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You'll be inundated with baby plants the following year. There are several different types of chives. I have curly, the white-flowered garlic chive and the usual purple flowered variety but there are many others.

Lemon thyme is a nice low-growing plant with purple flowers the bees love. It has a nice lemon scent when rubbed or stepped on. This one creeps along the ground forming a nice mat. Other varieties of Thyme have been used over the century as an antiseptic and decongestant. Heard of Vicks Vaporub? Guess what's in it.

Lavender is great. Not only does it smell and look pretty but it is the perfect guest, a very polite plant, never becoming obnoxious. It does occasionally drop a seed or two making babies but this one I wish was a bit more spreading. If you continually pick the flowers it will grow more for you. Isn't that considerate of it?

Tansy I grow for the wonderful lacy leaves which look great in flower arrangements. It has an unusual scent and grows rather tall, 3-4 feet. It has flat, button-shaped bright yellow flowers which look somewhat like the Ageratum. It supposedly has medicinal uses but as I don't know them I'll just continue to use Tansy leaves for bouquets.

There are some annual herbs like Chamomile and Caraway which tend to reseed reliably making them appear like perennials but they usually grow where they want and give no consideration to where you want them to grow. Just transplant them to where you want them and your herb garden will look great. I hope you will consider putting in an herb garden even if it's just to smell and look at. The bees and butterflies will thank you.

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