Yarrow is a herb that is a bit neglected nowadays. In the past salad made of yarrow leaves was one of the first salads that could be harvested and so it was in high demand. Here in Swabia it is tradition to eat a salad made of herbs collected in the meadows on Maundy Thursday. Yarrow is an indispensable ingredient of this salad. There is hardly another dish that tastes as good as this first salad of the season. In the garden yarrow is happy with almost every location as long as it is sunny or at most half shaded.

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`Cerise Queen` was one of the first selection of our native yarrow that was widely available. Yarrow is a very changeable plant, and on every large meadow you will find at least a few pink blooming yarrows. By crossing and selecting those pink yarrows a large variety of colourfull yarrows was created. Today yarraws come in a wide range of colours. `Cerise Queen` shows magenta flowers (with some white dots on the first days of the flower)

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This beautiful cultivar of the Sneezewort was created in 1912 by French horticulturist Lemoine, who is also famous for several peony hybrids. It is an extraordinary cutting flower and has a very long flowering season. The flowers can be use fresh or dried for floristic needs. Its white umbels consist of a multitude of small double or semi-double flowers, which gives the plant the impression of a huge `Baby`s Breath`. This variety is also know by the synonyms `Snowball` and `The Pearl`.

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This bubble mint matches colour and scent to a perfect union. The flowers show a merry orange and the foliage is equaly merry mint-scented. Flowers and foliage are edible and make very good infusions. The plant comes from the southwest of the USA and grows on very dry soils. In the garden it prefers a sunny and sheltered spot with sharp ...

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Most Bubble Mints bear blue or violett flowers. This one is an exception bearing apricot flowers, which makes it very special. The leafs are mint scented and very good for herbal teas. Its hardiness in Central Europe depends very much on the degree of moisture in the soil. If kept too wet during winter it will hardly survive. Shelter of rain is more important than a protection of frost. We keep our potted plants dry during winter in an unheated polytunnel where they stand even severe frost.

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Agastache became only recently wider known in Europe, but yet it bears a lot of common names: Korean Mint, Bubble Mint, Anise Hyssop and some more. Unfortunately the common names mix up the genera and you can tell from them to which genus the actual plant belongs. Since many nurseries use names made up by themselves the confusion is complete unless the correct botanical name is given, too.  `Liquorice Blue` is a plant for sonny spots in your garden. From Midsummer on it bears long blue flower spikes and makes a very good cut flower. Its large leafs bear a scent that is a mixture of mint and liquorice. You can use them fresh or dried for herbal teas.

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This is our own breed of Hollyhook, that is propagated by seed and therefore contains some variation. `Our` breed is not quite correct, for it came from an unknown lady. Some years ago we had a booth at the historic market at Schongau. One day I was handed a bag full of Hollyhook seed by a shopper and she said: these are Hollyhooks that are missing in your assortment. If was so baffled, I even didn`t ask for her name. I was also baffled by her Hollyhocks, for no matter which colour they showed, they all had sort of pearlised hue upon them. We sell seedlings that were sown the previous autumn, the will flower the same year. This limits the time for shipment. From mid spring on they are usualy too big for shipping.

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`Alpenfrauenmantel` (=Alpine Lady`s Mantle) is a name of books, in our region where it grows it is usualy called `Silbermänteli`(= Little Silver Coat). Its the smaller relative of the common Lady`s Mantle and grows on rocks and stony places that are poor in humus. Sometimes the plant is almost pressed down to the ground and forms large carpets that cover the ground with a thin web. Like all Lady`s Mantles it collects dew in its foliage. It was and is stil used for medical purposes, especialy with menstrual molinem.  

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This pure white variety of the Handsome Leek occurs rarely also in the wild. In the garden it can be used to make a planting of `normal` coloured leek more interessting.

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Allthough the handsome leek is not common in cultivation, you will find it more often in gardens than in the wild. In Germany its populations are reduced to two or three locations in the south. It is no demanding or complicated plant,  all it needs is sun and dry, gritty soil. Our stockplants are ...

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Did you expect that there are decorative varieties among chives? `Forescate` is one of those varieties. For chives it is inbelievable big, it can grow up to 60 cm high. Such a big plant bear of course bigger flowers than ordinary chives, and what beauties they are! The plant still is a herb, you can ...

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The Arkansas Bluestar is still rarely used in European Gardens, but it deserves much more attention by horticulturists. At first glance you may mistake it for the more common Amsonia ciliata, but its flowers are more narrow. The main difference however becomes obvious in autumn when its foliage turns into the most beautiful golden yellow you can imagine. For weeks it is will be THE eye-catcher in your mixed border. This plant is at home in the Ouachita Montains in Arkansas and was discovered as late as 1942.

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The foliage of the Dyer`s Chamomile is pinnate and its flowers are produced in abundance. There is hardly an other plant that provides as much summer feeling as the Dyer`s Chamomile does. This one - the wild form - bears yellow flowers that appear throughout the summer.

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The wild form of Dyer`s Chamomile has yellow flowers, but there is also a number of selections that show flowers in lighter shades of yellow or even pure white. They are hard to classify since the differences are tiny. `Alba` is probably the only really white cultivar there is. It blooms from early summer to mid summer and develops impressive clumps very fast. Visitors here often mistake for a (not hardy) Paris Daisy. Dyer`s Chamomile however is bone-hardy and much easier to cultivate than the Paris Daisy.  

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Southernwood is a culinary herb that was forgotten for a long time. Since it can`t be preserved dry (the active ingredients are too volatile) it didn`t become fashinable when spice shelfs invaded our kitchens during the 1970ies. Only recently when more people started to grow herbs in their gardens Southernwood returned to us. To me (and probably to most readers) it is still a very unknown herb. It is said to be used in mediterranean cooking, but I never found any recipe that uses it. To me it is a scented plant that I like to touch. Its scent is vitalising. Whenever I pass it in the garden, I let my hands run over the plant and enjoy the fragrance that is released. The perfect spot for this plant is as sunny and dry as possible.

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