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Will live year after year in zone 5b and maybe colder zones.

Society Garlic

Tulbaghia violacea

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Middle Summer
Common Uses:Container, Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Ornamental

As with most green varieties, this grows larger and more vigorously than its variegated cousin. 2-3" pale lavender balls appear well above foliage and as garlic tidbits over salads, but start sparingly. Excellent substitute for overused spikes as a linear texture for mixed containers. Much more winter hardy than it looks!
$ 3.79

Sorrel, Blood

Rumex sanquineus ssp. sanguineus

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to P. Shade
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, Ornamental, Water

We thought you'd enjoy its blood red veins that run throughout the emerald green leaves for a welcome contrast to all our green herbs. Please tell your garden visitors where you got it. They will ask! Flowers the second year. A tangy salad green along with ""Pepper Basil."" This has become a popular pond plant.
$ 3.79

Sorrel, Flower Free

Rumex acetosa 'Sterile'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to P. Shade
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary

All the great tasting leaves and uses as ""Garden Sorrel"", without the ""weedy"" seeds. In fact, it makes no flower stalks at all. This allows it to put all of its energy into producing an abundance of great tasting leaves. Introduced to us by Richters in Canada.
$ 3.79

St. Johnswort, Improved

Hypericum perforatum 'Topas'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Medicinal

Oh St. Johnswort! I gotta try it. What's it for anyway? a customer once asked. This particular cultivar may have the highest content of hypericin (the active ingredient) that we've found, but you need to do your own medicinal research. Summer brings small yellow flowers with smaller leaves than the landscape variety. Used medicinally as an antidepressant, antiviral, antispasmodic and wound healer. As with all herbs- use carefully.
$ 3.79

Sweet Flag

Acorus calamus

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Shade to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Wet
Soil: Organic
Common Uses:Culinary, Medicinal, Miniature/Faery Garden, Potpourri, Water

Every herb gardens need a vertical long leaf feature like this native grass which can grow into slow spreading clumps. Versatile, it can be planted by pond or in the garden. Traditionally used raw or candied for coughs, indigestion and headaches.
$ 3.79

Sweet Flag, Japanese Licorice

Acorus Gramineus 'Livorice'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Shade to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 4in.
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic
Common Uses:Culinary, Ornamental, Water

Looks exactly like the ""Acorus Gramineus"", but this variety is sweetly licorice flavored and scented. Leaves and roots are used in Asian cooking.
$ 3.79

SWEET VIOLET

One March day in 2002, Elaine Kudela walked into the back greenhouse with this tiny bouquet of heaven scented flowers. About 12 tiny violet flowers was all it took to perfume the front half of this greenhouse. After a long winter, that fragrance was just pure delight. Later we received three varieties as gifts from Elaine. Elaine owned the local herb nursery for years and was secretary of the Sweet Violet Society. Elaine was retiring from the business, just as we were starting up. We count her among the original herbalist of this region that have not only kept herbal knowledge alive throughout the years, but helped popularize these earthy plants to attract "younger couples," crazy enough to try to make a living at peddling these sometimes non-blooming plants. We honor her trail blazing efforts and know that she's in a better place now.

Sweet Violet, Purple

Viola odorata 'Koenigin Charlotte'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Shade to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 5in.
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic
Flowers: Early Spring to Early Winter to Late Fall to Late Winter
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Groundcover, Medicinal, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade

Queen Charlotte is far more heat tolerant than our previously offered ""Linane"", which it now replaces. You can nibble on and crystallize the dark purple, incredibly fragrant flowers blooming all year although they only open up in cool weather. Five inch tall rosettes of heart shaped foliage hold flowers, for picking, in very early spring and then again in early fall until a hard freeze.! These plants will not re-seed themselves to annoyance. Easy to grow and enjoy! Divide in fall.
$ 4.29

Sweet Violet, Sky Blue

Viola odorata 'Lavender'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Sun to P.Shade-Sun
Height: 5in.
Water: Normal,Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic
Flowers: Early Spring to Early Winter to Late Fall to Late Winter to Mi
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Fragrant, Groundcover, Medicinal, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade

A gift from the Wee-folk in our gardens. We didn't plant it. Lovely sky blue, fragrant flowers prevail whenever cool weather reigns. However as the temperature increases, the flowers open up pure white! We had to watch this several seasons to make sure it wasn't a mistake. Just as the skies are blue, sometimes they turn white too.
$ 4.29

Sweet Violet, White

Viola odorata 'Alba'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Shade to P.Shade-Sun
Height: 5in.
Water: Normal,Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic
Flowers: Early Spring to Early Winter to Late Fall to Late Winter to Mi
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Medicinal, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade

Sweet and as white as a late spring snow you'll find its fragrance nudges your thoughts to celestial songs. As well suited in the ""White Garden,"" as on a woodland path and, yes of course, a shady faery garden.
$ 4.29

Sweet Woodruff

Galium (Asperula) odoratum

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Shade to P.Shade-P.Sun
Height: Groundcover
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic
Flowers: Middle Spring
Common Uses:Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Groundcover, Ornamental, Shade

