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Home | Plants | Herbs

Herbs

A Natural Home ‘Remedy’ Cabinet

February 25, 2025

With the disruption and confusion over our national health care system this month, we’re more committed than ever to sharing information on how to create your own home ‘farm-acy’. Watch our class schedule for expanded home herb garden and herbal healing classes during the growing season.

Today we’re sharing local herbalist and educator Mitten Lowe’s list of what she keeps in her home remedy cabinet.

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Hawthorn and Tulsi to ease your Gut

December 16, 2024

Sometimes we overdo heavier food and drink during the holidays, and our stomach suffers. Mitten Lowe (our friend and frequent teacher at Harlequin’s Gardens) suggests this easy-to-make Hawthorn and Tulsi vinegar and honey mixture (an oxymel).

We had an abundant harvest of Hawthorn berries at the nursery this fall.   If you have room consider adding a Hawthorn tree to your garden this spring.  [Read More]

Fragrant Lavender and Rosemary, to Plant Now – or to Pot Up!

September 3, 2024

We still have Lavender (Munstead, Buena Vista, Hidcote and Grosso), and if you want to plant them this season, get them this week on sale for 20% off! Any plants left after that will be potted up for next year. Because it is evergreen, newly planted lavender is more sensitive to hard frost than many other hardy perennials, so to give them a chance to establish before very cold weather arrives, plant them NOW. If you garden at an elevation higher than 6,000’, we recommend waiting to plant lavender next spring.

Rosemary ‘Madeline Hill’ is still in stock, and on sale! [Read More]

Benefits of the Beautiful Dandelion

May 2, 2023

Thinking this cheery yellow-flowered plant is a weed? Think again.

First of all, dandelions provide much needed early-season nutrition for the bees. If that wasn’t enough of a reason to let them into your garden,  every part of this plant is good for you. Since ancient times dandelion has been used as a spring tonic. (That’s right, we’re suggesting eating the weeds!).

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Warming Herbal Tea Recipe

December 13, 2022

Herbal Tea

Herbal Teas are some of the best home-grown medicines! This time of year infusions of herbs from Harlequin’s Gardens plants you’ve grown can keep you well, and warm.

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Harvest Guidelines for Vegetable Crops

June 21, 2022

Okay, you prepared your soil and planted your vegetable garden with all kinds of wonderfully flavorful, nutritious foods, you’re watering and watching them grow, and wondering ….. When can I start to eat them, how do I harvest them, and how do I get the most out of these plantings? Here are some tips on vegetable crops harvest timing and techniques that may not be self-evident. Even if you’re a seasoned gardener, you may not be aware of some of these procedures! [Read More]

Recipes for Health as the Season Changes

November 7, 2023

Our friend Mitten Lowe at Journey to Wellness is a fan of bone broth (with actual bones, as well as one that’s vegan) whenever the season changes. What’s more gratifying than taking fresh vegetables and herbs you’ve grown, or bought by supporting our local farmers, and simmering them for a fragrant, nutrient-dense health and spirit builder when the temperatures plummet?

photo courtesy: Garden in the Kitchen

 

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Beet and Nettle Herbal Broth

January 17, 2023

Beet and Nettle Herbal Broth

Beet and Nettle Broth

This mineral-rich, vegan broth offers many of the benefits of traditional bone broth! As we slow down, herbs and plants you grow from Harlequin’s Gardens can nourish you this winter. Many thanks to Mitten Lowe at Journey to Wellness for the recipe. 

 

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Wake up and smell the garlic!

August 25, 2020

It’s time to buy your ‘seed’ garlic, which you should store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place until planting time, from mid-October to mid-November. Seed garlic bulbs are specifically chosen for planting because they are the healthiest bulbs with the largest cloves, and they are intact. By planting the largest cloves, you’ll be rewarded with a harvest of big, juicy bulbs.

Garlic has been cultivated since very ancient times. The varieties that developed in different areas express the terroir of their locale, greatly influencing the local cuisines.[Read More]

Herbs We Carry

September 20, 2019

  • Anise Hyssop
  • Arnica
  • Basil
    • Cinnamon
    • Nufar Genovese
    • Italiano Classico
    • Finissimo Verde a Palla
    • Holy Basil-Tulsi
    • Mrs. Burns Lemon Basil
    • Thai
    • Sweet
  • Borage
  • Calendula
  • Catnip
  • Celery, Cutting
  • Chamomile, Roman
  • Chervil
  • Chives
  • Cilantro
  • Clary Sage
  • Comfrey
  • Dill
  • Fennel
    • Bronze
    • Green
  • Feverfew
  • Garlic Chives
  • Heart’s Ease / Johnny Jump-ups
  • Hops
  • Hyssop
  • Ladies Mantle
  • Lamb’s Ears
  • Lavender
    • Provence
    • Grosso
    • Hidcote
    • Munstead
    • Dwarf
    • Krajova
    • Twickle
  • Lemon Balm
  • Lemon Grass
  • Lemon Verbena
  • Lovage
  • Marjoram, Sweet
  • Marshmallow
  • Meadowsweet
  • Mint
    • Chocolate Peppermint
    • Kentucky Peppermint
    • Spearmint
  • Motherwort
  • Mugwort
  • Nasturtium
  • Nepitella
  • Oregano
    • Dwf. Greek
    • Greek
    • Norton’s Gold
  • Parsley
  • Pennyroyal
  • Pyrethrum
  • Red Clover
  • Rosemary
    • Arp
    • Madeline Hill
    • Irene
    • Tuscan Blue
    • Gorizia
  • Rue
    Sage (culinary)

    • Berggarten
    • Tricolor
    • Golden Variegated
    • Purple
  • Santolina
    • Gray
    • Green
  • Self-Heal
  • Skullcap
  • Stevia
  • Stinging Nettles
  • Summer Savory
  • Sweet Woodruff
  • Tarragon, French
  • Thyme
    • French
    • Caraway
    • Lemon
    • Silver
  • Valerian
  • Vietnamese Coriander
  • Viola
    • Corsican
    • Arkwright Ruby
    • Etain
    • tricolor
  • Winter Savory

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4795 North 26th St
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Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

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Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

JANUARY - FEBRUARY HOURS
Thursday-Saturday, 10AM-4PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.