As plants of all of these species can be picked up cheaply at any specialist herb nursery online, once you have tracked down a source of one you will only be a couple of clicks away from getting the whole hat-trick.
For rarer plants, some specialists are Merry Gardens, Box 595, Camden, Me. 04843-0595; The Sandy Mush Herb Nursery, 316 Surrett Cove Road, Leicester, N.C.
For example, the Sandy Mush Herb Nursery offers 17 that are rose-scented, 12 scented with lemon, 18 scented of fruits and spices, 12 of assorted mints and 13 whose scents are described as "pungent". Other specialists offer a wealth of 60 species and more.
Other options for selling your herbs are nurseries, restaurants, and grocery stores.
On June 30, Nicole Calhoun and horticulturist Loretta Allison will lead a community herb swap at Artemisia Nursery in El Sereno, where medicine makers, backyard gardeners and patio herbalists can bring their fresh, flowering and dried herbs to swap and share.
Top-quality ingredients are sourced daily from all around Britain, from Paris' Rungis market, direct from Italian producers, and from the Nursery's own herb and vegetable gardens, which are overseen by Lucy Gray, daughter of the River Café's Rose Gray.
The nursery will hold an Herb Extravaganza Weekend on Oct. 16 and 17, with herb tables and seminars at 10 a.m. each day, plus a cooking class featuring dishes such as Cuban Adobo Grilled Chicken, Rosemary Shortbread and specialty cocktails like the Basil Gin Fizz.
Flavour is an important criterion for the fruits, herbs and vegetables that the nursery chooses to grow.
Start with plants from local nurseries, greenhouses or herb gardens: they will have plants that are adapted to your area and the expertise to answer most of your questions.
He writes of a herb garden, vegetable garden, and a nursery for maturing fruit trees until they were ready to be transferred to the orchard at the south and east of the house, probably where the orchard is today.
Highlights so far include an Oranges and Lemons garden at the Spitalfields church of nursery rhyme fame, a Medieval Herber planted with odoriferous herbs at the Idler Academy, and an Edible High Road in Chiswick.
