This annual herb has a peppery bite and is know to add a savory flavor to low sodium dishes.

(Salvia Officinalis) A hardy evergreen shrub with beautiful green almost blue foliage. Sage has a warm woody, intensely fresh aroma, and is often used in traditional medicine.

Flat leaf Italian Parsley is rich in Iron and vitamins. It has a bright, peppery, herbaceous, and slightly bitter taste. Parsley is a biennial plant. This means it lives two years. In it’s first year it produces foliage, and in it’s second year it blooms, produces seeds, and dies.

(Origanum Vulgare) A hardy Perennial herb that likes to be harvested often, and a staple in the kitchen.

Loved for it’s sweet balsam essence, Marjoram is a must in the herb garden. It is a cold sensitive perennial herb, so this is a great option for containers or pots you bring in over winter.

Hardy perennial coneflowers. Generally they bloom first their second year, but fret not, you’ll have flowers for years to come. Definitely worth the investment.

An annual that produces small white or pink flowers. It has an earthy, nutty, slightly bitter flavor. The dried seed-like fruits are commonly harvested after the plant has turned yellow or brown. The plants are hung to dry and threshed to release the aromatic fruits.

(Coriandrum Sativum) This annual herb is nutrient dense, antioxidant packed, and has a nutty citrus-like flavor. It thrives in cooler weather and prefers around 6 hours of sun, and shade in the afternoon. Cut regularly for bushy growth. If you allow Cilantro to flower, you can enjoy the blooms and the seeds, but it will stop producing tender leaves. Water deeply once or twice a week, or when top inch of soil is dry.

A perennial with a mild onion flavor, and hollow grass-like leaves that grow in bunches with edible purple blooms.

A delicate fern like herb in the parsley family. It has a mild anise like flavor.

(Matricaria Chamomilla) or German chamomile, with its showy daisy-like flowers, is a fast growing, sun loving, and drought tolerant herb, with powerful anti inflammatory properties.

A versatile, nutrient dense herb, that every garden needs. It is antimicrobial, aids digestion, and taste delicious while doing so. Sweet basil thrives in full sun, well draining soil. Keep the soil consistently moist (like a wrung-out sponge) but not waterlogged, and regularly pinch off the top leaves to encourage bushy, vigorous growth.