A Tour of My Herb Gardens

Yes, I have more than one. :P And there are several scattered all over the yard in various places. So you can't exactly call those gardens. :P

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In area number one (in our back yard), the most prominent plant is the sage. I had no idea they it could get so big. I should have gotten a picture of one of the huge leaves. But I also didn't want to get too close to it at the time...the bees love it. :P I have more sage than I can ever use in my lifetime. There's another plant in an area in the front yard.

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To the left of the sage is a big Oregano plant that I've had for a few years. Right now it's more underneath the sage, though. :P Once the flowers on the sage die, I'll be cutting several of the branches. To the left of the oregano is basil (not pictured).

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Off to the right of the sage is rosemary. I really don't feel like it's truly "mine" since I have to buy a new plant every year.

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All the way to the right are several little savory plants. They're all babies right now. :) To the left of the savory is parsley, but it's currently going to seed and isn't very pretty. :P

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In the back is orange mint. A very hardy little plant. Se how these branches are growing up between some bricks? :P

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Overshadowed by the sage on the right side is marjoram. A little behind it is lemon balm (not pictured). Also in this area are several tiny dill, feverfew, and horehound plants.

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All the way on the left is chocolate mint. It smells wonderful! :)

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In a small area to the right where we just dug up a 40+ year old rose bush that died over the winter are a few of my herbs that will grow into large plants.

Thyme. It's very hard to get a good-looking picture of this one. :P

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Lavender. This plant is 3 or 4 years old. It's slowly getting bigger. I also have English Lavender in an area at the front of the house. It's new this year.

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Russian Sage. Probably my most prized plant. I love it! It gets tiny pale purple flowers on it later in the summer.

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To the right of that one is another area...

Chamomile. One of the easiest to harvest from. :)

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Parsley. We use lots of it, mostly in salads.

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More oregano, taken from the plant in area one.

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Watercress. Great in salads. It tastes kinda like radishes.

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Also in the back yard is tons of mint in several places.

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And chives in two places. Mom likes it in the garden to attract the bees.

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In the front I have a small area with rocks around it. One of my huge sage plants is there, as well as one of my stevia plants (I couldn't get a good picture of that yet). I also have a big ground cover between all of the plants that has pretty purple flowers on it in the early spring. Also there are:

Germander. It has tiny purple flowers later in the season. Notice that the majority of herbs have purple flowers...:P

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My biggest marjoram plant. Marjoram's an odd one...it's flowers are white. :)

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Lemon Balm. My biggest (the sage here doesn't get in it's way). It has a sweet lemon taste and scent.

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Feverfew. It's flowers are like a bigger version of chamomile flowers.

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Others that I have that I don't have pictures of yet are catnip, basil, dill, horehound, tarragon, yarrow, coriander (aka, cilantro), aloe, and stevia. Hopefully my lemon verbena, lemon thyme, and tri-color sage will revive. They don't look too promising, though. :(

I can post pictures of flowers as they bloom. :)

What we do when it's nice outside...

We've had a couple of nice days in a row here weather-wise. The humidity level finally came down today. :) I began re-staining our front porch today. I got about 1/3 of it done. I'll probably end up going back out tomorrow evening, and Thursday evening to finish it. This will be the 3rd time we've had to stain it since we built it 8 years ago. I'll bet that was a very interesting tidbit for you all to read, LOL. :P

Yesterday morning we went out and got some very-much-needed weeding done. Ahnnah came across a little ring-necked snake. We have lots of them here.

Even more exciting news: My Hollyhocks are blooming! Two different colours of pink ones have opened so far. I know I have some purple ones planted too. I love my Hollyhocks. They're so pretty. :D

And check out this awesome sunset from a few nights ago!

We have a kingdom of ants in our yard. See all of the brown...those are all ant hills. It's probably a good two feet wide and 4 feet long.

There's also a birds' nest on our patio. The same birds come back to it every year. There are baby birds in it now. I'm working on getting a picture of them. it's so high up that you can't see them from the ground. But I did get a picture of the mother bird when she flew into a nearby tree. :)

We also had a turtle decide to cut through our garden a few days ago...

I guess that's all for now. :) Oh, btw, if you click on these pictures, you can see bigger versions of them. ;)

Wow, It's Been A While...

Sorry for my long absence...
'Tis my tendency to procrastinate that is to blame, though I'll try to blame it on the fact that I wanted to have pictures to post, and I haven't taken very many lately! :o I know, it's unbelievable...:P

Anyway, I do have plenty of pictures of the flowers that are blooming around here (I'm so exited that Spring is finally here, and everything is blooming!), so I can post those. :D Enjoy!