Freeze the sweet white May flowers that hover over dark green foliage, in ice cubes, to make ""May Wine"" during June's strawberry harvest. 3 tbsp blossoms in 1 gallon white wine impart a vanilla flavor. Add 1-2 cups fresh berries. This groundcover beat out the native violet (not to be confused with ""Sweet Violets"") and was weed-free by the 3rd spring. Essential faery garden plant. Be cautious if on ""blood thinning"" medicine.
$ 3.79

Tansy

Tanacetum vulgare

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Shade to P. Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Container, Cut Flower, Medicinal, Ornamental, Potpourri, Repellant

Tansy's smart, yellow button flower heads in tall clusters have become popular dried flowers. Place muslin bags of dried leaves in kitchen corners to repel ants and cockroaches. (Curious conversation piece indeed!) Plant in containers, (it can spread), for the same purpose.
$ 3.79

Tansy, Curly Fern-leaf

Tanacetum vulgare 'Crispum'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2-3 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Cut Flower, Ornamental, Potpourri, Repellant

Rich emerald green, "70's tuxedo ruffled" leaves make perfect additions to the foundation planting. Also wards off critters as does the species "Tansy" along with the same bright yellow, button flower heads.
$ 3.79

Tarragon, True French

Artemisia dranunculus

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary

Absolute culinary necessity! Its mild licorice flavor is found in this classic ""fines herbes"" combination and all over french cookbooks. Fresh or preserve in vinegars, ice cubes, and butters, add sparingly to white sauce, salad dressing, omelets, corn, tomatoes, and chowders. Divide every 4-5 years or when its vitality needs ""re-booting"". Grow in a tomato cage to keep upright.
$ 3.79

THYME

Common Uses:Tea

Why do we have so many thymes? When you've collected as many herbs as we have, some groups are bound to be your favorites. Each time we visit an herb specialty nursery, I head for thymes, knowing I'll probably find a completely new scent, leaf shape, growth habit or flower color. Most thymes are hardy for us, year after year because we nourish (compost at planting time and, ideally, annually), hold back on water, and we site them in a raised bed. They thrive in our 2 tiered (1 & 2 ft. high) bed with brick walls that provide the height and warmth. Pick any food, there is a thyme for it from savory to sweet. Medicinally, the active ingredient "thymol" is a strong disinfectant and antiviral component, so it's used heavily during the flu season. Ben & Joshua get thyme baths for coughs and it's an ingredient in their vapor rubs, adult "Listerine".

Thyme Tips

During the growing season, keep clipped for a neat look. It also encourages new shoots. Each spring, prune out older woody stems and winter killed branches, to stop center die back- and keep your thymes young. Good advice for all thymes.

Thyme, Caraway

Thymus herba-borona var.`Caraway'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Ornamental, , Garden Railroads, Walk About

Purple-rose flowers occur in summer on this low creeper. Pleasing but faint caraway fragrance make this thyme the choice for breads and focaccias. Prune tips to encourage branching which will help fill out this fast spreading groundcover. Can substitute for caraway seed in muffins and sauerkraut.
$ 3.79

Thyme, Clear Gold

Thymus X 'Clear Gold' (a.k.a. Yellow Transparent)

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4-6in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Ornamental, , Tea

Yellow green foliage has best color in the spring but the finest flavor in the summer. Use, fresh for just a touch of lemon in teas, fish, fruit, and vinegars. Use tender stems, leaves and flowers, abundantly, from this vigorous gold grower.
$ 3.79

Thyme, Creeping Lemon

Thymus herba-barona

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2 - 4in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Ornamental, , Garden Railroads, Walk About

Release a rich lemon scent with every step from this little creeper. Planted between stepping stones, you'll do just that. This is a type of ""Caraway Thyme"" without any hint of caraway, just pure lemons.
$ 3.79

Thyme, Doone Valley

Thymus 'Doone Valley'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3-6in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Garden Railroads, Ornamental

This thyme looks like the house painter splashed it with yellow paint. Totally random gold streaked leaves appear with a very nice lemon flavor and delicate pink blossoms. Like most thymes, color is best in spring.
$ 3.79

Thyme, E.b. Anderson

Thymus x 'E. Bertram Anderson'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Ornamental

Lilac flowers rarely occur on this dwarf, broad-leaved, mounding thyme but never mind. The bright yellow (cool-season) foliage is a brillant contrast to our red bricks in the landscape. Delicate lemon flavor allow it to be used in a white sauce, baked goodies, beans, corn and fish.
$ 3.79

Thyme, Elfin

Thymus serphyum `Elfin'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2 inch
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Bonsai, , Container, , Garden Railroads, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, , Walk About

Pink flowers adorn this truly diminutive groundcover thyme in summer. We use it as a moss substitute in bonsais. Essential to any hypertufa container or rock garden. Spreads slowly, after many years, it ends up 18"-24" wide, eventually reaching a dizzying height of 3 inches. It mounds as though there was an elf's home underneath. Compare with ""True Elfin."" Order early!
$ 3.79

Thyme, English Broadleaf

Thymus 'English Broadleaf'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 12-16in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Medicinal, , Ornamental

White flowers in summer attract many bees to make the best tasting honey. Harvest soft tips any time of year for vinegars, italian dishes, breads, focaccias & goulash. Start with 2 tbsp fresh for a large pot of spaghetti. Harvest 3-4"" long stems in September, dry on screen and use all winter.
$ 3.79

Thyme, English Mulberry Silver

Thymus 'English Wedgey'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 8-12in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Ornamental

$ 3.79

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