Herbs: Show me your herb garden, 1 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
I love my sage bush because a friend who was moving out of state gave it to me. I dried some leaves from it this year in my dehydrator and hope to get some off to her soon. The sage is pictured below. My herbs are at the end of a raised bed garden. If we get another house, I think I'd put the herbs closer to the back door. Mine are just a collection of this and that. Thank goodness I never planted any mints in with my herbs. The mints would take over.

The most unusual thing I've grown has been saffron crocus. It blooms in the fall here usually after Halloween. I've gathered several threads of saffron from it. I'll probably add them to a rice dish soon.

Most of my herbs were gifts from friends and people my husband knows. I love my dill and my italian flat leaf parsley; however, the butterfly babies like to munch on them too.

We put a big pot of herbs together in the back ala Martha Stewart. The flat leaf parsley got into the rock cracks and came up everywhere. Hubby was not amused, but he let it be till the butterfly caterpillars had eaten all they wanted and moved on. The rosemary has been in that pot for several years now and made it just fine through the winter. I'm in zone 7 or 6 depending on who you talk to.