KaperC, I just saw them using a version of your cart on "The Tudors" on Showtime!
Breezedale sounds like where we live...there's almost always a breeze.
I went to Ireland twice for work and I loved almost every minute of it, LOL. My first trip over I forgot to take a sweater OR a raincoat. That was a big mistake.
But, I still have great memories.
take care,
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Top Ten Non-culinary Herbs
In Dublin, they refer to that statue as "the tart with the cart" -- and yes, she is pushing her cart.
I pinched MY first herbs of the season off today!! The smell of dill...sage.....oregeno. life is good, eh? =)
I read/printed Critter's thread, Pinch, Pinch, Pinch and one from Carolyn Male on how to sow tomatoes for me and my 79 yr old Aunt. Both were so helpful; easy to follow.
My aunt says she's always wanted to have a small herb garden by the back door, so I'm giving her half of my plants/seeds. She's getting more excercise and she's so excited about the whole process.
Once again, I'm thankful for this site, the people who use it. It feels like a blessing to me =)
Thanks for the reminder Nannie. I noticed the mints have flower buds forming so I better get at it.
Groovy, this thread took off and I just found it!!
Since I'm not a big cook or craftsperson, I now just love to grow herbs for their beauty and flowers, and use them for whatever, whenever. My top ten are:
1) Sage=for foliage, scent & medicinal
2) Soapwort=for foliage, flower, scent & soap suds making
3) angelica=for flowers & scent
4) Evening Primrose=for flowers & scent
5) Meadowsweet=for flowers & scent
6) Burdock=for flowers & scent
7) Silver Thyme=foliage, garden color
8) Wormwood=foliage & insect repellent
9) Amaranth "Prince's Feather" for cut, red flowers
10) Love-in-a-Mist=for summer flowers, seed pods, and insect repellent
Unfortunately, Silver Thyme isn't hardy here and I can't keep it alive after summer. I get it when I can, but it usually have to mail order from somewhere in the South. Lavender is nice, but again, it didn't make the top ten. Heh, heh. I just don't like the way it behaves in my garden. I need to read up on horticultural aspects or something. I planted some at the bottom of a bank and they look like they want to get off.
Which silver thyme Fox? This is the hardy one I know http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2729/
Is it the "hi-ho'' that you can't winter over? Thanks.
Dahlianut--
No,I think it was "Silver Posie", which was very, very silver and almost like wormwood in effect. It was lovely!!! I got it from two different places in two different years and neither of them survived, so I haven't gotten anymore lately. It seemed like a weak cultivar, but would buy it if it were readily available to replace in the Spring. I would like to try the one you mentioned next year, though. Thanks!! I already went through the ceiling on plants this year. I'm done, and I didn't get everything I wanted, either. :-(
Moonpye--scented geraniums can either be used in salads or teas or potpouri. I have Lemon Meringue also and it was recommended for potpouri and tea. I also have Clorinda, which was recommended for use in salads and porpouri, and Velvet Rose, for tea and potpouri. Not a whole lot of uses, but if you love to drink tea or just rub them in your hands and whiff them, that's good enough!! Clorinda smells like eucalyptus.
I just looked up "silver posie" and I can see why you'd keep trying it. Luvly!
Ooooh, that "silver posie" is pretty.
greetings all- this is my first post...
i have a formal herb garden in the making and i have a large tree and a hedge shading a good half of it. the soil is very rich. i am zone 6a but it has a north exposure but 18 inch high stone walls and a wind break from the hedge.
does anyone have suggestions for herbs that tolerate pretty shady areas and that the deer do not touch- for example, monkshood. big is fine. i think comfrey will also work. ideas, anyone? thanks so much. elizabeth
Elizabeth. You never know with deer, because sometimes they have to eat 7-8 plants before they decide they don't like something. But...I have found the deer here don't (usually) eat these shady herbs: Sweet woodruff, monkshood, lily of the valley, wild ginger, blue cohosh, stoneroot, trillium, violets, ajuga, turtlehead, black cohosh, goldenseal, lungwort, liverwort, twinleaf, columbine, bloodroot and solomon's seal.
Welcome mizliz ^_^