Mint, Ginger

Mentha X gentilis
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Shade to Shade
Height: 5 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Yellow and green striped leaves look their best in spring but hold variegation throughout summer. Prune back annually to rejuvenate appearance. Fine fruity, spicy flavor that combines well with any fruit, salmon, and Thai cooking. It is almost too pretty to eat!
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Mint, Habek
Mentha longifolia
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Middle Summer
Common Uses: Culinary, Groundcover, Medicinal
This is one of the true Middle East varieties used for the authentic "Tabbouli" of bulgar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, plenty of parsley & mint, cool vegetables and maybe sunflower seeds. Two inch, very narrow, bluish-green leaves have a completely different look from other mints. Until we know more, dig some in the fall to overwinter indoors.
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Mint, Kentucky Colonel Spearmint

Mentha spicata`Kentucky Colonel'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Shade to Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Medicinal
This is our favorite spearmint, flavorwise. It has a truly sweet flavor added to cookies, tea, jellies, beef, lamb, peas or corn. We use it frequently during the flu season. Makes a cool rejuvenating bath too. Known possibly in the trade as "The Best
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Mint, Lime
Mentha citrata 'Lime'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Shade to Shade
Height: 2 feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary
It is easy to see how this delicious lime/citrus selection is related to "Orange Mint". It looks very similar and likes the same wet soil. Try in your next fruit salad, sweet bread recipe, or tea.
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Mint, Orange
Mentha aquatica `Citrata'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Shade to Shade
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Repellant
Bronzy green round leaves make the best Sun Tea. Refreshing citrus flavor for fruit salads, beef, and cookies. Marinate leaves or blue flowers in vinegar to eat or bathe in! Good flea and ant repellent.
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Mint, Peppermint
Mentha piperata
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Shade to Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Medicinal, , Tea
Peppermint's versatility and ease in growing make it the perfect beginner's herb. Smooth edged, shiny, dark green leaves are indespensible for teas, candies, and flavored sugar. Use dried in teas for stuffy noses, indigestion and mild headaches.
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Mint, Pineapple
Mentha suaveolens `Variegata'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Shade to Shade
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
White & green variegated leaves hold their color even in the summer heat. Try it in baskets with "Opal Basil" & "Attar of Roses" geranium. A colorful, fruity addition to cool sorbets, cole-slaw, jello, pizza, iced tea, & tuna sandwiches.
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Mint, Silver

Mentha longifolia `Capensis'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-Shade to Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary
A silver-green leaved variety that truly looks different. Good spearmint fragrance from a very aggressive grower, allows a bountiful harvest. I use this for fragrance rather than the dinner plate. Fine Moonlight garden candidate.
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Oregano, Chef’s Greek
Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-3 Feet
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary
Don't confuse this one with the purple flowered ornamental oregano. This one is for cooking. It's still a vigorous grower, which will form 3-4' clumps, so give it room to grow. Harvest frequently. Sprinkle flowers or leaves over pizza, spaghetti, heavy meats or stews, venison, and other "manly" fare.
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Oregano, Dwarf

Origanum vulgare`Nanum'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 4-8 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses: Borders, , Culinary, , Miniature/Faery Garden, , Ornamental
Bright pink-purple flowers clusters sit right on top of small glossy green leaves which form neat, small, mounding plants. Highly ornamental. Good oregano flavor from this cute dwarf is an added plus for containers, rock gardens or in front of the herb garden. Like with all oreganos, avoid overfertilizing.
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Oregano, Gold Streak
Origanum vulgare ssp. vul.'Jim's Best'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 - 4 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Leaves of gold variegated swirls, look beautiful all summer long. Delicate white-pink flowers appear early summer. Enjoy it's beauty and mild flavor in golden vinegars. At home in a rock garden, under a slightly cooler, morning sun.
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Oregano, Golden
Origanum vulgare ssp. vulgare 'Aurea'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Shade
Height: 6 to 18 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Bedding Plant, , Borders, , Culinary, , Cut Flower
Edible Flowers

Plant this gilded groundcover with purple crocus or red tulips underneath. (This saves your bulbs from being dug up by critters or yourself.) Tolerates a tremendous amount of shade and turns chartreuse by summer. In full sun, color is more golden but needs extra water. Summer flowers are white and add elegance to fresh flower arrangements or pizzaz to pizza fresh out of the oven. Mild culinary flavor for fresh salads.
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Oregano, Golden Crisp
Origanum majorana 'Aurea'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Sun
Height: 6-12 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
So cute and so hardy! Their light yellow, small crinkled leaves prefer protection from afternoon heat to retain best color. With a mild oregano flavor, it's a colorful addition to pizza or green salad. Perfect for rock gardens, containers or as a conrast with 'Purple Palace' Heuchera.
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Oregano, Herrenhausen Purple
Origanum laevigata X 'Herrenhausen'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 6 to 18 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Borders, , Cut Flower, , Groundcover, , Ornamental
Liven up your mixed herb containers with the purple-greenish leaves of this groundcover in the sprint. By summer, 18" stalks of cerise pink flowers surrounded by purple bracts, will rise up. Use these in fresh or dried flower arrangements. Plant in beds next to "Santolina, Dwarf Gray" for year round contrast. So what if it's not much on flavor.
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Oregano, Hot & Spicy
Origanum vulgare 'Hot & Spicy'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 - 3 feet
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary
We thought "Chef's Greek" had a strong flavor. This is for the person that really loves intense, strong flavors. Use, with care, in firey salsa and chile dishes.
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Oregano, Kent Beauty
Origanum rot. x scabrum 'Kent Beauty'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 2 - 4 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Loamy-Sandy Well Drained
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Jar Gem

Survived the winter of 2002 with flying colors (-18 F) and flowered all summer long. Blue-green, almost heart-shaped leaves give way to red & cream, hop-like flower heads, all summer and fall. Absolutely perfect as a trailing feature in a mixed herb pot.
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Oregano, Libanoticum

Origanum libanoticum (libonicum)
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 2-4 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Loamy-Sandy Well Drained
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Jar Gem

Very similar to "Kent Beauty" except this one has longer "hop-like cones" that are pure ivory with pink flowers poking out from underneath. The name sounds like the final exam for Limbo studies, but I assure you, it's gorgeous!
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Oregano, Variegated

Origanum vulgare ssp 'White Anniversary'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2-6 inches
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Miniature/Faery Garden, , Ornamental
Extra wide, white margins make this variety stand out as much as it's mild sweet marjoram flavor & white flowers. Obedient mounds fit into any mixed container, strawberry jar or bed edge or rock garden. Avoid harsh afternoon sun.
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Rue, Blue Mound
Ruta graveolens `Blue Mound'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy-Sandy Well Drained
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Ornamental
The dwarf mounding habit of this ancient herb makes an excellent mate with roses, in groups of 7 or more. The semi-evergreen blue foliage contrasts well with almost any perennial, especially roses & yellow conifers for a winter color display. Rue's foliage, sunlight & skin MAY result in skin rashes. Please don't eat it.
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Rue, Herb Of Grace
Ruta graveolens
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy-Sandy Well Drained
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses: Borders, Butterfly, Garden Railroads, Medicinal
Chartreuse, star shaped flower clusters, bloom all summer contrasting with blue foliage. It's strong antiseptic foliage was credited for stopping plagues and the inspiration for "clubs" on a deck of cards. Can reseed itself with abandon. Rue's foliage, sunlight and skin may result in skin rashes. Please don't eat it.
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