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...

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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 ...

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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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Aniseed is not everybodys cup of tea. Some love it, some disgust it. There seems to be nobody neutral regarding aniseed. If you like the taste of aniseed this here is the perfect plant for you to use for infusions. Leaves and flowers are intensively scented of aniseed and the taste ...

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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...

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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...

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This Hollyhock was developed by the British seed company Thompson & Morgan. It bears a multitude of flowers from summer on till beginning of autumn. The flowers are of a dark pink with yellow eyes. The special thing about this variety ist the fact that its flowers can be single, semi double or fully double.

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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...

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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...

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This the common Lady`s Mantle that is to be found on meadows. In gardens it is a very good alternative to Alchemilla mollis if a less vigorous plant is needed.

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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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When I heard where this Bluestar comes from, I didn`t give it the slightest change to survive in our nursery. It`s home are the south-east of the US from Florida to North-Carolina and west to Texas. The Fringed Bluestar did teach me better, for it is bone-hardy - on condition that it`s...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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