Annual Herbs
- Arugula Also known as “Roquette” is a salad green with a distinctive, peppery flavor. Begin harvesting when the leaves are 3″ and use raw in salads or garnishes or wilted in rice and pasta dishes.
- Basil Compact This is a sweet, compact basil with heavily cupped, dark foliage and the wonderful taste and aroma of Genovese. A great option for a potted herb! 16-18″ht
- Basil Genovese This is an Italian basil with a multi-branching structure and a deep-green leaf. It yearns for regular harvesting all season which keeps the growth young and tender. Terrific in sauce, paired with tomatoes, or blended into pesto! 20-24″ht
- Basil Holy This basil is also known as “Tulsi” and is actually in the oregano family! It is a wonderfully, fragrant attractor for pollinators and can be dried for a
spicy, fruity, floral tasting tea or wilted upon rice dishes for amazing flavor. A sacred plant in the Hindu tradition, a “must have” in our gardens. 18″ht - Basil Italian Large Leaf This is our favorite basil for culinary uses. Its leaves are large and sweet in both flavor and scent. It offers an abundant harvest for all your basil needs! 24-30″ht
- Basil Lemon A smaller leafed basil with a lemony fragrance and taste. Offering great culinary options or a heavenly scent to garden paths. 15″ht
- Basil Purple Petra Offering all the benefits of culinary basil with a rich purple hue! Flowers are a soft pink in color and the foliage adds the drama of its beautiful color to dressings and vinegars. It is a statement in the garden and kitchen alike! 15″ht
- Basil Spicy Bush This is a wonderful mounding basil with a compact leaf. Grows well in the garden or as a potted herb adding structure and form with its dome shape. 10″ht
- Basil Sweet Thai This beautiful basil has deep green elongated foliage on purple stems and offers a spicy anise/clove flavor and aroma. 18″ht
- Borage Clusters of starry blue flowers rise above silvery green foliage. Use the leaves fresh for tea or the flowers in culinary dishes to impart a cucumber-like taste. Wildly attractive for pollinators! 24-36″ht sun/partial shade
- Chamomile This lovely soft herb offers mounds of beautiful daisy like flowers on frothy stems. It is known for its soft, calming aroma and is used for bedtime teas or to add whimsy to salads, desserts and drinks. 24″ht
- Cilantro Bring on the flavor! Used in salsa and South West cooking as well as Thai dishes with a citrus, floral flavor delicious in everything. It becomes a pollinator attractor once it flowers and then produces its seeds which are “Coriander ” in culinary circles. 18″ht
- Cutting Celery This leafy herb is easily grown and offers the same versatile uses and flavor as standard celery. Cut and use both stems and leaves. 85days
- Dill Bouquet This is our go to for pickling! It is a wonderful, bushy variety offering many fronds to add to your cooking. From creamy dill potatoes, and deviled eggs, to pickled cucumbers and beans… we plant an abundance of this herb! 24″ht
- Parsley Curly Parsley is a biennial meaning that in
its first year in the garden it produces an abundance of tender foliage followed by a second year where its mission is to flower and produce seed. Since we are looking for the foliage for culinary use, we grow it as an annual fresh each year! 12″ht - Parsley Italian Flat Leaf This parsley is known for its strong flavor and vigorous growth. Not quite as tender as the curly variety, but delicious in stews, stir-fries, and chopped into salads. 18″ht
Perennial Herbs and Perennial Flowers
- Anise Hyssop This lovely plant grows easily bearing blue-lavender flower spikes from July through September. It makes a wonderful tea and attracts bees and Gold Finches! 48″ ht full sun
- Blue Vervain An elegant, native, wildflower offering spires of blue-purple blooms adding whimsy to gardens and meadows alike. 4-6′ ht full sun
- Catmint Catmint offers a sprawling habit with profuse lavender blooms atop grey green foliage. It is a wonderful choice for edging a border or spilling over a garden wall. 12-15″ht sun/ light shade
- Campanula Blue Clips Masses of azure blue bellflowers dance above a mound of green foliage spreading up to 12″! Beautiful at the front of the border garden, easy to grow, and blooming June right into the autumn. 8-12″ht sun/partial shade
- Chives Offering a mild, onion flavor from tender
green shoots and beautiful early spring color in its globe, lavender flower heads. This beauty retains its vase shape and offers its flavor to salad dressings and herbal vinegars alike, as well as the traditional sour cream! 16″ht - Garlic Chives This chive offers a bit wider flatter leaf with a mild garlic flavor. Its soft white cluster flowers rise above the delicate foliage and offer interest to the garden and the dish as well. 12″ht
- Coreopsis Early Sunrise Golden yellow, semi-double blooms on 20″ stems offering a long flowering duration early summer to early fall. A neat, compact variety with bright prolific blooms! 20″ht full sun
- Digitalis (Foxglove) Camelot Mix Blooming first year from seed, this digitalis offers large, full, center spires with secondary blooms along side. Shades of cream, lavender, rose and white are sure to brighten the early summer garden! 28-40″ht Partial Shade
- Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit and Purple Purpurea Hardy and vigorous, this North American native offers beautiful blooms atop dark green foliage. It is a favorite of butterflies offering nectar rich blooms which then dry in place offering gorgeous cones for fall interest. Cheyenne Spirit is a mix of gold, scarlet and orange blooms while Purple Purpurea is magenta petaled with an orange center. 24-36″ht full sun
