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Basil
A simple basil guide covering warmth, pinching, watering, and repeated harvests.
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Parsley
A slow-starting biennial herb grown as an annual, with leaves ready about three months after sowing.
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Chives
A hardy perennial onion herb that returns each spring and asks for little beyond occasional dividing.
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Cilantro
A fast cool-season herb for fresh leaves, best grown in short repeated sowings before it bolts.
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Dill
A feathery annual herb grown for fresh fronds, flower heads, and pickling seed.
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Oregano
A hardy perennial herb for sunny beds and containers, with stronger flavor in lean soil.
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Thyme
A low, woody perennial herb for hot, dry, well-drained spots and the sunny edges of beds.
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Rosemary
A woody Mediterranean perennial for hot, dry spots, grown as an annual or container plant in cold climates.
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Sage
A hardy perennial kitchen herb with gray-green leaves that handles drought and cold equally well.
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Mint
A vigorous perennial herb best grown in a container, since its runners colonize open beds.
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Fennel
A tall, anise-flavored herb grown for fronds and seed, or as a bulb vegetable under another planting schedule.
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Tarragon
A cool perennial herb prized in French cooking; buy plants, since true tarragon rarely comes true from seed.
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Lemon balm
A lemon-scented mint-family perennial for tea and pollinators, nearly indestructible once planted.
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Marjoram
A tender perennial grown as an annual, sweeter and milder than its close cousin oregano.
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Lovage
A towering hardy perennial with a concentrated celery flavor in its leaves, stems, and seeds.
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Chamomile
A cool-season annual whose small daisy flowers dry into the classic tea herb.
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Lemon verbena
A tender shrub with intensely lemon-scented leaves, grown in containers where winters freeze.
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Sorrel
A hardy perennial with lemony leaves, among the first greens ready in early spring.
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Borage
A fast annual herb with cucumber-flavored blue star flowers that bees work constantly.
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Summer savory
A slender annual herb with a peppery bite, the traditional partner for beans.
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Catnip
A hardy mint-family perennial grown for cats, tea, and clouds of small pollinator blooms.
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Lemongrass
A tropical grass grown for lemon-scented stalks, treated as an annual or container plant in cold climates.
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Garlic chives
A hardy perennial with flat, garlic-flavored leaves and white late-summer flowers bees love.
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Bay laurel
A slow evergreen tree that supplies bay leaves for years, best grown in a container in cold climates.
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Anise hyssop
A hardy mint relative with licorice-scented leaves and purple spikes that pollinators mob all summer.