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Angelica
Angelica archangelica
Grow from seed.
Stems raw or in salads; leaves in soups and stews; teas; crafts; closely resembles poisonous water hemlock.
Anise hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
Grow from seed or division.
Attracts bees; edible flowers; leaves for flavoring or teas; crafts; seeds used in cookies, cakes, and muffins.
Artemisia
Artemisia spp.
Division.
Wreaths and other crafts; aromatic foliage.
Bee balm
Monarda didyma
Grow from seed or division; invasive rhizomes.
Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds; teas; flavors jellies, soups, stews, and fruit salads; edible flowers; dried flowers in crafts.
Burnet, salad
Poterium sanguisorba
Grow from seed or division.
Cucumber-flavored leaves used in salads, vinegar, butter, cottage cheese, and cream cheese; garnish.
Clary sage
Salvia sclarea
Grow from seed; biennial.
Leaves in omelets, fritters, and stews; flavoring of beers and wines; oil.
Chamomile
Chamaemelum nobile
Grow from seed, division, or stem cuttings.
Dried flowers for tea; potpourris; herb pillows.
Catnip
Neptea cataria
Teas; fragrance for cats.
Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
Grow from seed or division.
Edible flowers; leaves for flavoring, eggs, soups, salads, butter, cheese, dips, spreads, etc.
Comfrey
Symphythum officinale
Grow from seed, cuttings, root division.
Safety of ingestion is highly questionable. Large, rambling plant; dyes, cosmetics.
Costmary
Chrysanthemum balsamita
Division.
Garnish; fragrance.
Echinacea
Echinacea angustifolia
Grow from seed or crown division.
Ornamental plant; used medicinally.
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Grow from seeds, difficult to transplant. Entire plant edible; seeds in sausage and baked goods; leaves used with fish, vegetables, cheese spreads, and soups.
Feverfew
Tanacetum parthenium
Grow from seed or division.
Tea, crafts, dyes.
Geranium, scented
Pelargonium spp.
Grow from stem cuttings.
Teas, potpourris, sachets, jellies, vinegars, desserts.
Germander
Teucrium chamaedrys
Slow to germinate from seed. Stem cuttings, layering, division.
Attracts bees, decorative plant.
Horehound
Marrubium vulgare
Grow from seed, cuttings, or division.
Attracts bees; tea; flavoring in candy, crafts.
Hyssop
Hyssopus officinalis
Grow from seed, stem cuttings, or division.
Attracts bees and butterflies; mostly decorative usage, potpourris.
Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
Grow from seed or stem cuttings.
Potpourris; herb pillows; crafts, vinegars and jellies.
Lemon balm
Melissa officinalis
Grow from seed, stem cuttings, or division.
Teas; flavors soups, stew, fish, poultry, vegetables, and meat dishes; garnish; potpourris.
Lemon verbena
Aloysia triphylla
Grow from stem cuttings.
Potpourris; herb pillows; lemon flavoring for drinks, salads, and jellies; teas.
Lovage
Levisticum officinale
Sow seeds late summer; division.
Seeds in breads, butters, and cakes; teas; leaves in soup, stew, cheese, cookies, and chicken dishes; root edible.
Marjoram
Majorana hortensis
Grow from stem cuttings, division, or seed. Flavoring for meats, salads, omelets, vinegars; jellies; teas; flower head for crafts.
Oregano
Origanum vulgare and
O. vulgare subsp. hirtum
Grow from cuttings or division.
Flavoring for tomato dishes, meat, poultry and pork stuffings; vegetables and sauces, etc.
Peppermint
Mentha x piperita
Cuttings and division recommended; invasive rhizomes.
Teas, fragrance.
Rosemary
Rosemarinus officinalis
Seeds slow to germinate; use stem cuttings, layering, or division.
Teas; flavoring for vinegar, jam, bread, butters, stuffing, vegetables, stew, and meat dishes.
Rue
Ruta graveolens
Grow from seed, stem cuttings, or division.
Decorative plant.
Sage
Salvia officinalis
Grows slowly from seed; stem cuttings, division, layering.
Seasoning for meat, vegetable and egg dishes; stuffings.
Sage, pineapple
Salvia elegans
Stem cuttings.
Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies; teas; potpourri; cream cheese; jams, jellies.
Santolina
Santolina chamaecyparissus
needs good drainage. Slow to germinate from seeds. Stem cuttings, layering, or division.
Dried arrangements and potpourris; accent plant.
Sorrel
Rumex spp.
Grow from seed.
Flavoring of soups, butters, omelets; some species of sorrel are toxic.
Southernwood
Artemisia abrotanum
well drained soil Stem cuttings, division.
Teas; sachets; potpourris.
Spearmint
Mentha spicata
Cuttings or division recommended; invasive rhizomes. Teas; flavors sauces, jellies, and vinegars; leaves in fruit salad, peas, etc.
Sweet marjoram
Origanum majorana
Grow from seed, division, or cuttings.
Flavors tomato sauces, eggs, etc. Leaves in salads, sauces, pizza, and meats.
Sweet rocket
Hesperis matronalis
Grow from seed.
Salads.
Sweet woodruff
Galium odoratum
Division.
Tea; sachets, dyes.
Tansy
Tanacetum vulgare
Grow from seed or division.
Toxic oil in leaves; decorative plant; crafts.
Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
Division or root cuttings, stem cuttings are slow to root .
Sauces, salads, soups, omelets, meat, vegetable, and fish dishes.
Thyme, common
Thymus vulgaris
Cuttings, seeds, or division.
Teas; attracts bees; sachets; potpourris; flavoring for poultry, fish, stews, soups, tomatoes, cheese, eggs, and rice.
Valerian
Valeriana officinalis
Division is recommended over seeding.
Roots for flavoring; ornamental plant.
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Seeds or division.
Crafts.
Winter savory
Satureja montana
Grow in light, sandy soil from cuttings or seed; cut out dead wood.
Leaves used to flavor meat, fish, salads, soup, stew, and sausage.
Wormwood
Artemisia absinthium
Seed germinate slowly; use stem cuttings or division. Bitter flavor; toxic if consumed in large quantity; ornamental plant, dried arrangements; insect repellent.