Catmint, Six Hills Giant
Nepeta x 'Six Hills Giant'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2 1/2 x 5 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Borders
This is "Creeping Catmint" on steroids! 2 1/2' mounds of sky blue flowers, make a dramatic show planted between delphiniums, foxgloves, and other spikes.
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Catnip
Nepeta cataria
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Sun to Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Bees, , Butterfly, , Culinary
Since this is the original "6-Pack of beer" for cats, protect new plantings until established. For humans, a medicinal tea is made from 2 tsps. dried catnip per 1 cup of water to aid in sleeping, colds and fevers. Flavor with honey or stevia. Remove flower heads before they mature to prevent self-sowing, unless you desire it for the entire neighborhood.
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Catnip, Lemon
Nepeta cataria `Citriodorata'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Sun to Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Bees, , Butterfly, , Culinary, , Tea
Identical to "Catnip" in appearance, but, with an additional slightly lemon fragrance. Better flavor, for humans, in teas. Some cats like it, while others could care less.
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Chamomile, Double Roman
Chamaemelum nobile `Flore Pleno'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 4 inches
Water: Dry-Normal Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Fragrant, , Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, , Tea
The vaguely "Granny Smith" apple scented foliage forms a low growing groundcover which spreads slowly. Double daisy like flowers emerge, the groundwork for an almost maintenance free herb lawn, once established. Perfect for cracks between stepping stones. It has been consistently hardy for us. Has all the same uses as regular “Roman Chamomile” but is shorter and will not re-seed everywhere.
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Chaste Tree, Cutleaf

Vitex negundo
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Borders, , Medicinal
This general purpose female herb is sheer elegance in pure blue, 5" flower spikes which devour plants in July. In northern Ohio, perennial shrub dies back to ground each winter, but grows into small 12' trees, zone 7 or warmer. Pepper-corn sized seeds have been used in the past to reduce female sexual desire (and "hot flashes") - hence the name. You choose whether you want to stand clear or attack it, but seriously, respect it's power and do your own research.
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Chives, Curly

Allium senescens var. `Glaucum'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Ornamental
Jar Gem

You have to see this quirky, miniature, curly, blue-leaved allium for yourself. It is too sweet for rock gardens or small pockets. 2" baby pink blossoms flirt with bees on top of 3-4" stalks in June or July. Should be sprinkled sparingly due to a strong onion flavor.
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Chives, Garden Jupiter
Allium schoenoprasnum 'Jupiter'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary
Mulberry Creek introduced and named this for its huge!, dark purple flowers with a large red center, that reminded us of the spot on our solar system’s 5th planet. Foliage remains upright and stately for a year long harvest. Astronomically and horticulturally - big news!
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Chives, Garden Neptune
Allium schoenoprasnum 'Neptune'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Culinary
Our Mulberry Creek “Stellar Series” introductions now include Mars, Jupiter, Solaris and this one, Neptune, which boasts large, lavender-blue, globes, that defy gravity over delicious leaves. As with many chives the flowers and leaves are “snippable” and the flavor is outa this world!
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Chives, Garden Seed-free
Allium schoenoprasum
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Culinary
Carefree, seed-free, just not free. Looks and tastes exactly like "Garden Chives", but will not form any viable seed. Wake Up! That means it will not take over the yard, while you're on vacation, if you forget to remove seed heads. It also blooms about 6 weeks longer since it's not "worried about the kids.
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Chives, Garden Solaris White
Allium schoenoprasum 'Album'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Culinary
One of Mark's "Holy Grails". We finally found seed for this White Garden Chive and selected out the best flowering seedlings from which to multiply. Great atsting "Onion Chive" flavor flowering in late spring with other Garden (Onion) Chives.
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Chives, Garden Venus
Allium schoenoprasnum 'Venus'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary

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Chives, Garlic

Allium tuberosa
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental
Imagine: pristine, tall, white, 2" globe, flower clusters in August. Also called "Flatleaf Chives" for their wider leaves; Add a mild garlic flavor, by simply sprinkling bits of flowers over chicken, Caesar salad, omelettes and bread. I mean what doesn't need a dash of garlic?
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Chocolate Flower
Berlandiera lyrata
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 12 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Borders, , Fragrant
Chocolate guaranteed: If you don’t agree that these yellow daisy flowers aren’t fragrant or smell like baking chocolate, you get your money back and keep the plant. 2-1/2” gold wildflowers rise in clustered stalks above green-blue rosettes and repeat flower the entire growing season. The scent downwind is intoxicating. Best planted in mass, 6 or more plants, to acheive this effect. Kid's garden candidate.
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Coltsfoot

