Favorite herb

[sabrinamari]

Mint is my favorite herb. It's peppy, cheery, tastes good, smells good, loves water and cannot be killed by the toughest New Jersey winter. It just keeps springing back, refusing to be tramped down in its cheery, happy way.

Lemon verbena balm is lovely that way, too. Oh---it's a mint!

It also makes tummies feel better.

Comments

[showingup.livejournal.com]

Spearmint! Wild garlic! Oh, and sage! What do you mean, what have the Romans ever done for us?

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Giggling...

[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

You must like my Trinity Oil, since its two most aromatic ingredients are peppermint and lemon verbena.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I do!

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

I love mint. You can just sort of wave your hands at a bare patch of ground and say "mint" and it starts growing.

But it's lemon balm that's a mint, not lemon verbena...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_officinalis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysia_citrodora

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

You are so right. Lemon balm it is. I love verbena, too, but it's my lemon balm that has sprung back.

And that's the other thing I love about mint: it flourishes in inhospitable places. My role model is a plant.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

My role model is a plant.

LOL. Why not?

There is lemon balm all over the back yard. I love how it smells...