Herbs!

[Leigh33ca]

What herbs do you have in your gardens? Are they for show or for culinary use?

[Leigh33ca]

Last year I planted dill, chives, thyme, sweet basil, and parsley.

I actually froze all mine for use in the kitchen.

Hoping to add: Oregano, Rosemary, Other basils, and Lavendar and a few more for kitchen use. And hope to dry them for a change.

I am thinking of adding some shade loving herbs for my flower beds at home for decoration and perhaps cooking!

[otheila]

I have planted: oregano, basil, mint, chocolate mint, pinapple sage, blue sage, mallow,lemon balm, parsley, catmint, St. John's wart,chives, garlic chives, thyme, lavender, soap wart ( great to make hm laundry detergent), summer savory, margoram and yarrow.
Most do very well outside others I have for inside only. I enjoy my herbs hope to add more this year

[Leigh33ca]

Just bought a bunch of new ones this weekend. The weather has been so nice, I'm itching to get into my gardens! Some of the herbs I bought, I bought cause they look nice and I may try them.

They are:

SUMMER SAVORY
ROSEMARY
BORAGE
SAGE
THAI BASIL
ORNAMENTAL BASIL - SWEET DANI
ORNAMENTAL BASIL - PURPLE RUFFLES
OREGANO

Hoping to add Lavendar and a few others.

[Crafty Amanda]

I still haven't decided what herbs to plant this year. I will definitely plant basil, oregano, and thyme. But haven't decided what else yet. I REALLY want to do a butterfly garden but am afraid I'll be jumping into too much and get in over my head

[cardinalclimber]

Hello everyone! I am getting spring fever just thinking about my herb garden.. I grow close to fifty different herbs, some being culinary and some medicinal. I am learning to make my own salves and medicinal teas. A short list of the ones I grow: Cinnamon basil, lemon basil, lime basil, camphor basil, opal basil, sweet basil, lemon balm, lemon mint, lime mint, banana mint, orange mint, chocolate mint, spearimint, peppermint, feverfew, calendula, dill, motherwort, soapwort, oregano, sage, chives, lady's mantle, tansy, yarrow, pineapple sage, applemint, rose scented geranium, marshmallow, stinging nettle, euclyptus, .......I use alot of my herbs in bath products and cosmetics.
Most of my herbs grow outside in the garden with a few having to be inside during the winter months. Can't wait until spring!
Happy gardening!

Sherry

[otheila]

Originally posted by FamilyCorner
I REALLY want to do a butterfly garden but am afraid I'll be jumping into too much and get in over my head

They are beutiful. I helped mom put one in 2 yrs ago. She even wanted it in the shape of a butterfly. We did it in all perenials so she doesn't have to keep planting it every year. If you do put one in remember to put in a ' butterfly bath' a shallow container with muddy water in it. I don't know why it has to be muddy but it does. They're no different then any other garden you put in only the flowers are all what butterflies like. Fairly simple.
After doing Mom's theme garden I made a moon garden for me. All white/silver flowers/ foliage, the neat thing is they bloom in the evening or at night. So it looks like you have a moon reflection in your grass. I think I will do that one again this year. I really liked it, something different.

[seleach]

I grow lemon balm, oregano, thyme, spearmint. Also chives and garlic chives. May plant a few more this year.

[ziggee]

At the moment we are growing Mint, Lavender and Aloe Vera. I love the smell of Mint and I growing it as a ground cover for part of my yard. I also like to cut it and use in the bath because I love the smell of it. Lavender I think is a great plant that I also love the smell of. I take off some of the stems and just inhale the scent. I know Aloe Vera is not an herb, but we have used it in the past when my dh got a sunburn.

Zig

[Bilby]

At the moment I have the always parsley and shallots, then I have rosemary, basil oregano and rotate between lettuce and tomatoes.
Depends on how my soil and garden are going.