- Feverfew This wonderful, daisy-like bloomer offers masses of small white clusters atop a frothy foliage. Drought tolerant and easy to grow, it has been a favorite since Victorian times. It makes a perfect cut flower adding charm to the garden and vase alike and is known to reseed itself. 12-24″ ht full sun
- Hollyhock Shades of Pink This is our own mix of single and double petaled hollyhocks in all shades of pinks and white! 6’ht
- Lady’s Mantle This beautiful perennial offers a mounding habit with ruffle edged leaves and elegant clusters of chartreuse flowers. It is known as a healer of broken tissue and is thought to calm the nerves aiding with insomnia and anxiety. 24″ht
- Lavender An English lavender with large, deep purple blooms on a uniform, well-branched mound of soft gray-green aromatic foliage. Often used as edging, it is a bit more structured than the French variety, but has the same culinary uses. 20″ht full sun
- Lemon Balm This herb offers a distinct lemon flavor to teas and salads. When in bloom it is a pollinator attractor while forming a lush green underplanting for fruit trees or border gardens. 20″ht
- Lemon Verbena This tender perennial herb is a must for those who love the aroma of lemons! It produces sprays of petite purple and white flowers in early summer and offers its elongated leaves all summer long. It is used in all culinary practices, as well as for a wonderful tea. Prized for its medicinal qualities soothing both body and mind. 6-9’ht
- Mint Blue Balsam This wonderful mint adds a minty aroma and taste to just about any dish. Used in beverages and desserts along with salads and main dishes this is a versatile herb! It is a vigorous plant and will spread if allowed. 24″ht
- Oregano Greek oregano is a vigorous perennial with a pungent aroma and a distinct flavor. Its dark green
leaves form a mat of foliage topped with small clusters of petite white flowers. The growth is most flavorful when harvested young and it dries for winter use with ease! - Rosemary is a tender-perennial offering its wonderful flavor to roasts, grilled items and stews. It grows on well branching spires and dries easily for future use, harvest often to encourage new growth.
- Garden Sage This herb offers soft gray-green foliage on bushy plants. Known for its uses flavoring fish and poultry as well as stuffings with its aromatic, floral flavor. It is harvested all summer long and will flower with beautiful deep purple blooms in its second year! 18″ht
- Pineapple Sage This tender sage offers bright red tubular blossoms on long stems attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators abundantly! Its blooms and leaves provide a wonderful pineapple aroma and taste to dishes, cocktails and teas. It is a favorite in the garden! 36″ht
- Purple Sage This sage offers beautiful purple foliage and stems making it not only wonderful for cooking but a stunning addition to the garden for its appearance. It can be harvested and used just as Garden sage or ornamentally as a bouquet filler. 12″ht
- Tarragon French Famous in French cooking this herb offers a sweet minty flavor with hints of eucalyptus and peppery anise. Its tender leaves can be added to salads or cocktails, or to freshen your favorite dishes. It adds an aromatic presence to the garden, thriving in full sun conditions. 36″ht
- Creeping Thyme This is a low growing thyme often used to fill in around stone pathways. It is hardy and aromatic spreading softly and can be harvested for culinary uses as well. 6″ht
- Winter Thyme This is your classic culinary thyme grown in a creeping mound offering its harvest in all four seasons! It is perhaps my favorite herb for cooking as its flavor pairs with everything. This one is a “must have” in multiples in my gardens. 10″ht
- Yarrow Red Shades. This long flowering perennial offers cluster blooms of red, rose, or lavender atop a fern-like, deep-green foliage. Flowering in its first year it will add beauty and color this season and those to follow. It is an exceptional cut flower with a long vase life and offers resiliency in the garden tolerating heat and drought conditions. 28-36″ht full sun
Annual Edible Flowers
- Calendula Erfurter This annual flower has large, vibrant orange blooms prized for both beauty and its medicinal qualities. Calendulas are dried for tea and
infused in oils for their healing properties. Harvest the flowers once fully opened prompting new growth and future blooms. 18″ht - Gem Marigolds These edible annual flowers offer a citrus, floral taste when added to culinary dishes. They offer a mounding growth habit with frothy aromatic foliage and prolific petite flowers in lemon yellow, tangerine, and red. A perfect companion in your potager or border garden! 14″ht
- Nasturtium Whirlybird Mix All parts of the Nasturtium are edible! Both the leaves and blossoms offer a spicy crisp to salads and their vibrant colors add beauty as a decoration to desserts or appetizers alike. These are a favorite of honey bees so be sure to add them among your vegetables to engage your pollinators! 24″ht
- Violas Sorbet Harvest Mix These early bloomers offer the color we’ve been longing for throughout the long winter! They give a cheerful mounding splash of purple, orange, yellow and rose to enjoy in the garden or pot or even in your salad or dessert as the blooms offer a bit of edible, sweet color! 6″ht partial sun