Tussilago farfara
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to P.Shade-Shade
Height: 12 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic
Common Uses: Medicinal
In April, dandelion-like flowers appear before leaves emerge. Colt’s foot shaped leaves, up to 4” across, enjoy a shady, moist spot under our blue spruce. We make a strong tea, sweetened with honey, and sip it to soothe coughs. Caution, it can really take over provided the right conditions. Limit its growth with lawn edging and it obeys.
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Costmary, Bible Leaf

Tanacetum balsamita
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Medicinal
It's 6" long strap shaped leaves and mint fragrance served as a bible marker and "stimulant" during lengthy sermons. Fine hairs give a light grey look. Spreads by underground branches which bolt in June to form dandelion-like, frankly unattrative, flowers. Remove prior to flowering if you find them undesirable. Use fresh leaves sparingly in salads and soup, also dried leaves in sleep pillows.
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Curry Plant
Helichrysum italicum (angustifolia)
Cold Tolerance: Zone 10a10b6a6b7a7b8a8b9a9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6-12 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Fragrant, , Ornamental
Ornamental narrow grey leaves adorn this upright growing plant. We got it because it smells great, but it's at home as a white foliage feature in our moonlight garden. Has tiny bright yellow buds from July to September. Delightful curry scent, but don't confuse it with curry powder: a blend of cumin, turmeric, & assorted Mid-East spices. One of our retail customers just loves it to flavor vinegar.
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Echinacea, Paradox Yellow
Echinacea paradoxa var. paradoxa
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
The paradox of this "Purple Coneflower" is that it’s yellow! This refreshing early summer blooming perennial has the classic rosette plant from which emerge majestic daisy-like flowers. Has many of the same medicinal components as E. angustifolia.
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Echinacea, Pastel Pink
Echinacea pallida
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
Considered by many, to be the most medicinally active species of all the "Purple Coneflowers" and suspected to be sold in Europe as E. angustifolia. Subtler beauty than E. purpurea, with pale, pink, droopy, more narrow flowers petals, and just as potent.
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Echinacea, Purple

Echinacea purpurea
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
We chose this herb as part of our logo because of it's beauty and multiple use: the quintessential herb. 4" large, purple, daisy shaped blossoms are held upright on sturdy stems. Echinacea, is one of America's favorite medicinal herbs for the colds and flu. You can imagine my face when Mark pointed to the newly purchased Vodka saying " It's for medicinal purposes," but he wasn't kidding. He made a tincture by stuffing a canning jar with coneflower leaves and filled it with 100 proof Vodka. We placed it in the closet and shook it daily for two weeks. Tasted awful, but seemed to work for us. We use it ONLY at the onset of symptoms, or when we're exposed to "snotty" folks, then we quit taking it, whithin 3 weeks. Pick leaves before it flowers and harvest flowers in their peak. Some folks believe the roots are the most therapeutic.
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Echinacea, Tennessee
Echinacea tennesseensis
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
This Echinacea does not stop flowering. We predict that this species, which was almost dug to extinction, (and was placed on the National Endangered Species list) will become one of America's most popular flowering perennials. What a great medicinal herb too. It is similar to Echinacea angustifolia in its medicinal chemistry. Smaller flowers than other "Purple Coneflowers", but the petals on this variety turn upright and are darker purple rather than droopy and washed out.
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Elderberry, Black
Sambucus canadensis
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Shade to P. Shade
Height: 10 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
This hardy small tree is loaded with 5" white flower clusters in early summer which turn into small black tasty berries, rich in Vitamin C and used to make wine, jelly, and pies. Flowers can be used in a tea for colds, as a face wash, or battered and deep fried. Leaves can comfort minor bruises. Berries are best in pies (See our recipe) and immune building syrups, especially safe for children. The prime component of Sambucol (children's syrup) sold in health food stores.
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Elderberry, Madonna

Sambucus nigra 'Madonna'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P. Shade
Height: 10 feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Hedges/Shrubs, , Ornamental
Oddly enough, 'Madonna' exhibits a golden variegation as opposed to the white color on "Variegated Elderberry". Otherwise, it is the same. Because of its overall warm appearance, it is a welcome backdrop for wildflowers or English Cottage gardens. Native elderberries, run amuck, may have scared gardners away from their beauty. You have nothing to fear with this magnificient shrub.
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Fennel, Bronze
Foeniculum vulgare `Bronze'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Medicinal, , Tea
This beauty need not provide anything useful, but boy does it ever! Imagine fine feathery foliage with a bronze-red cast, tickling yellow hued "Queen Anne Lace"-like flowers above. Does not produce a bulb but leaves and stems are tasty, finely chopped, added to salads, fish, and soups. A tea from the leaves or seeds eases our indigestion. After seeds begin to mature, cut entire stalks. Hang them upside down in a paper bag to finish ripen, and avoid self-seeding all over the garden.
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