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Tulsi bees

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Makrut limes anticipating their final destination as Indian pickles

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Moringa leaves. This year is the best it has ever grown.

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Crepe Myrtle.

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Reposting to keep this pic in the Garden Love thread.

Borage is an excellent pollinator plant, and as a bonus adds a beautiful blue to the garden.

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I am pretty hopeless at keeping these Garden Love posts all in a thread.

Here is the Lemon Verbena I missed adding. I loved hearing from the people who love LV, and how the pic instantly evoked its scent as you brush past it or pick leaves.

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Another plant from my garden - Yarrow. If you look closely you can see a wasp on one of the flowers. Yes, even wasps are welcome in my garden, except the European Wasp. Luckily I see these only rarely.

With many medicinal and some culinary uses, yarrow can also absorb nutrients from the soil and make them available to other plants. I plant it at the end of some of the veggie beds.

I have recently read that it is sometimes added to ferments. I am keen to give it a try, but judiciously as it has a flavour tending on the bitter side.

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I'll be interested to hear what you end up doing with it!

I have a small patch in a partly shaded bed that has stayed about the same size for 20 years

A couple years ago I made the mistake of transplanting some of it to a full sun bed, in order to breed for right pink flowers

It totally took over the bed! Spreading from underground runners, and into an adjacent bed by seed

I had no idea it was so aggressive in sunshine

I now have my pink plants and pots, and have spent a lot of time digging the not so pink plants out of the beds

I tried the tea for cold / flu symptoms once, but it is extremely, extremely bitter. Fermentation might take care of that, but I am allergic to ferments

If you find any other uses for it that work for you, please post!

@NilaJones Interesting. I have some growing in the front but it is much drier there and doesn't do so well. The one in the veggie garden is healthy but not aggressive.

This has a lot of uses, especially medicinal. https://www.herbcottage.com.au/blogs/grow-your-health/yarrow Note the contraindications tho.

Oh, I put the occasional leaf in a garden salad, chopped well. I don't notice the bitterness so much.