Sorry, messed up and didn't put the pic in!

This post was edited by garden_love on Sun, Mar 31, 13 at 23:02

Lavender

You should have let your nose do the identifying on this one, lol.

I would have but its so close to the ground and the ground was wet. Didn't really want to get down there and sniff it!

Wait until you've been gardening a while. Grovelling about in the wet is par for the course. You'll find you're actually enjoying it pretty soon ;-)

was just talking to bro about his..

take a long branch in your hand.. and trace it down into the plant.. you WILL SEE.. buds way down in there .. so the 12 to 18 inch old branch.. can be cut down to those.. and after you have done a dozen.. you will understand ... that the whole thing can be sheared down to 4 to 6 inches.. to rejuvenate it ...

use these as dried flowers.. or take off leaves.. and sew them into sachets.. for a drawer.. or just get rid of them...

and i seem to think.. the french use it in chicken spices.. of which i cant recall the name of...

ken

I think that you might be talking about Herbes de Provence, Ken. I just unpacked a jar of it in the shipment from Penzey's I get this afternoon! Not just for chicken. :-)