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Mark Kane
(Lemon Thyme)
Talk about a great culinary thyme! Bearing medium-green leaves edged and splashed with silver and cream, Silver Queen lemon thyme is an attractive and wonderfully flavorful perennial herb with a low, spreading, bushy habit. From early to midsummer it bears many small, condensed spikes of pale lilac flowers. Its tiny oval evergreen leaves smell of citrus and thyme when bruised. These can be harvested throughout the season and combine well with fish, poultry, and vegetables.
Thyme does well with...
James H. Schutte
(Garden Valerian)
The white to light pink flower rounded flower clusters of garden valerian have a musky-sweet scent when smelled from close by. The blooms of this tall herbaceous perennial are borne on sturdy, sparsely leaved, chest-high stems. Eurasian in origin, valerian was originally used as a folk herb and is still available as a dietary supplement to aid with sleep disorders, among other ailments.
Garden valerian grows from a short underground rhizome which has a musky odor that attracts cats. Its ferny...
