Drought Tolerant

This lush green legume can reach 3 feet in height with pretty lavender/blue flowers.  Often grown as a cover crop and a hay crop for livestock, Alfalfa has...

Huang Qi (Yellow leader). This plant is considered one of the foundational Chinese medicinal herbs. A blood building, adaptogenic herb which builds deep...

Rare South African Shrub with red-orange flowers used to treat cancer. An infusion made from the leaves is also a traditional remedy for fevers, chicken...

Has all the same medicinal qualities as regular catnip with a strong citrus flavor. Makes a soothing and tasty tea. Cats who are heavy catnip addicts...

Vitex or Chaste Tree is a drought hardy, deciduous, large shrub. It produces lovely lavender flowers in later summer. Historically this plant is prized for...

Chrysanthemum morifolium. Gong Ju Hua.
This rare cultivar can only be propagated by division and was shared with me by a dear friend, plant lover,...

A medicinal species of this lovely spring bloomer from China. The dried capsules are used to treat fevers, ringworm, scabies, ulcers, abscesses, tumors and...

This selected comfrey Strain Bocking 14 is an excellent selection for a productive strain for the home garden as well as medicinal use. High allantoin...

Comfrey has been used for centuries for healing wounds, ulcers and broken bones. Tea and poultices of leaves or roots are used. Comfrey contains allantoin,...

Curry is a sub-shrub with intensely silver foliage and golden colored flowers. The curry plant's name does result from its curry-like smell, but it is not...

This improved variety has thick leaves and is great as an edible green. Leaves are very high in iron, minerals and arean excellent diuretic while the roots...

Hop Marjoram. This is a lovely plant with soft woolly gray round leaves. Does well in containers on a sunny deck . Used medicinally for toothaches and...

Golden Marguerite, Ox eye Chamomile, May Weed. This sturdy and easy to grow perennial originally from Eastern Europe forms a mound of blue-green serrated...

This species is native to the central plains states. Lovely rosette of narrow, slightly fuzzy leaves with a 3 foot bloom of pretty pale pink/lavender...

Tennessee Purple Coneflower is limited to a small range in SC and TN. It is now listed as a federally endangered species. For this reason it needs to be...

Native to the Alps of Europe, this plant traditionally grows amongst the rocks of high alpine meadows, although it seems to thrive here at a low elevation...

A giant plant with velvety pointed leaves and large yellow flowers. Traditionally used as a respiratory herb, the root is dug after a year or 2 in the fall....

Huge showy yellow flowers 3-6 inches wide open every evening . This type of evening primrose is very low growing about 8 inches tall and not nearly as...

Pretty blue-green pea-like foliage grow in a lush rosette eventually sending up 3 foot stalks with nice blue-violet flower spikes. Traditionally the root is...

Bronze Fennel's feathery Green tinged brown leaves give rise to it's umbel flower which is excellent fodder for many pollinators and beneficial insects. An...