Aromatic leaves with a spicy clove fragrance and flavor are outstanding for tomato sauce, pesto, salad, and meat dishes. Use fresh or dried. White flowers are attractive in the herb garden, but are usually pinched off as buds form to promote high-quality leaves for cooking.
Beautiful flowers and foliage have a distinctive mild onion flavor fresh or dried. Fresh leaves add zest to soups, salads, eggs or sour cream or use whole blossoms for a novel herb vinegar. Attractive in the herb or cutting garden and a good companion plant for roses.
This Cuban variety was impossible to get in America for a time, but is now being imported. To make a true Mojito you need true ‘Mojito’ mint. Mints are vigorous spreaders and should be contained; plant in containers sunk into the ground.
Fragrant flavorful leaves are excellent for seasoning and as a garnish. A complementary flavor that enhances most dishes, especially sauces, salads, meats and vegetables. Dries well. Tasty leaves are rich in vitamin C. A biennial grown as an annual; replant each year for best flavor.
Intensely fragrant leaves have a distinctive flavor. Great seasoning for meat or vegetable dishes, or use dried for crafts. Attractive in the garden and containers. May be wintered indoors in pots; needs high humidity. An especially hardy variety.
Very popular, attractive herb, with exceptionally flavorful leaves. Excellent for flavoring a variety of dishes.
Fragrant dark green foliage with a classic thyme flavor seasoning and aroma. Outstanding for poultry, fish and pork, in sauces, soups and herbal vinegar. Good companion plant for tomatoes. Use fresh or dried. Dry or freeze leaves for winter use, or grow in a pot indoors.
