I grow the usual suspects: several basils, oreganos, thymes, silver & purple sage, rosemary (wont winter over here), dill, cilantro, chives and parsley. One thing that has really wowed me this year is how flavorful the parsley is and how pretty and lush a plant it is. There's also lemon grass, lemon balm and a pretty lemon verbena.
I stuck one horseradish plant in a couple of years ago and even after harvestin what I thought was all of it last fall, I now have SEVEN new horseradish plants as well as a freezer full of horseradish sauce. It's a beautiful plant though, and it provides a home and sustenance for a pair of the emerald colored grasshoppers-they've been hanging out there for about 6 weeks!
On the wild and wooly side, there's a beautiful wormwood plant-we tried making some absinthe, but the results tasted horrible! One of my favorites is anise hyssop with beautiful purple bottle brush flowers that the bees go crazy for!
Next year I hope to procure an angelica plant so I can try to candy some stalks-I just love the flavor of those.
The herb garden is kind of a crazy looking with fuzzy plants growing in every direction, but I like it. It keeps the dogs smelling good as they run through it all the time, but it survives the abuse just fine. |