common Name: Basil, 'Purple Ruffles'
A large ruffled leaf purple basil is a useful garnish as well as a beautiful garden plant. The leaves can be used to flavor and add color to vinegar. This is a seed grown variety....
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Common Name: Basil, 'Queen of Sheba'
This low-growing basil is topped with flowerspikes packed with dark purple flowers blooming all summer long, making it as ornamental as it is useful for its spicy flavor. Its small size makes this plant a natural for containers and edging, too, attra...
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Common Name: Basil, 'Siam Queen'
A Thai basil with an attractive compact growth habit, green leaves and purple flowers. 'Siam Queen' is just the perfect seasoning for Thai and Vietnamese cuisine, a distinctive rich anise flavor with a hint of cinnamon as a base note....
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Common Name: Basil, 'Sweet Genovese'
No garden or kitchen would be complete without Sweet Genovese Basil. This is the most flavorful basil for culinary use. It is the magic ingredient in Pesto. It is the perfect component to tomatoe and mozzarella. A tall heat loving herb with dark gree...
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Common Name: Marjoram, Compacta
This compact form of sweet marjoram has small oval dark green leaves and pink-violet flowers. Marjoram has traditionally been associated with marriage and makes a great sachet ingredient for a hope chest. Collect leaves for adding to soups, poultry d...
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Common Name: Marjoram, 'Gold Tip'
Dark green leaves with brilliant golden-yellow tips, lavender-pink flowers.
Collect for adding to soups, poultry dishes, beef, veal and vegetable dishes. Holds its flavor well when dried. Produces a warming and calming effect on the nerves, an exce... [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Parsley, curly
Standard for flavoring meats, stews and soups, butter. Be sure to freeze some for winter use.
Parsley aids digestion, sweetens the breath when chewed, and is a natural diuretic, benefitting both the kidneys and urinary system. However, during pregn... [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Parsley, Italian
Indispensable in the kitchen, flat-leafed parsley for its unique flavor.
Parsley aids digestion, sweetens the breath when chewed, and is a natural diuretic, benefitting both the kidneys and urinary system. However, during pregnancy, use only as a c... [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Patchouli
Velvety green leaves with that distinctive scent to remind us of more blissful times. Collect the leaves for potpourri and moth-repelling sachets....
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Common Name: Salad Burnet
Tall, with small, pink flowers in rounded heads, this ornamental herb was very popular in medieval times for both kitchen and apothecary. The leaves have a cucumber-like flavor, excellent for salads, flavored vinegars, herb butters and iced beverages...
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Common Name: Rosemary, Arp
Arp is a bit more hardy than most other rosemary cultivars. Named for its original home, Arp, Texas, this rosemary has thick grey-green leaves with a slight hint of lemon in its scent.
Rosemary's pungent piney scent does indeed bring back remembranc...
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Common Name: Rosemary, common
Rosemary's pungent piney scent does indeed bring back remembrances of things past and is indispensible in the kitchen. It's energy and effects are warm, stimulating and satisfying to the mind and body, being especially helpful for discomforts such as...
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Common Name: Rosemary, Creeping
Perfect for containers and centerpieces, this rosemary will be handy for holiday decorations.
Rosemary's pungent piney scent does indeed bring back remembrances of things past and is indispensible in the kitchen. It's energy and effects are warm, st...
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Common Name: Sorrel, French
A savory salad green with long, arrow-shaped leaves that grow in a bunch. Excellent cooked like spinach for use in soups and sauces. Young, fresh leaves are a nutritious addition to salads....
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Common Name: Rue
The 'herb of grace' has oval blue green leaves in a lacy arrangement with yellow flowers. Rue has a long history of being used as a protector against witches and plaque. Provides textural interest for dried arrangements. Not recommended for internal ...
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Common Name: Sage, 'Pineapple'
Hummingbirds love the striking red flower spikes in late summer and fall. Green leaves are tinged with light red edges. Amazing pineapple scent is released when the leaves are brushed. Use fresh leaves in fruit salads and teas, and flower spikes as a...
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Common Name: Sage, Gold
The lovely green-gold varigation of the small oval leaves and compact, bushy growth compensate for its few flowers. An ornamental, edible herb....
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Common Name: Sage, 'Berggarten'
Also known as 'Broadleaf Sage', this plant has won horticultural awards for superior flavor, fragrance and garden performance. Large oval-shaped silver-green leaves, compact growth and tolerance of extremes in weather contribute to its attributes....
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Common Name: Sage, Tricolor
The leaves are green with pink, white and purple variegation. Small, thin and oval-shaped leaves are highly aromatic. Light blue flowers in summer. Very useful as an ornamental herb, but not as flavorful as the grey sages....
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Common Name: Sage, Common
Also called 'Grower's Friend' and 'Hybrid #4', this is the most flavorful culinary sage. The perfect companion to all poultry dishes and the key ingredient for turkey and sausages. An attractive garden perennial, this silver-leafed beauty reaches up ...
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Common Name: Sage, Purple
Purple foliage and the pungent flavor make this a garden essential. Elongated, textured purple leaves with bushy growth make a striking contrast when grown in the garden or in containers. Mauve blue flowers in late summer....
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Common Name: Santolina, Grey
A compact aromatic plant with soft silver fringed leaves and small yellow flowerheads in summer. The perfect plant for knot gardens, useful for creating silver symetrical lines in the garden....
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Common Name: Santolina, Green
Aromatic evergreen with small, yellow button flowers and elegant small fringed leaves. Green santolina compliments the grey santolina as a symetrical design element in a border or knot garden. The strong scent acts as an insect repellant....
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Common Name: Savory, Winter
Small dark green pointed leaves cover this hardy low-growing shrub. Bees love the small lilac flowers in summer. Trim after blooming to stimulate new growth. Grow as a low-clipped edging in beds or knot gardens....
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Common Name: Stevia
Native to Paraguay, stevia was called "Sweet Leaf", having 10-15 times the sweetness of sugar! Stevia was used as a tonic in South American native traditions. Dry the leaves and grind to use in your kitchen as a natural substitute for sugar and other...
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Common Name: Thyme, Golden Lemon
This plant is useful in the kitchen and the garden with beautiful yellow-edged small-leaved green foliage and an amazing lemony scent. The bi-colored leaves brighten the garden path and add great contrast to container gardens. A vigorous grower that ...
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Common Name: Thyme, English
This is the best thyme for culinary uses with round, flat green leaves forming a small upright evergreen perennial shrub. The leaves can be used fresh or dried in all cuisines. Especially good in herbal vinegars and butters....
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Common Name: Thyme, Silver
A flavorful aromatic with small white-edged silver leaves and lavender blooms in summer. Very useful in the border, for edging and in containers....
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