Featured Plants & Herbs

English Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is the gold standard for lavender cultivation. Native to the Mediterranean mountains, this variety has been bred for centuries for its superior fragrance, cold hardiness, and culinary quality.

Unlike other lavender species, English Lavender produces sweet-scented oils with low camphor content, making it ideal for cooking, baking, and high-quality essential oil production. It’s the variety professional growers choose for commercial lavender farms.

Why growers love it: Reliable cold tolerance (survives -20°F with snow cover), compact growth habit, prolific blooming, and the sweetest fragrance of all lavenders. It’s the variety that built the lavender industry.

Distinguished by its unique serrated leaves and showy pineapple-shaped flower heads topped with colorful bracts. Blooms nearly year-round in warm climates and brings exceptional visual interest to gardens. More heat-tolerant than English varieties.

Striking ornamental variety with distinctive “rabbit ear” bracts perched atop dense flower heads. Native to Mediterranean regions, it thrives in hot, dry climates and poor soils. Highly decorative with a strong camphor-like scent.

Aromatic evergreen herb with needle-like leaves and delicate blue flowers. An essential culinary herb and ornamental plant, rosemary thrives in Mediterranean-style gardens. Its woody stems and upright growth make it perfect for hedges and topiaries.

Classic culinary and medicinal herb with soft, velvety gray-green leaves and spikes of purple-blue flowers. A staple in herb gardens for centuries, sage is valued for its robust flavor, ornamental appeal, and traditional healing properties.

Low-growing aromatic herb with tiny leaves and delicate pink or white flowers. Perfect for ground covers, rock gardens, and culinary use. Multiple varieties offer different flavors and growth habits.

Robust perennial herb with pungent flavor essential to Mediterranean cuisine. Forms spreading clumps with purple-pink flowers that attract pollinators. Hardy and vigorous grower that can spread enthusiastically.