Looks similar to Salvia verticillata. Here is a link that might be useful: Salvia images

RE: Vietnamese coriander (perennial cilantro) If you can ID it I think I can provide it. I've been weeding out what I think is Rau Ram, Vietnamese cilantro all summer from my Seattle P-Patch plot. I also have another Vietnamese herb (little water lily like leaves) that is very invasive and haven't ID it yet. I've seen it eaten fresh in Vietnamese lettuce wraps on a TV program. Other P-patch gardeners say it is edible. Are you interested in Houttuynia  Chameleon Plant, aka "fish mint"? I use this in some salads. Borage seedlings are available. I have Greek (white flowered) oregano, and a I can provide cuttings from a couple of sages. I'm looking for lots of Garlic chive plants for the P-Patch Giving Garden and can always use manure!

As your plants grow, use you nose and taste-buds to help ID them. Also, research what they'll look like when mature - Google Images has a lot of herb pix, and the sites they come from have information on their mature size etc. Taller plants at the back, the rest will look good no matter how you arrange them. I rather like a herb garden to look higgledy-piggledy and untamed, which is probably just as well, because it's my experience that herbs will do best where THEY want to be, not where YOU want them. Sage can become a fair-sized shrub, so put it towards the back. It won't get as big as the rosemary, however. I have found it to be rather temperamental. A healthy basil can get quite large, too. I've had them grow to 1.5 metres or so tall, and about the same in width. It's hard to give a mature basil plant a hug, unless you have arms like a spider-monkey! Thyme can spread by layering, but is quite well-behaved - grows to about 20cm tall, but I've seen it taller. It's a short-lived perennial, and in a couple of years the 'mother' will die off, hopefully have layered several babies which can be separated from their mother and replanted. Keep an eye on the oregano if it shows a tendency to take over. Makes a nice ground-cover, though it can get to about 60cm tall. Parsley is a biennial, so it will go to see in its second year. This is not altogether a bad thing, as if you let the seeds fall, you'll get more plants the following year (or so). The seeds will not usually land where you want them! Remember, parsley doesn't like being transplanted (it has a long tap-root), which is why I said that herbs will grow where THEY want to! In short - don't try for a manicured herb garden. In the long-term, those plants will will decide for themselves what they're going to do. By all means, start out with neatness in mind, but I assure you it won't end up that way - which I reckon is a good thing, by and large.

When deer were eating my hosta, I had my husband pee in a jar in the morning and then I would pour it around the perimeter of the hosta. First thing in the morning is best - most testosterone. OK, I'm kinda grossing even myself out now. The only downside is that it doesn't last that long. And the grossness. If I have deer problem this year, I think I'm going to spring for Liquid Fence - wish that were for squirrels but I guess it's not. Might try some damp kitty litter for the squirrels. And I don't think I need to go into what made it damp. LOL.