Fragrant Plants

Freesia rewards you with intensely fragrant, funnel-shaped blooms in a rainbow of colors - a favorite for cutting.Freesia Corms is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Offered in 4" and 6" pots,...

Spicy-scented, frilled blooms that overwinter in the South for color spring and fall.Garden Dianthus (pinks) form tidy mounds topped with fragrant, fringed flowers, thriving in cool weather and returning year after year in mild climates. Offered in 4" Pot and 6-Pack, shipped well-rooted from...

Gardenias produce creamy white blooms whose fragrance carries across an entire porch, set against thick, glossy evergreen leaves year-round.Gardenia is the signature fragrant shrub of the Deep South, flowering heavily in late spring with scattered rebloom through summer on many varieties. It wants acidic...

Grape Hyacinths carpet the spring garden in fragrant, grape-like blue spikes that naturalize into breathtaking drifts.Grape Hyacinth Bulbs is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Sold in pack of 10 and pack...

Hyacinths pack dense spikes of waxy, intensely fragrant blooms - perfect for spring beds or forcing indoors for winter perfume.Hyacinth Bulbs is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Sold in pack of...

Our lavender - aromatic, floral buds - are grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm.Lavender is a fragrant, sun-loving herb prized for its calming scent, silvery foliage, and pollinator-friendly purple spikes. It's beautiful fresh or dried and thrives in hot, well-drained spots. Sold fresh through...

Soft, crinkled lemon balm leaves with a gentle citrus-mint scent that is more lemon candy than sharp lemon peel, and best used raw.Lemon balm is a mint relative, so it brings a rounded, sweet citrus rather than acidity, and it will not substitute for...

Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is a lemon-scented mint-family herb.Fresh lemon balm live herb plant is an aromatic culinary herb, far more flavorful picked fresh than dried from a jar. It's easy to grow on a sunny sill and snips as you need it for...

Fine woody sprigs that smell like thyme and lemon peel at once, giving you citrus lift in a herb that actually survives long cooking.Unlike soft lemon herbs, lemon thyme holds its character through roasting and braising, which makes it far more useful in the...

Bright lemon-and-thyme perfume that seasons roast chicken, butter, and shortbread without any of the sourness of actual citrus.A low, woody, evergreen sub-shrub that holds its leaves through most Alabama winters and keeps cutting through the cold months. It resents wet feet far more than...

The most intensely lemon-scented leaf we grow, with a clean perfumed citrus that outclasses lemon balm and holds up in syrups and custards.Lemon verbena leaves are narrow, glossy, and slightly rough, and a single leaf will scent a whole cup or pitcher. It infuses...

The cleanest, loudest lemon flavor of any herb - one leaf perfumes a whole pitcher of tea, syrup, or sorbet base.Lemon verbena is a frost-tender South American shrub, so treat it as a container plant in zone 8a and move it into a garage...

Thick fresh stalks with a clean lemon-ginger fragrance in the tender white core, plus fibrous green tops that make an excellent broth.Use the bottom four inches, where the stalk is pale and swollen; smash it with the back of a knife and mince finely,...

Tender inner stalks bring true Thai citrus-ginger backbone to curries, broths, and cocktails that dried lemongrass simply cannot deliver.Lemongrass grows into a big architectural clump in one Alabama summer, then dies back hard below about 20F. In 8a, either grow it in a large...

Sweet marjoram cut in soft gray-green sprigs, floral and delicate where its cousin oregano is loud, pungent, and peppery.Marjoram is the gentler member of the family and it fades under long cooking, so add it near the end rather than at the start. Strip...

Sweeter, softer, and more floral than oregano - the finishing herb for eggs, lamb, white beans, and vinaigrettes that want warmth without bite.Sweet marjoram is a tender perennial that usually behaves as an annual or short-lived perennial in Alabama, especially through a wet winter....

Muscari sends up dense little spikes of grape-like blue blooms that naturalize into stunning rivers of spring color.Muscari Bulbs is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Offered in 4" and 6" pots,...

Cool-season colour that blooms when everything else in the bed has quit.Nemesia is the annual that earns its keep in an Alabama fall and again in early spring - dense heads of small snapdragon-like flowers on a compact mound, many of them lightly scented....

Our fresh oregano is bold, peppery, and Mediterranean, grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm and cut fresh.Fresh oregano is an aromatic culinary herb, far more flavorful picked fresh than dried from a jar. It's easy to grow on a sunny sill and snips as...

Fresh oregano is peppery and warm with a faint bitterness that holds up to long cooking better than almost any other soft herb.Refrigerate in a loose bag for up to a week, or hang a bunch to dry. Strip the leaves from the woody...