Herb Plants

Fresh-cut bay carries a bright, resinous, almost eucalyptus edge that the dusty dried leaves in a supermarket jar lost long ago.Fresh bay is considerably stronger than dried, so start with about half the number of leaves a recipe calls for and adjust upward. Bay...

Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis) is an evergreen shrub whose leaves flavor soups and stews.Fresh bay laurel 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...

Potent fresh-cut catnip with a minty, faintly bitter aroma that sends most cats sideways and steeps into a mild, grassy tea.This is first and foremost a cat product: a fresh bunch is far more aromatic than a bagged dried toy filler, and cats respond...

Catnip (Nepeta cataria) is an easy-growing mint-family herb that cats adore.Fresh catnip 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...

Our fresh chives is delicate and mild with a gentle onion flavor, grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm and cut fresh.Fresh chives is an aromatic culinary herb, far more flavorful picked fresh than dried from a jar. It's easy to grow on a sunny...

Slim green chive blades with a clean, delicate onion snap that stays bright and grassy instead of turning harsh the way raw onion does.Chives give you allium flavor without the sulfurous bite, which is why they finish dishes rather than build them. Heat destroys...

Our fresh cilantro (slow bolt) is bright and fresh, a slow-bolt variety bred to last longer, grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm and cut fresh.Fresh cilantro is an aromatic culinary herb, far more flavorful picked fresh than dried from a jar. It's easy to...

Bright, soapy-citrus cilantro cut young and tender, before Alabama heat pushes it to bolt and turn thin and bitter in the field.Cilantro is a cool-season crop here, so the best bunches come out of fall, winter, and early spring beds rather than midsummer. Both...

Our fresh dill is bright and feathery with a fresh, grassy tang, grown at our Lineville, Alabama farm and cut fresh.Fresh dill is an aromatic culinary herb, far more flavorful picked fresh than dried from a jar. It's easy to grow on a sunny...

Feathery dill fronds with a sweet anise-and-cucumber perfume that hits hardest in the first day or two after cutting, then fades fast.Dill is one of the most fragile culinary herbs, which is exactly why a local cut beats a boxed one that crossed the...

Lacy fennel fronds cut for the kitchen, sweet with clean licorice and a cool green freshness that dried fennel seed cannot reach.These are the aromatic tops, not bulbing fennel, so expect fine feathery foliage and tender green stems rather than a white bulb. The...

Feathery fronds and crisp anise-sweet stems that lift roasted fish, pork sausage, and citrus salads from spring straight through fall.This is herb fennel, grown for its fronds, pollen, and seed rather than the fat bulb of Florence fennel. It is a strong perennial across...

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...