Herbs

While some varieties have a faint scent resembling lemon, here is a lemon catnip that truly smells of lemons. What a wonderful way to sip tea before bedtime to help you sleep!

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 14 -16"

• Width: 14 -16"

Zone: 

Chocolate mint plants (Mentha x piperita 'Chocolate') are attractive, fragrant and easy to grow. As with most square-stemmed members of the mint family, growing chocolate mint can take over the area in which it is planted in the ground, readily and quickly making it ideal for ground cover or for containers.

Suggestions: Mint has a tendency to overpower the garden if not kept in check. Cut the bottom from a container, place the container in a hole in the garden, fill with soil and plant the mint inside the container.

Light Requirement: Full Sun or Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"

• Width: 12 - 24"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed

Sorrel is a leafy green vegetable grown for its pleasantly tart, lemony flavor. The plants have smooth to crinkled, arrow-shaped leaves that grow from a center. The plant will send up a tall flower stalk as the temperature warms, but it's best to remove this to promote leaf growth for a better harvest. Sorrel has multiple uses in the kitchen  from soups to stews.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 24"

• Width: 12 - 18"

Smells like pineapple, tastes like mint! Perfect for garnishing desserts and drinks.

Light Requirement: Full Sun or Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"

• Width: 12 - 24"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed

Water plants regularly, especially those in pots, in periods of drought over summer. Chamomile can become leggy unless it is clipped regularly during the growing season to ensure growth remains compact, dense and bushy.

Photos and Data Courtesy of Stokes Seeds

Apple-scented leaves and pinkish-white flowers in Summer.
Perfect for fruit salads and garnishing drinks. Slightly fruity scent and taste are perfect for fruit salads and garnishing drinks.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 36"

• Width: 12 - 24"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed

Sweet Pear mint is known for is lovely light pear fragrance. It is an upright variety, free of runners and will fit perfectly in combination planting with other herbs.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 16 - 24"

• Width: 24"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Jefferies

Culinary or medicinal herb.Fresh borage has a cucumber taste and has historically been used for its many medicinal properties.

In many gardens, borage and sunflowers share the honour of being bee hot-spots. It's not only a favourite plant of the honey bees, but also bumble bees and small, native bees. (also known as starflower, bee bush, bee bread, and bugloss)

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed