
April 6, 2026 | By Maryann Readal
Few herbs capture attention quite like the chile pepper. Vibrant, fiery, and surprisingly diverse, Capsicum annuum includes thousands of peppers ...

February 2, 2026 | By Maryan Readal
This sunny, late-blooming, garden and culinary herb is The Herb Society’s spotlight herb this month—Mexican tarragon, Tagetes lucida. It is ...

January 26, 2026 | By Ellen Zachos
When most people hear the word “herb” today, they think of flavorful additions to cooking or natural medicines. In ancient Greece, herbs were ...

January 5, 2026 | By Maryann Readal
Introduction
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is an ancient and remarkably versatile spice whose vivid color, distinctive flavor, and long history of ...

December 16, 2025 | By Beth Schreibman Gehring
Interestingly enough, I found myself gazing at an adorable little mushroom-covered tree skirt in November, of all months. Not even a jingle bell ...

November 17, 2025 | By Erin Holden
Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum) is a deciduous shrub in the Solanaceae family with arching branches that can reach 10 feet in height. It produces ...

October 27, 2025 | By Beth Schreibman Gehring
Honoring the Herbs, Flavors, and Fires of the Season
“The scent of rosemary, the smoke of sage, the whisper of bay — the old language of the ...

September 15, 2025 | By Beth Schreibman Gehring
The autumnal equinox, which falls on September the 22nd, is a spoke in the wheel of the year — the brief pause when day and night are perfectly ...

July 14, 2025 | By Carly Amarant
The word conjures a variety of meanings for different people. Does it refer to superstitions? Do you see an image of a witch riding on a ...

April 21, 2025 | By Carol Michel
The simple answer is they are the authors of old, often-forgotten gardening books and articles written mostly in the 19th and 20th centuries. I ...

February 19, 2025 | By Greg Susla
The question often comes up regarding how people knew which plants had medicinal value and what conditions they could be used to treat. It’s ...

February 17, 2025 | By Samantha Bellman
The monotonous grays of winter begin to break as February approaches. Just like the groundhog reminds us that winter is coming to an end, so ...

September 2, 2024 | By Maryann Readal
Garlic, Allium sativum, is The Herb Society’s Herb of the Month for September. This is the time to get excited about garlic if you want to grow ...

July 1, 2024 | By Maryann Readal
The Herb Society’s Herb of the Month for July is savory, Satureja spp. Summer savory, Satureja hortensis, is the annual version of this herb, ...

May 20, 2024 | By Henry Flowers
In continuing with our look at Latin used in botanical names (click here for our previous post), here are some words that are used to describe ...

May 13, 2024 | By Beth Schreibman Gehring
“White coral bells upon a slender stalk,
Lilies of the valley dress my garden walk.
Oh, don’t you wish that you could hear them ...

January 8, 2024 | By Dr. Frederick Meyer (deceased) and Jo Sellers
(Editor’s Note: The complete article was originally published in The Herb Society of America’s The Herbarist, 1999.)
In 1967, the Potomac Unit ...

August 28, 2023 | By Cat Gavin and Chrissy Moore
When European explorers arrived in the Americas, they were greeted by Native Peoples with a beverage that existed nowhere else in the world – ...