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Harlequins Gardens

Boulder's specialist in well-adapted plants

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Home | Plants | Herbs

Herbs

Herbs: Culinary and Medicinal

The term ‘herb’ originally derived as a shortening of the phrase ‘herbaceous plant’—a plant that dies back to the ground or to ‘basal foliage’ each year and doesn’t have a woody stem. We’re using the more common and broader usage of plants that have either a culinary or medicinal usage. We carry herbs that do well in our local environments. Many of these plants thrive in a xeriscape setting, in fact most perennial culinary herbs have a richer and stronger flavor when forced to grow in slightly adverse conditions, such as lean soil and reduced water.

Many culinary herbs are easy to grow and reward you well. Using fresh herbs in your culinary endeavors will help take your creations to the next level, bringing the garden onto your plate. Annual herbs like basil do great in the vegetable garden while lavender may be more appropriate in a rock garden or border. With many of the most popular culinary herbs such as basil, lavender, rosemary, sage and thyme we have many different varieties available. Culinary herbs are also well endowed with nutrients and powerful health-promoting phytochemicals and are, in their own right, medicinal. Add to this the healing properties of eating well and feeling connected to the earth through gardening.

Medicinal herbs allow you to further take control of your own welfare. Even without extensive time or knowledge many of these herbs can easily be made into an herbal tea—which having grown yourself inherently tastes better than anything found on a store shelf. Growing medicinal herbs offers you the chance to delve deeper into the ancient wisdom and multiple traditions of herbalism or they can just be enjoyed as beautiful additions in the ornamental landscape. 


  • Anise Hyssop
  • Arnica
  • Basil
    • Cinnamon
    • Nufar Genovese
    • Italiano Classico
    • Greek Spicy Globe
    • Holy Basil-Tulsi
    • Mrs. Burns Lemon Basil
    • Thai
    • Sweet
  • Borage
  • Calendula
  • Calamintha
  • Catnip
  • Celery, Cutting
  • Chamomile, Roman
  • Chervil
  • Chives
  • Cilantro
  • Clary Sage
  • Comfrey
  • Dill
  • Fennel
    • Bronze
    • Green
  • Feverfew
  • Garlic Chives
  • Hairy Mountain Mint – Pycnanthemum
  • Heart’s Ease / Johnny Jump-ups
  • Hops
  • Hyssop
  • Ladies Mantle
  • Lavender
    • Lanata (wooly)
    • Grosso
    • Hidcote
    • Munstead
    • Dwarf
    • Twickel Purple
    • Lisa Marie
    • Wee One
    • Thumbalina Leigh
  • Lemon Balm
  • Lemon Grass
  • Lemon Verbena
  • Lovage
  • Marjoram, Sweet
  • Meadowsweet
  • Mint
    • Chocolate Peppermint
    • Kentucky Peppermint
    • Kentucky Colonel Spearmint
    • Strawberry Mint
    • Apple Mint
    • Grapefruit Mint
    • Orange Mint
  • Motherwort
  • Mugwort
  • Nasturtium
  • Oregano
    • Dwf. Greek
    • Greek
    • Italian
    • Norton’s Gold
  • Parsley
    • Curly
    • Flat-Leaf
    • Giant of Italy
  • Pennyroyal
  • Pyrethrum
  • Red Clover
  • Rosemary
    • Arp
    • Madeline Hill
    • Tuscan Blue
  • Rue
    Sage (culinary)

    • Tricolor
    • “Icatarina’ – Golden Variegated
    • Purple Culinary Sage
  • Santolina
    • Gray
    • Dwarf Gray
    • Green
  • Self-Heal
  • Skullcap
  • Stevia
  • Stinging Nettles
  • Summer Savory
  • Sweet Woodruff
  • Tarragon, French
  • Thyme
    • French Wild
    • German Winter
    • Lemon
    • Silver Lemon
  • Valerian
  • Vietnamese Coriander
  • Viola
    • Corsican
    • Arkwright Ruby
    • Etain
    • tricolor
  • Winter Savory
  • Yerba Mansa

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    • Annuals
    • Bulbs
    • Fruits
    • Groundcovers
    • Herbs
    • Natives
    • Ornamental Grasses
    • Perennials
      • Plants for Pollinators List
    • Roses
    • Vegetables
      • Fall Vegetable Starts
      • Garlic
      • Other Vegetable Starts
      • Pepper Starts
      • Tomato Starts
    • Xeriscape

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Hours by Season

MARCH HOURS
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

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303-939-9403 (Retail)
staff@nullharlequinsgardens.com

4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

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Our Hours

Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

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