Fun & Weird Herbs For Your Garden

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Silver sage (Salvia Argentea) - A stunning drought tolerant visual & textural accent, "Silver Sage" is also quite cuddly, as its large, wavy leaves are garbed in soft downy fuzz. Forming a large low rosette to 3' across, place it right up front in your garden where everyone will be able to notice it & touch it, especially children would love to pet its fuzzy huge leaves. This plant is a must in a sensory garden.

3 ft; Silvery all over, w' white flowers & wooly silver-white leaves, stately erect plant blooms early in first summer from winter sowing.
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I Can't Feel My Tongue!
Eyeball Plant (Spilanthes Acmella) - The Spilanthes flower is mainly ornamental but the flower heads contain a great amount of an analgesic agent known as Spilanthol. This is specially used to numb toothaches and gum aches as well.

12"; Globe shaped golden flowers, with startling vermillion-red center "eyeball", rise on stiff stems above rugose, dark green foliage, sometimes splashed with purple. Adds texture & interest to containers and gardens. This plant is also known as "Toothache Plant" for its use as a folk remedy. Germ with light in 21 days at alternating night-day 68-86'F.

Have Some Candies.
White Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) - You might remember eating horehound candy, which was a brown sugar-coated lozenge with a distinctive taste. Whether used in candy or in tea, it is a home remedy for coughs and colds.

Horehound is used to make hard lozenge candies that are considered by folk medicine to aid digestion, soothe sore throats, and relieve inflammation.

A member of the Mint Family. The White Horehound flowers between June and August. It can usually be found around footpaths, wasteground and grassland. Found in South and Central Europe, north to South Sweden and South England (occasional) and Central Asia.

2 ft; Attractive plant w' crinkled downy grey-green foliage. Leaves are used for flavoring.
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This post was edited by phylis on Sat, Nov 22, 14 at 21:58