What herbs do you have in your garden?

[Comfreyfan]

I've been trying to grow Bergamot without any success for several years, I don't know what goes wrong, I buy a plant, put it in the garden and then watch it die - I've always wanted one of the red ones - just lovely.

I grow and use:
Bay - in cooking
Rosemary - in cooking and in shampoo
Lavenders - because they smell wonderful
Lemon Balm - makes a nice tea, in cooking and just sniffing it!
Lady's Mantle - I love the plant - but also an infusion as a bust lifter!
Borage - in Pims!
Clove pinks - so pretty with edible flowers
Comfrey - as a fertiliser, in the compost bin and for softening/repairing skin
Soapwort - to make a gentle shampoo or face wash
Chives - in potato salad - yum
Parsley - in cooking
Golden Marjoram
Thymes - in cooking
Feverfew - because it's pretty
Bronze Fennel - fennel seed tea
Sage - in cooking and in shampoo
Yarrow - in the compost bin (speeds up composting)
Tarragon - in cooking
Chamomile - infusions for skin, but also good for the compost bin
Calendula - more edible flowers
Mints - in cooking and as a tea for indigestion
Salad Burnet - infusion for sunburn
French marigolds - in the greenhouse to deter whitefly

Did I mention I love my herbs and am slightly obssessed - I think in a former life I was a very strange old lady that scared young children!

[Gryfon]

Well I think on my list to buy now is bergamot, lemon balm, borage, yarrow, lemon verbena, marsh mallow, dill, angelica, chervil, pot marigold, coriander, hyssop, sorrel, salad burnet, comfrey, feverfew, heartsease and sweet violet.

Now just need to find somewhere that sells them and somewhere to put them

[kirsty b]

This year I have:

thyme, 1 lemon and 3 common, although one is a compact variety
sage: 1 common, 1 variegated
lavenders: only 2 because I had to pull out old plants that had got relly woody and straggly. Plan to buy many more.
Chives, coming into flower, loads of buds on it.
Bronze fennel which surpisingly survived being trampled by my dogs.
Rosemary
Oregano
Marjoram
(Curled parsley - waiting for seeds to germinate)

They are all in my north facing front garden, and I have roses, various bulbs, ornamental alliums, honeysuckle. Trying to gradually plant up with perennials so I have constant round cover once plants are matured. Got a bit neglected last year and buttercup took over. Clearing and replanting is in progress. Sowed some echinacea earlier today, meant to do it a few weeks ago but couldn't find the seeds.
Got candytuft, cornflowers and sunflowers as seedlings but not ready to go out there yet, sweet peas too still to be planted out.

[coreopsis]

All 3 varieties of thyme has germinated-lots of wee seedlings so I uncovered them and waiting impatiently for them to grow bigger
No sign of another herbs though.

[Noodles]

I haven't got many at the moment:

Rosemary (of which I need more, I use tons and my 2 small bushes can't keep up!)
Thyme x 2 types
Mint (grows like flippin weeds!)
Chives
Sage
Basil x 2 varieties
Lavender
Flat leaf Coriander

I must keep an eye out for some new ones I can get going. I want a bay tree but they seem to rather expensive.

[Mchanen]

Wow what a lot of herbs people here are growing, makes me wanna get out in the garden, dig it up and plant loads
It's unfortunate i can't do anything to the garden- oh well at least i've got my little herb pot which contains chives, basil and coriander in the house (Suppose it's a start)

Hopefully something will grow in it this time!

[Newbie]

Sooo, pardon me for being a wee bit stupid - but which herbs can i grow outside in the garden & which need to be kept indoors / re-sown every year?

[Gryfon]

All of mine are outside

[Snadger]

Sooo, pardon me for being a wee bit stupid - but which herbs can i grow outside in the garden & which need to be kept indoors / re-sown every year?

Basil is a half hardy annual and needs to be sown each year. It's usually kept in a pot on the kitchen windowsill for ease of use!

[Mchanen]

I would have thought that most herbs are fine to grow outside in the garden?! I grow mine in a herb pot in the house so i can just pick the leaves off while cooking and it looks quite pretty too

[coreopsis]

Checked last night-all 3 thymes are growing nicely,celery par-cel started to sprout and lovage as well.No sign of mint yet...

[Gryfon]

My basil is coming up now No sign of my chives though

[hurricanhoney]

Chives
Parsley
Pineapple Mint
Chocolate Mint
Pepper Mint
Lemon Balm
Dill
Coriander
Rosemary
Basil - on window sill

Mostly grown for my rabbits to eat.

[Meschuee]

Angelica
Chamomile
Meadowsweet
Chives
Comfrey
Sweet Woodruff
Lemon Balm
Various mints, including water mint
Various sage
Oregano
Salad Rocket
and another Rocket
Various Thymes
Feverfew
Rosemary
Lavendar
Borage
Lovage
Marjoram
Sage
Self-Heal appears sometimes
Pulmonaria (lungwort)
Valerian officinalis
Horseradish
Veronica
Cowslip
Curry Plant
Fennel
Garlic
Nasturtium
Bay
Savory

All I can think of at present but may be more. I love just having herbs in the garden.

List of culinary herbs and spices - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Penny

[Winged one]

3 types of thyme
2 types of mint
2 types of sage
2 types of fennel
Rosemary (the same but a bush and a creeping type)
Bay
Oregano
Margoram
Chamomile
Some basil in pots indoors

I also have some others on the plot - tarragon, rosemary, margoram, fennel.

And I have seeds (which I have just not had time to sow) for more herbs - french parsley, coriander, mixed basil and chervil.