I haven’t been in the blog-sphere for the last few days because I’ve been busy buying out the nurseries and finishing up Hildegard. Curious to know what herbs I bought? Hildegard here is sitting among oregano, rosemary (lots), tarragon, thyme, chamomile, sage, marjoram, lavender (lots), parsley, basil, echinacea, and yarrow. Shoo, that’s a lot of herbs. Then my friend Stephanie (Ordinary Life Magic) mentioned that she bought lemon verbena and I’m horrified that I didn’t find any this weekend. It’s one of our favorites too and darn it my calendula didn’t reseed as well as last year so I am lacking calendula……will have to make a trip out of town to pick up those two (oh, and comfrey as well, so that’s 3 and knowing me there will be more)!
Here are some more pics of my garden, you will discover quickly that my favorite plant colors are purple and green with white here and there!
I love a cat mint border (not cat nip, but cat mint, there is a difference). This is Araina’s favorite plant to suck nectar from; it’s even better than honeysuckle! We love this plant for the spring purple color it provides, but it can take over a garden and must be divided by the third year. It does transplant easily though and most of the cat mint I now have are transplants from our first house that Dave and I bought together.
I leave a wild patch for the red clover to go crazy. Red clover is so medicinal as a tea and a salve or infused in an oil for your skin.
A last pic of Hildegard hiding under the lavender and munching on a chive blossom. She is an herbal hedgehog that takes after her namesake (Hildegard Von Bingen).
Am I missing any good herbs? I don’t include cilantro in my herb garden because I am one of those people that really don’t like the taste, the little ladies don’t seem to care for it as well. Oh, I love this time of year and planting the garden hoping for a great harvest of goodies!
“That’s all.”
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