February 6, 2026 | By Sue Goetz
Herbs used for centuries for practical purposes have eventually found their way into mixed garden spaces out of necessity - to find space and to ...
July 28, 2025 | By Kim Brown
As gardeners we already know plants are amazing. They can have smells that are intoxicating, beautiful colors and patterns that mesmerize us, ...
February 12, 2024 | By Janice Cox
Yarrow is a popular perennial herb that can be found in many gardens, mine included. It is known as a powerful “healing” herb. It’s also a ...
April 17, 2023 | By Peggy Riccio
I love being able to step out into the garden and snip fresh herbs whenever I need them. Yesterday, I was making ham and bean stew in the ...
April 3, 2023 | By Maryann Readal
Chives, Allium schoenprasum, is a flowering herb in the Amaryllidaceae family. It is in the same family as leeks, onions, garlic, Chinese ...
August 8, 2022 | By Peggy Riccio
I grow fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, in my Virginia garden for many reasons. As an accent in the garden, fennel grows easily from seed to a few ...
July 4, 2022 | By Maryann Readal
Mentha x gracilis 'Madalene Hill' (double mint) is The Herb Society of America’s Herb of the Month for July. It is a fitting herb to be singled ...
December 20, 2021 | By Beth Schreibman-Gehring
I was sitting here at my desk trying to think of what I could say about the Winter Solstice that I have never said before. Then I started to ...
October 11, 2021 | By Rachel Cywinski
(This article is an abridged version originally appearing on the Native Plant Society of Texas website, November 30, 2020. Thanks to the author ...
October 7, 2021 | By Susan Belsinger
Greetings and Happy Autumn!
I am writing this on the evening of the full harvest moon—it is shining bright in the night sky just over the ...
June 14, 2021 | By Bonnie Porterfield
As you drive along State Rt. 91 in Hudson, Ohio, you pass a community park, Darrow Road Park. As long as I’ve lived in Hudson (38 years), it's ...
April 26, 2021 | By Chrissy Moore
I have always been fascinated by people’s life stories, particularly those in the herb world. How did they end up where they did? What ...
August 18, 2019 | By Jen Munson
Learn how herbs make great companion plants, aid in pest control, and support welcome beneficials.
August 14, 2019 | By Beth Schreibman - Gehring
Chairman of Education for The Western Reserve Herb Society Unit of The Herb Society of America
"Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, ...
June 20, 2018 | By Kathleen Hale
What smells like a teenage boy’s unwashed socks, is a legendary medicinal plant since the time of the Greeks, and has appeared prominently in the 1974 film version of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express?